what's up with this meme where if someone's not literally posting their suicide note at the end of the world they must be white? your emotional response of stone cold terror and anxiety is still valid, even if it's not outwardly reflected by every single other person.
Nah you run up in places like Atlanta, New Orleans, and Houston, it won't be fuckin chuds running the show. I'm fairly confident armed right-wing death squads gonna try and hit people in the rural Black Belt in the South, but have real trouble in cities with significant POC and lib populations. They'll try, but you can't run into someone else hood and starting shooting. People will shoot back
Yeah but the worst case scenario is they blockade the cities and starve everyone out. Supplies have to be trucked in daily, if that stops things get real, real quick. That said, I'm not really sure what happens if you have rural militia blockading chokepoints on the highways vs. urban gangs with equipment looted from police precincts. In that scenario I don't think anyone wins except billionaires who own most of the arable land out west.
Nah, rural people need the cities for finished goods, machinery, fertilizer, pesticides, and everything else. The idea that there are still hard-scrabble farmers who could band together an fight off city people is utter bullshit. It's not 1880 anymore, farming is an intensely industrialized and mechanized practice that requires huge amounts of inputs from outside the community. Rural areas simply don't have enough warm bodies to bring in a harvest without mechanization and migrant labor. If they tried to blockade the cities they'd starve before a city with an international airport did.
Where do you think people out in the country get their medicine, fuel, and tech from? Cities. You don't build machine parts out in the middle of fuckin nowhere for local demand. We live in an Amazon-age.
Let the burbs and the countryside go a couple of weeks without insulin, for example, and you'll see people calm the fuck down to get what they need.
The US' largest, most left-leaning cities are on the coasts anyway, and would have easy access to multiple natural harbors that are some of the largest and most navigable ones in the world. I'm not scared about a rural blockade, I'm fuckin scared for my homies stuck deep in Trump country.
Yeah. I am guessing most of the people who think this is super exciting are in a position where they can delete their browsing history, rip down their Che Guevara posters, peel the left wing stickers off their laptop case and keep their heads down if it does kick off.
We're not gonna see brownshirts rounding people up outside perhaps a few rural towns where the biggest armed presence is some weird fucking right wing militia. What we're gonna see are death squads and terror attacks. Those will absolutely target whoever they find who looks different. They won't have the NSA database handy. The kinda people who think this looks entertaining are largely gonna be those much more capable of blending in and keeping their heads down.
I disagree. The militias are going to scrape through all those archived Twitter posts and go around knocking on doors.
They already did that to a city council woman who supported defunding the police. The police doxxed her, gave out her address, and some rwnj went to the wrong door and raped her neighbor saying he was going to teach her a lesson. "I’ve received threatening messages and voicemails from men stating they, ' hoped I didn’t need the police ' when something happened." As if police do fuck all for rape cases to begin with, they don't even test rape kits (wonder how many police officers they're protecting by doing that).
Then there's Portland where those anonymous vans just round people up and disappear them. Great tactic for fascists to copy.
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I like to think that I'm on many people's "good boy" list.
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what's up with this meme where if someone's not literally posting their suicide note at the end of the world they must be white? your emotional response of stone cold terror and anxiety is still valid, even if it's not outwardly reflected by every single other person.
No you see, when fascists take power, historically the white communists have turned out just fine.
Nah you run up in places like Atlanta, New Orleans, and Houston, it won't be fuckin chuds running the show. I'm fairly confident armed right-wing death squads gonna try and hit people in the rural Black Belt in the South, but have real trouble in cities with significant POC and lib populations. They'll try, but you can't run into someone else hood and starting shooting. People will shoot back
Yeah but the worst case scenario is they blockade the cities and starve everyone out. Supplies have to be trucked in daily, if that stops things get real, real quick. That said, I'm not really sure what happens if you have rural militia blockading chokepoints on the highways vs. urban gangs with equipment looted from police precincts. In that scenario I don't think anyone wins except billionaires who own most of the arable land out west.
Nah, rural people need the cities for finished goods, machinery, fertilizer, pesticides, and everything else. The idea that there are still hard-scrabble farmers who could band together an fight off city people is utter bullshit. It's not 1880 anymore, farming is an intensely industrialized and mechanized practice that requires huge amounts of inputs from outside the community. Rural areas simply don't have enough warm bodies to bring in a harvest without mechanization and migrant labor. If they tried to blockade the cities they'd starve before a city with an international airport did.
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Where do you think people out in the country get their medicine, fuel, and tech from? Cities. You don't build machine parts out in the middle of fuckin nowhere for local demand. We live in an Amazon-age.
Let the burbs and the countryside go a couple of weeks without insulin, for example, and you'll see people calm the fuck down to get what they need.
The US' largest, most left-leaning cities are on the coasts anyway, and would have easy access to multiple natural harbors that are some of the largest and most navigable ones in the world. I'm not scared about a rural blockade, I'm fuckin scared for my homies stuck deep in Trump country.
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the material of my own self thoughts
Yeah. I am guessing most of the people who think this is super exciting are in a position where they can delete their browsing history, rip down their Che Guevara posters, peel the left wing stickers off their laptop case and keep their heads down if it does kick off.
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We're not gonna see brownshirts rounding people up outside perhaps a few rural towns where the biggest armed presence is some weird fucking right wing militia. What we're gonna see are death squads and terror attacks. Those will absolutely target whoever they find who looks different. They won't have the NSA database handy. The kinda people who think this looks entertaining are largely gonna be those much more capable of blending in and keeping their heads down.
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I disagree. The militias are going to scrape through all those archived Twitter posts and go around knocking on doors.
They already did that to a city council woman who supported defunding the police. The police doxxed her, gave out her address, and some rwnj went to the wrong door and raped her neighbor saying he was going to teach her a lesson. "I’ve received threatening messages and voicemails from men stating they, ' hoped I didn’t need the police ' when something happened." As if police do fuck all for rape cases to begin with, they don't even test rape kits (wonder how many police officers they're protecting by doing that).
Then there's Portland where those anonymous vans just round people up and disappear them. Great tactic for fascists to copy.