we would still lose hilariously because we don’t have drones, missiles, helicopters, or tanks.
Those alone don't win wars, the USA's military history is more than enough evidence of that, not to mention guerilla movements in other countries past and present. I'm not trivializing their power either, but when we're talking about resistance rather than the idealistic 2A government overthrow fantasy, it's important not to simply assume that the state's technological advantage makes any armed resistance futile.
What am i, one unaffiliated person, going to do against a tyrannical government?
Affiliate.
No serious struggle can be resisted alone. Organizing is necessary, this is especially clear when looking at groups which successfully resisted fascist invasion.
Any general strike attempt will need to have some support from unions or similar groups with influence among large parts of essential industries. While there is a nice starting list of partners there, I don't yet see the kind of big names necessary for an effective general strike, especially a country-wide one.
I hope the organizers are seriously reaching out to large established organizations.
I only ever used Proton for a few secondary email accounts (compartmentalizing between personal and online) and I started transitioning shortly before they got in the news for statements.
My main problem was that I realized that I couldn't use email forwarding (or at least without paying for a plan, I forget), and I couldn't manually handle it with a third-party client without paying for their bridge, so unless I wanted to have to open and log in to an old email address for the rest of my life, I basically had to pay to deprecate an email address or move to another provider without risking any future emails to the protonmail address being lost, and I wasn't in a position where paying was an option for those addresses. Now I only register single-use throwaways on Protonmail (despite their efforts to detect and stop it).
It's funny to me how often we (I've been guilty of this) look at satire and think how amazingly they predicted the future, when they were really just commenting on their present and maybe extrapolating a little bit.
I wonder if Wag the Dog nearly mirroring the Clinton–Lewinsky scandal one month later counts.
because nazis are often down for the idea of a fascist ethnostate
There's a very striking historical picture of a Nation of Islam summit in the US (while Malcolm X was still a member), and in the audience, front and center, is the American Nazi Party leader George Lincoln Rockwell, flanked by two other members with armbands and everything. Rockwell was there because, despite the obvious ideological tensions, both groups ultimately saw common cause on separatism.
Zionism benefits from making Jewish people feel that they are unwelcome outside of the Zionist ethnostate. Nazis want Jewish people to be gone, and them leaving for the Zionist Regime is a realistic and legal option for them. Real antisemitism benefits both these horrible movements.
What does 'fully communist' or 'fully capitalist' even mean? These are modes of production and schools of thought, not scales where something can be more capitalist or less capitalist.
Honestly I don't even think most realize how batshit disturbing it is for other countries to hear about their Pledge of Allegiance. Absolute North Korea levels of nationalism worship.
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Speak for yourself, friend!