Well many seem to think that ‘real threats’ includes smashing fashion store windows and throwing bricks at lackeys in uniforms. Performative violence is just story building material for those who control the narrative.

Effective violence is directed surgically at assets, or at processes and procedures. That means sabotage that costs the oligarchs and not small business, vandalism that makes you think, disruption of the trickle up effect, and personal fear for individuals ONLY after the other escalations.

Of course in the USA the ammosexuals are pushing cart before horse and people are dying for the news cycle.

Oh, out west we called it the Flu Trux Klan

Sad tragedy, lack of support. My brother was lucky enough to get help from conscientious objection groups and get out before being haunted by the decision.

“Pardon our noise! It’s the sound of Freedom jetliners”

He’s a TV Talibangelist

User LemmyKnowsBest publicly claims that all laws are just, fair, and reasonable.

Dude, now you’re making it personal with totally the wrong person. What a dork.

Yes, this is all self-evident to anyone who recognizes overconsumption and premature or planned obsolescence.

My point is that advertising and other misinformation makes it extremely difficult for the average person to make rational decisions about technical issues when making purchases, so blame lies much more with companies, governments, and culture than the teeming hordes you look smugly down on.

Oh yes, advertising doesn’t work, which is why it’s fucking everywhere

Similar shit happened in Indonesia after the genocide. People had to go back to being neighbours with somewhat typical people who were former state sanctioned serial killers and enablers. Germany tried to deprogram the youth in the '50s, but yeah. Didn’t stick, for various reasons. Harsh reality.

Still, no society has recovered from fascist or similar regimes without at least some targeted pruning of the tree of life. Putin SHOULD obsess about what happened to Gaddafi and the like. Society has to remember or, well, here we are again.

Well, you have done a lot of of the things that you need to do, and that are the simplest basis of civic responsibility. Don’t let people troll you down.

It is sad that it is not immediately apparent to Americans that what they need to do is organize as much as possible and develop civil society because it has been gutted.

Simply finding ways to educate yourself and others about what has been stolen from you and how you can get it back is absolutely necessary if you are ever going to solve this problem. One form of light organizing is a study group, which can quickly lead to more effective substantive action, or simply joining a civic service organization like food not bombs or similar offers a toe hold on getting going.

Arrr, we had the ships and sailors back then to make yer dreams come true, matey!

Yes, the individualistic choice is always there, if you can afford it, and manage relationships. Especially if you’re an early target of fascism (in its end, though, everything is a target).

Looks like Rich is back on the menu!

Ah, the ol’ Ghadaffi.

Fascists hate this one trick…

They are just using it as a synonym for “collapse”. So end times for getting coffee and black pepper, I guess. And good antibiotics.

Happy medium: educate and organize, in preparation for the moment.

Economic power is the basis of all the megaviolence. General strikes recuperate the true source of the power: worker productivity. Do it now before automation makes it moot.

Or, you know, kick the bastards out, and close all the authoritarian loopholes. More democracy, stop subsidizing the fuck out of the rich, move that to education and research. Mandate empiricism in governance.

End US imperialism in favour of multilateral partnerships, especially around the 800 or so military bases in other countries, or else that shit returns home and gets used on Americans. The ship has sailed on being the one superpower. Adapt and evolve.

Myself, I favour smaller polities wherever possible, but given the current lack of an egalitarian basis to start from, breaking the states into countries will be a feast for the oligarchs.

Not in everyday conversation, no. In an accurate analysis, they make a useful distinction, yes.