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Trump State Department official has called for mass sterilization of ‘low-IQ trash’
(www.independent.co.uk)
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That's fair, but I think that a non insignificant number of people just don't care. Yes, protests in big cities seem large, but like the other commenter was saying, only 1/3 of people really oppose this. And some of that 1/3 don't oppose it particularly strongly if at all. I know lifelong Rs that luckily didn't vote for Trump, but mostly because he doesn't stand on ceremony. They voted Harris, but they legitimately have no problem with rounding up immigrants and attacks on the LGBT community. Local resistance is just not really possible when 1/3 of your neighbors have trump flags in their yard, 1/3 think your resistance is stupid and maybe 25% of the remaining 1/3 care enough to join some of the time. How do you do a work stoppage if only 1/12 of your colleagues would even consider it. I'm not saying resistance is futile, but I don't think it's about the wage slave issue as much as it is that there's no real public will to stop this. Wage slave issue is of course still a problem and likely contributing factor.
Stop trying to talk yourself out of doing something. You clearly believe that something needs to be done so do whatever you can to move us in a positive direction. I'm not saying you're wrong but every time we say stuff like this we help the people hearing it feel more justified in doing less. Let others come up with their own reasons for inaction and work hard to overcome your own.
I'm not talking myself out of doing anything and I am actively doing what I can. I also specifically said that resistance isn't futile. We should all do what we can, but not talking about the problem, especially when other leftists are openly and actively acknowledging it, just leads to the pic above of feeling like their experience is the problem. Their experience is not the problem and they are not crazy. Unfortunately, there are a lot of fascists around. That fact is important to acknowledge because it really does change the kind of resistance that works.
I know the infighting meme is old at this point, but I'm not sure what you're trying to accomplish with this comment, but it comes off as obnoxious (to me) and we need less of that. I'm not posting doomer rhetoric. I'm acknowledging a truth already acknowledged in this thread. I don't need a random leftist telling me to work hard to overcome reasons for inaction. I already organize locally. Acknowledging that there's just only so much you can do and it's ok to work in that framework can be helpful.
That's exactly what it sounded like, which is why my reply was worded from that perspective. You may not have intended it to be read that way but it does to me.