New Mexico: Failed election candidate paid me to shoot officials, gunman says
New Mexico: Failed election candidate paid me to shoot officials, gunman says
A man in the US state of New Mexico has pleaded guilty to helping a defeated Republican candidate carry out drive-by shootings at the home of Democrats.
The defendant, Demetrio Trujillo, says the candidate, Solomon Peña, hired him after failing to win a seat in the state legislature in November 2022.
Over the following weeks, the residences of several Democratic officials were attacked in Albuquerque.
This stuff should ring alarm bells for anyone who studied history, because these are 1920s/1930s Germany-style micro movements.
Naziism didn't start with the Final Solution. It didn't start with work camps. It didn't even start with the beer Hall putsch. It started with things like this.
For sure. But what do we do?
In Germany, they can ban extremist parties as a result of historic events. That's what under consideration with the AfD. The US could persue the same route, although it is probably harder in a two-party system.
Overall I’m not sure. But it sure would be nice if news channels were required to tell the truth or be held accountable if creating and spreading lies which indoctrinate people into actions like this.
They're gonna hate me for this one but arm yourself and train. Lets take a hypothetical to the endgame, lets say there are nazi style brownshirts roaming the streets in 10 years time, do you think it would be better to be unarmed with strong gun control, or like me do you think at least half of the roughly 400 million guns that already are here would end up in the brownshirts hands anyway?
Start punching Nazis at any opportunity, when you see someone punching a Nazi, look the other way.
Did you figure out any solutions while in the delta quadrant?
But seriously. A very good question. Last time, the fascist uprise that was also starting in the US (yes, it was becoming very popular here in the 1930s) leading up to WWII was quelled after Pearl Harbor and we joined the war.
I don't really want to have to have a world war again to stop fascism. Why can't we fucking learn from history?
Although, as you know, after WWIII, we did then get warp drive. So...
There is a good book on modern fascism Fascism Today: What It Is and How to End It (excepts)
There is liberal anti fascist action (e.g. suing them, petitions, boycotts) and autonomous anti fascist action (less polite). The latter isn't about violence, but to disrupt fascist events. The strategy is to prevent them from recruiting - prevent them from speaking because we know that clever fascist speech and their lies can lead to recruitment.
Be prepared to kill Nazis if it comes down to it. But try every possible democratic solution prior to it.
The biggest part is simply voting and talking to people who will listen to you to vote.
Acknowledge and learn. Vote with conscience and pragmatism.