Wandering Adventure Party

"The correct response to Dachau was not better training for the guards."

We have an IMPORTANT WINDOW HERE.

Things are getting bad enough that ordinarily complacent people are getting nervous. More people are starting to notice the signs and recognize concentration camps for what they are. This is not a drill.

We still have ENOUGH freedom and internet capability that we can reasonably look up and find information about how this works, and what other people have done about it before. The botslop hasn't eaten it yet. Our access is still there-- although the system is probably ALREADY trying to keep track of who's searching it up and who's reading what books/websites, they aren't fully stopping us from reaching the information. (Yet.)

There are TWO things that could happen next:

1-- Full Fash: Elections get canceled, the hammer comes down, things get really ugly really fast.

2-- Diet Fash: Republicans pratfall on their faces, some grinning limousine neoliberal Democrats swoop in smiling, they promise things will get back to "normal", and things simmer back down to the miserable grind where we watch our healthcare and wages shrivel while the sky gets angrier.

EITHER WAY, the concentration camps will keep getting built bigger, and our access to information will continue to get worse. Option 2 doesn't mean it's over-- it means they're going to catch their breath and try again.

We're not gonna get through to the other side of this until most of us get upset enough to get used to the idea of showing up the way Minneapolis has been doing lately. That's the level of involvement needed, the energy. The system is going to watch our reactions and be trying to get ready to counter it better next time, trying to figure out how to drain our energy and make it harder to muster or maintain it.

The Obama/Harris/Newsom types are NOT going to put the brakes on that power. They'd be in no more hurry to close Dachau than Guantanimo. Get it? And don't give me that, "aww but they're trying so hard" shit. No. See Minneapolis? That's what resistance looks like. It's not strongly worded letters, grandstanding, or handwringing excuses. The Democratic Party leadership aren't just cowards, but traitors actively collaborating with the nightmare.

Look at what the people in Minneapolis are doing. Figure how to carry that feeling of being FED UP close at hand and ready to deploy. Learn as much as you can while the information window is still open. The main lesson of history, as I see it, is: people should freak out and stand up for what's right harder, sooner, and more often.

@inthehands https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/115991953783115796

@inthehands

It's kinda the same, in the way a hatching coccoon of a hideous bloodsucking monster is the same as its hideous bloodsucking larva. Same species, different stage.

It's been incubating. The larva was smaller, and not as often biting at white skin-- but it was a sign, proof, of awful things left unchecked and hungrily growing stronger. It's accelerating, getting bolder and testing where it has or hasn't built up enough political and social infrastructure to bring the hammer down in earnest.

And it has a great many nests and a great many stinging tentacles.

@octorine @ShadowJonathan

David Graeber wrote a book about this, called "Bullshit Jobs"

@ShadowJonathan

Obsessive weirdos with extremely niche special interests MUST BE SPONSORED.

Who ELSE is going to do that work, if not the person who was born to do it?

There are enough people, and enough resources. There is no excuse not to do this.

@Ultraverified @amerpie

That IS being a radical. That's why they shot him.

@artemis

A friend of mine keeps pointing out the various police officials who have been speaking out and objecting to this as a "bad shooting" and I'm like, what, unlike the thousands of shootings of unarmed fleeing people that were happening BEFORE this big ICE fiasco? Now we're supposed to think regular cops are the good guys, just because the feds sent out someone even worse?

If all this newly fomenting outrage gets funneled down into "thank heavens once we get rid of ICE we can get back to normal, lalala" my brain is going to implode.