Tofutefisk

as others have mentioned - join a revolutionary org and get to know your neighbors.

also - learn about leftist prep/survival. not even remotely the same as what those right wing doomsday preppers have been up to.

things will get a lot worse. we are not likely to see better days. but keep in mind that what we do now can make possible for future generations to have a fighting chance to build a better society. we have to keep one another alive so they can have that.

i love the way so many people want to hold up the Third Reich as the standard for fascist evil that must be perfectly matched or else it’s just not bad enough. jk i don’t love it.

the Nazis took inspiration from U.S. treatment of Natives and Black ppl. in fact, some high ranking Nazis thought the U.S. took it a bit too far.

there are mass forced sterilizations going on in the U.S. all the time - i say “all the time” because it’s safe to assume that a very small percentage of these ops are ever brought to public attention, yet there are still a lot of them. in 2020, a whistleblower reported mass sterilizations at an ICE detention facility (concentration camp). in 2013 (i think), the California prison system was caught doing it to incarcerated women. in many states, it’s perfectly legal to sterilize disabled women and girls against their will. and while it’s definitely NOT legal, poor women are sterilized against their will by their doctors pretty much daily - eugenics is the basis of our healthcare system and our doctors lean heavily fash, just like they did in Nazi Germany. that’s because they are cut from the same cloth.

in the U.S., the repression of disabled people, homeless people, people who use drugs, and incarcerated people has long since reached the extermination phase. but somehow even that is not bad enough for y’all. most Americans either don’t see it or they think it’s good.

Congratulations on discovering the morose whining of Morrissey. He’s a run-of-the-mill self-important right wing douchebag. But as someone who has been listening to the same songs for 30 years (including lots of Morrissey), i went almost my whole life having no info on who the guy is as a person, which is true of all the musicians and other popular artists whose work i consume. i’ve just never really been interested in that stuff.

then as i was spending more time in online leftist spaces, i started finding myself under attack for mentioning my enjoyment of particular songs or movies due to an artist’s demonstrated lack of character and/or crap right wing political beliefs. these artists’ stated beliefs/actions are not good and they do matter, and while thoughtful discussions around “death of the artist” and what not are warranted (and desperately needed), that is not what’s happening most of the time. what i see is pretty much just replication of neoliberal individualism.

People compete for social status by calling out others as a means of establishing their ideological superiority. it severely undermines solidarity and only serves to reward those neoliberal individualist tendencies that we really need to be focused on unlearning - and that can only happen when we embrace nuance and acknowledge that this is a complex issue, people are complex, art is complex, and so is the social context that shapes our character, values, and principles. for example, how many of us have taken into consideration the ways consumerism has shaped our understanding of what it means to be “political?”

that’s just my .02 cents or .72 cents or whatever lol