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Resist: It's Time
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We are still in this together, but "this" is going to be real different in the very near future. This demands a different kind of "we."
The French Resistance during Nazi occupation played important roles delivering downed Allied airmen back to safety, supplying military intelligence, and acts of sabotage.
The Underground Railroad is estimated to have brought 100,000 freedom seekers to safety between 1810 and 1850.
It's time.
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How do you think those protections were won in other countries? Indeed those few that are in America? By asking nicely? By quietly waiting through six months of the demolition of rule of law and any form of backing for the little protections you do have?
Your comment belongs on X, with the other variations on "No, it's fine, just sit there, eventually the right date to express your dissatisfaction in a completely safe and risk-free way will come around and your children will thank you that you didnt risk your mortgage even if they express it mainly by sterilising themselves so they never have to be so beholden to a future that will never come as you were."
You're kidding right? You know most of "those people" without protections you speak of are going to be targeted next. First they come for the trans and gays and the disabled and sick. No worries. That's not me. Then they come for the poor and the brown. That's all good that's not me either.
Then they come for you. Oops.
Those workers without protections won't have jobs soon enough. The world outside of your little American bubble is making sure of that. Question is
Will you fight then?
Yes it will. Raising awareness by protesting absolutely helps people. It builds community. What many places are sorely lacking right now and desperately in need of. People need to meet one another again to care about them. Going through things together helps people relate to one another. Suddenly someone with more offers it to someone with less because they've had the same experience. Protesting and holding signs absolutely helps. Being defeatist and insisting any sign of resistance isn't resistance is just playing into the hands of the regime that controls the country.
Cause right now it's quite obvious from the outside that very limited numbers even give a shit about anyone or anything but themselves.