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ID: line drawing of an upright bunny with a black bandana tied around their neck, holding a lit match in their mouth like you might a toothpick. The text says “we can’t just vote fascism away, the time has come to disobey. (be brave!)”
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Everyone’s fantasy of armed and organized leftist resistance would’ve been a lot easier to do without right-wing extremists in control of the federal government.
If you are organizing publicly online, they aren’t going to just sit back, they are going to come for you.
This is going to be a repeat of iran in '79. Leftists will be wiped out.
Organizing gives them a way to find you. Act alone, together.
We have at methods of decentralized encrypted communication. There are ways to organize securely.
Just a warning, and I’m hoping we never get to this point, but you’re wrong. The issue isn’t that the technology doesn’t work. The issue is the more people in the loop the easier it is to infiltrate. If you’re organizing to do crime, communicate as little of it as possible, even if it’s encrypted. The encryption only protects the message from being seen by outsiders and doesn’t prevent an insider from being a spy.
We could have voted it away. And it would have been way easier than the alternatives. But we chose not to.
But since we didn’t organize to vote it away, I’m not sure how we’re going to organize a general strike. And anything else is so difficult and so messy and has very little guarantee of improving anyone’s conditions.
I still have hope that we will have a democracy in 4 years. We’ll see how it goes. It might be time to get a firearm and start putting in some range time.
the range time alone is worth doing.
This is why I agree with Republicans on guns rights. They won’t give up their guns so fuck it, give me one too.
Too bad this took thirty years to figure out, and is essentially now too late to reverse course.
Cali and New York have fucked themselves too deep with gun control laws that only affect poor people (Luigi Mangione is a wealthy tech bro who can afford to buy a 3D printer and time off from working to research and purchase firearms parts and then hunt and kill a CEO).
A retired cop can legally buy the latest Gen 5 Glock or brand new ergonomic AR-15 any day he wants for life, but for anyone else that wants to do the same can go fuck themselves by being stuck with shitty Gen 3 Glocks and old wooden bolt-action pieces of shit .22 caliber varmint rifles from the first World War that are prone to misfiring and not ergonomic to safely operate, according to California laws for example. Why? Why the fuck does a retired cop get more rights than you? They are just a regular person like you. Fuck these laws written and voted by ignorant scared dipshits.
I’m still feeling bitter and a fast food place last night asked me to tip, so it got me thinking that maybe this is the time to push out tipping culture. If the country wants the party of “fuck you, I got mine”, then fight your own battles for your wage.
Legally, if they don’t make minimum wage through tips then the employer has to make up the difference (in practice this likely doesn’t happen). Maybe it will make them care more about the minimum wage if it affects them.
I can see where you’re coming from in theory, but if we rely on employers to treat employees fairly we’ll be waiting a long time (they’re already demonstrating that they would rather ignore the law and potentially face a minor fine, than pay the minimum wage), and the only ones who will suffer will be the sub-minimum wage employees who now aren’t getting that tip either.
You make people care by building solidarity with them, not by using them as a bargaining chip.
If wait staff stop getting tips, eventually they will strike or quit and the restaurants will have to change their model. My solidarity exists that if they strike then I won’t shop there until they agree to a compromise. I don’t see how the existence of the US’s unique tipping culture is our responsibility.
So your solution is to starve those already struggling, instead of support them and together taking the fight directly to the employer, or even better, to the political establishment?
That’s a really gross and privileged take. Do the people in your vicinity a favour and don’t eat out, they don’t deserve to have to wait on someone who would rather see them starve before offering any support or even solidarity.
E: I’ve got it now - yours is the liberal version of pull yourself up by your bootstraps.
That is fighting with the employer. Tipping is what the employers want. That’s why my idea of “disobeying” was that this is when the movement to end US tipping culture makes sense. Europe has restaurants and they don’t have a tipping culture.
I don’t get why if I don’t tip that I’m the one starving the employee, and not the employer.
