ID: line drawing of an upright bunny with a black bandana tied around their neck, holding a lit match in their mouth like you might a toothpick. The text says “we can’t just vote fascism away, the time has come to disobey. (be brave!)”

  • kandoh@reddthat.comEnglish
    9·
    2 hours ago

    Everyone’s fantasy of armed and organized leftist resistance would’ve been a lot easier to do without right-wing extremists in control of the federal government.

    If you are organizing publicly online, they aren’t going to just sit back, they are going to come for you.

    This is going to be a repeat of iran in '79. Leftists will be wiped out.

  • deaf_fish@lemm.eeEnglish
    8·
    4 hours ago

    I still have hope that we will have a democracy in 4 years. We’ll see how it goes. It might be time to get a firearm and start putting in some range time.

    • nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      4·
      1 hour ago

      I still have hope that we will have a democracy in 4 years.

      This is what people, both libs and “teach the dems” non-voters don’t seem to be getting: that’s not how facism works. Even if it were the case, at minimum, the courts are captured for the rest of anyone currently living’s life. That’s done.

    • Bytemeister@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      4 hours ago

      Also do these other things… Read a few books on guerrilla warfare and tactics.

      Learn to sew

      Learn to operate a radio

      Grow your own food

      Generate your own power

      Fascists government are going to target your comfort and communication in order to enforce compliance.

  • Euphorazine@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    5 hours ago

    I’m still feeling bitter and a fast food place last night asked me to tip, so it got me thinking that maybe this is the time to push out tipping culture. If the country wants the party of “fuck you, I got mine”, then fight your own battles for your wage.

    Legally, if they don’t make minimum wage through tips then the employer has to make up the difference (in practice this likely doesn’t happen). Maybe it will make them care more about the minimum wage if it affects them.

    • squid_slime@lemm.eeMEnglish
      6·
      4 hours ago

      instead i would say you could tip and hand out union material now that would really fuck the rulling class off.

    • ShareMySims@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      6·
      5 hours ago

      I can see where you’re coming from in theory, but if we rely on employers to treat employees fairly we’ll be waiting a long time (they’re already demonstrating that they would rather ignore the law and potentially face a minor fine, than pay the minimum wage), and the only ones who will suffer will be the sub-minimum wage employees who now aren’t getting that tip either.

      You make people care by building solidarity with them, not by using them as a bargaining chip.

      • Euphorazine@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 hours ago

        If wait staff stop getting tips, eventually they will strike or quit and the restaurants will have to change their model. My solidarity exists that if they strike then I won’t shop there until they agree to a compromise. I don’t see how the existence of the US’s unique tipping culture is our responsibility.

        • ShareMySims@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
          1·
          1 hour ago

          So your solution is to starve those already struggling, instead of support them and together taking the fight directly to the employer, or even better, to the political establishment?

          That’s a really gross and privileged take. Do the people in your vicinity a favour and don’t eat out, they don’t deserve to have to wait on someone who would rather see them starve before offering any support or even solidarity.

          E: I’ve got it now - yours is the liberal version of pull yourself up by your bootstraps.

          • Euphorazine@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            1 hour ago

            That is fighting with the employer. Tipping is what the employers want. That’s why my idea of “disobeying” was that this is when the movement to end US tipping culture makes sense. Europe has restaurants and they don’t have a tipping culture.

            I don’t get why if I don’t tip that I’m the one starving the employee, and not the employer.

    • TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.comEnglish
      1·
      4 hours ago

      The cashier making MacMinimum Wage needs your political throttling ?

      They are your emotional pawn because you look down at them being poor ?

      What a great Democrat you turned out to be. You could run for president with that kind of attitude.

      • Euphorazine@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 hours ago

        They aren’t a political pawn. This is what we want. This is what we voted for. It’s not my responsibility to pay their wages. If they don’t like their compensation, they can strike or look elsewhere for employment. Clearly trying to push for better compensation through law isn’t going to work.

  • Zachariah@lemmy.worldEnglish
    43·
    8 hours ago

    We could have voted it away. And it would have been way easier than the alternatives. But we chose not to.

    But since we didn’t organize to vote it away, I’m not sure how we’re going to organize a general strike. And anything else is so difficult and so messy and has very little guarantee of improving anyone’s conditions.

    • ShareMySims@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      19·
      7 hours ago

      We could have voted it away.

      Lmfao, news flash: it’s already here, has been for a while.

      Never mind that never in history has tyranny ever been voted away. To think otherwise you must completely misunderstand what tyranny and fascism are, as well as how the current establishment functions.

      • Perhapsjustsniffit@lemmy.caEnglish
        7·
        6 hours ago

        Vote it away. It’s been a joke for so long and people cling to the idea that it works so badly. I am Canadian. We are also past voting. The systems of government must be torn down. They are corrupt and do not work for the people.

        • ShareMySims@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
          5·
          6 hours ago

          Hear hear…

          I’m in the UK and we have the same situation + monarchy, for added funsies. I keep thinking people are getting enough of a glimpse behind the curtain at the fact that the system wasn’t designed to serve them, but to centralise power in the hands of very few people who exploit the rest to continuously strengthen their own power, but part of those efforts are the propaganda, and it just goes to show how well it works that despite so much ugly truth being revealed over and over, some people still see “my team vs your team” as the only way to exist. It’s both sad and very scary.

              • squid_slime@lemm.eeMEnglish
                2·
                3 hours ago

                Sick I attend a local anarchist group called radical learning based in devon.

                Solidarity comrade.

                • ShareMySims@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
                  1·
                  3 hours ago

                  Solidarity!

                  I just looked up that group, I’m assuming this is it? I’ve only skimmed the page and will give it a good read in a bit, but that’s really fucking cool, I wish I wasn’t hundreds of miles away lol but it’s always good to see leftists organising in this country! I’m in the process of moving, not sure exactly where to yet, but once that’s happened I’m hoping to find some anarchist and communist folks locally to wherever I am, having that kind of community is so valuable.

    • Smith6826@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      10·
      8 hours ago

      We could have voted it away.

      Don’t forget gerrymandering and other fraudulent methods of deciding victory like the electoral college being baked into this diseased system.

      They only give the illusion of choice.

  • penguinsAreRapists@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    5 hours ago

    Fuck these fuckin’ fascists (Fuck these fascists) Fuck their family and friends (And their friends) If they defend a fuckin’ fascist (Their ancestors) They can fuck off 'til they’re dead (And all their kids)

    • Miles O'Brien@startrek.websiteEnglish
      12·
      8 hours ago

      They used to own tons, but sadly since the boating mishap, they’re all at scattered at the bottom of a really deep lake.

      Who would have thought that bringing every single one of your legally purchased firearms onto a small boat to show them the world would be a bad idea?

      Oh well, no need to look for them.

        • Miles O'Brien@startrek.websiteEnglish
          6·
          5 hours ago

          It’s just a joke about how people “don’t have any guns” because they lost them. Not stolen because they would have to report that. They’re somewhere unreachable that you technically COULD verify, but likely wouldn’t unless there’s a very specific (usually requiring a warrant to get people to move) reason.

          So “boating accident” is to goto joke accident. Nobody would actually believe you if you said that to a cop, judge, or courtroom.

    • SashaEnglish
      7·
      8 hours ago

      No idea about the bunny, but his friends in Vermont have a bunch