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If you're in the US and ever wondered what you'd have done in Nazi Germany as shit devolved, you're finding out now.
May she be released and live life fully.
Pretty sure I wouldn't have done a single thing about the situation there if I'd lived in Nazi Germany. At most I would have been personally opposed to it, maybe, but I certainly wouldn't have taken any action and probably wouldn't have even mentioned my thoughts to anyone if I was. Those are dangerous things to try and difficult conversations to have. Much easier to just keep on living my comfortable little life. I don't live in the USA either so can't do anything there but still probably wouldn't if I did.
Am I proud of that? No, but that's how it is and would be for the majority of people I imagine.
I mean what are we supposed to do?
I'm working class. I live paycheck to paycheck. I don't have much charisma. I do my best to raise awareness among my peers, with little success. I voted. I support organizing, but unless the strike happens on a weekend I'll be looking at homelessness.
I'm thinking of just going blackout on media, because the constant barrage of the encroaching fascism has wreaked my mental health. I know where this is all heading, and I feel powerless to stop it. I'm a victim of the whims of history. Does that play into the fascist hands? Absolutely. What the fuck else am I supposed to do? Throw my life away in a suicidal attempt at positive change that has a incredibly small chance of success? I need to have a few less things to lose before I'm at that point.
I see people all over social media asking, why aren't you doing anything? Where's our next Luigi? Acting like their provocative online discourse makes them into some revolutionary badass. Well... what the fuck are you doing?