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Just don't do anything that'll raise attention to your opposition to fascism, tho

Right - frankly I only have a dbzer0 account because I thought the general vibe was less factional than .world or sht.justworks, it's surprising me that so many people seem to be loosing the forest for the trees on this.

There are very few other FOSS projects that I use every single day, and I don't hesitate supporting any of them even though I have no idea what their personal views on worker liberation or trans rights are. I'm quite confident that I align more with the ML lemmy devs politically than most of the other FOSS project developers I interact with, and not because I agree with them on the use of state power or trans exclusion.

Anyway, Nutomic is saying there are support links you can donate through that do not go towards the ml server costs - I recommend anyone who's using lemmy and has an issue with the .ml political views donate through those instead of throwing the baby out with the bathwater by boycotting the platform they're enjoying.

Ok but also lowkey fuck america

this feels more like an endorsement for donating than an indictment.

• just from context, I can gather that this is discussing Hila Kline of the H3 podcast, and I think it's kind of wild that anyone would still be trying to claim that her attitude about her illegal activities while serving in the IDF is anything other than pride, or at a minimum defense. "She's literally never said those words" isn't really a defense when plenty of other (far braver) ex-IDF soldiers have come forward to comment on their own regret of participating in war crimes and genocide, even if they had no knowledge of their illegality at the time. Hila herself acknowledges this as a genocide (at least, she acknowledges the administration as genocidal), so I'm not sure why else she wouldn't address that accusation if not because she feels proud of her service.

• The comment you're highlighting isn't even close to supporting calls to the death of all americans, and in fact I think the sentiment it's expressing is the bare-minimum acknowledgement americans should have for their country's origin. Maybe you just find it uncomfortable being confronted by reality, but it's a factual statement to say the US is a settler-colonial state, and we are all settler-colonists. I don't see any problem with acknowledging that as a verifiable statement.

I feel like someone on an anarchist instance should be able to at least acknowledge the past and current crimes of their imperialist nation state of origin without feeling personally threatened about it.

Tell people they’re being oppressed, they’ll become defensive, then frustrated opposition will retaliate against their fallacies, and it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Religion becomes more important than education, and the government gains more control over the people.

If you're suggesting that even just pointing to existing oppression is going to lead to this 'self-fulfilling prophesy', then I think we have very different definitions of 'complacency' and 'smart'.

That is a hell of a conflation, between vocal opposition to fascism and a fucking assassination attempt.

No, I don't think anyone here is advocating suicide by amateur assassin cosplay. Even just dispassionately calling this as it is will be held up as 'dangerous' - it's not at all about the optics.

If all you're doing is just waiting for your next opportunity to cast a ballot, you've already lost.

Maybe if they're alpha and lose their woke reputation they won't need those crazies who are demanding them to do something 'meaningful'

Don't worry guys, this will surely create blowback next election and a liberal can be back in charge

There have always been liberal collaborators to fascism, this isn't new.

Lmfao

Any small act of retaliation will be blown out of proportion on Fox News.

Any act at all with be turned into reactionary fodder.

You're looking right at a huge symptom of the problem but not seeing how deep the crisis is.

Electoralism cannot save us from fascism.

Your anger gives them power.

So does complacency.