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Hypothetical is doing some heavy lifting here. ๐Ÿ˜‰

If you could get close to a hated fascist politician, what would you do?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Haha. I was really asking about legal ways to make them uncomfortable

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I figured lol, I was just being silly

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

But yeahโ€ฆ without giving it away I probably could get close enough to do bad things in Minecraft but Iโ€™m not ready for that right now lol

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Trust me we feel you, its just risky to talk about these things in online spaces. I did something similar and was told to keep it offline for opsec reasons. I recommend you do the same comrade, we are not anonymous here.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Talking about Minecraft, clearly.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh no my hundred-pounds-of-c4 vest no don't detonate

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I know theoretically I wouldnโ€™t even feel it but the idea of dying by being blown up terrifies me

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You do what you would do anyway: organize, build community, build dual power, undermine the state. Any specific politician doesn't matter. The right will pull the rug out from under people, they'll do whatever evil thing they're gonna do, but the left will set up the rug in the first place and give people a false sense of hope.

Authoritarianism is bad at disasters. The more autocraric, the worse they are at responding to dynamic environments. Build mutual aid networks, support people targeted by the state, prepare (collectively) for the collapse or withdrawal of the state.

It never mattered which puppet is pulling the levers, or how authoritarian or not a society is, the assignment has always been the same. If you don't have the groundwork of dual power, any more radical action is just asthetic.

Edit: IMHO, the two most important things to organize around are anti-police terror and disaster preparedness. Authoritarianism is only tenable if the community believes that having the police is better than abolishing them. In times of crisis the state withdrawals. If people can provide for their own needs, they see proof that the state is unnecessary. Make the state unnecessary, there will be a crisis.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

You can't even be bothered to vote, who are you kidding with this?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I would not get close. No good to me could come of it.