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i just... am so sick of these posts that are like "Just a reminder that it's OK to do nothing and take care of you and your own" like holy shit can you imagine saying that to the "Good Germans" during the lead up to the holocaust??? Can you please imagine how it feels to see "it's OK to do Nothing" to people whose lives and families are being affected by this??? It's not OK to do Nothing. That's called being complicit. the Good Germans didn't even KNOW about what was happening. We Do.

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eena meena me 2 weeks ago

@shel ufff… i'm sorry, but, ufff… a lot of people knew https://www.zeit.de/2011/26/Nationalsozialismus-Tagebuecher and of course this is cut short >_>

Neu entdecktes Tagebuch: Jeder konnte es wissen

Ein Jahrhundert-Dokument: Von 1939 bis 1945 führte Friedrich Kellner, ein kleiner Justizbeamter in der hessischen Provinz, sein politisches Tagebuch. Es zeigt, wie viel der Normalbürger von den Verbrechen des NS-Regimes mitbekam. Jetzt wird Kellners Journal erstmals veröffentlicht.

^www.zeit.de

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So-Shel-ist 2 weeks ago

@meena they didn't have video and audio of the camps though

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eena meena me 2 weeks ago

@shel we've had video & audio of what's effectively executions of black men and black boys for years now.

and the only thing that's happening is that white people are complaining about all the black folks who are locking up highways with their loud protests about some thing or the other.

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So-Shel-ist 2 weeks ago

@meena yup
point being
we're worse than the Good Germans

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eena meena me 2 weeks ago

@shel i'm worried and scared to an extent that i'm afraid to even put into words.

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So-Shel-ist 2 weeks ago

@meena lean into it imo. let yourself feel negative emotions. let it course through you and process it and experience the full breadth of it until it grows and evolves into bravery and action

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eena meena me 2 weeks ago

@shel i'm not sure what value my negativity about america has.

as far as "bravery" and action goes, i can offer anyone a sofa, open arms, my change, my phone, on this part of the earth that's not in war yet.
they don't even need to ask.

and i can offer the "wisdom" i've brought with me from fleeing war barely even knowing it.

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So-Shel-ist 2 weeks ago

@meena Are you in another country? As acts of international solidarity, you could hold actions pressuring institutions and governments to sanction, boycott, and divest from the U.S. as much as is possible (i know there's a limit)

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So-Shel-ist 2 weeks ago

@meena you could also get involved and try to do base-building/dual-power organizing in your own home to try and foster a strong socialist movement that could resist imperialism.

https://www.communistlaborparty.org/seattle/index.php/dual-power/

https://philadelphiapartisan.com/2017/07/20/base-building-activist-networking-or-organizing-the-unorganized-tim-horras/

DUAL POWER FAQ – Seattle Communists

DUAL POWER FAQ – Seattle Communists

^{www.communistlaborparty.org}

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eena meena me 2 weeks ago

@shel as non-german citizen i'm afraid i have no voting rights in germany… which might also preclude me from founding a political party. But we do have a pretty cool communist / socialist collection of parties… that i can't vote for.

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So-Shel-ist 2 weeks ago

@meena you don't need to vote to organize a socialist movement; and nobody needs to know you can't/aren't voting

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Keiya 2 weeks ago

@shel So because I'm autistic, and terrified of crowds, and unable to use telephones for more than a few minutes without screaming in frustration, I'm worse than nazis? That's what you're fucking saying with this. You are saying that because I'm not as socially capable as most people I'm evil.

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So-Shel-ist 2 weeks ago

@keiyakins I'm also autistic and afraid of crowds and I'm only good at telephones cuz i worked at a call center living under the poverty line cuz nobody else would hire me.

and i don't know how you got "Worse than nazis" from my post. You're not worse than the nazis. You're worse than the germans living in nazi germany who knew what was happening but did nothing.

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So-Shel-ist 2 weeks ago

@keiyakins and despite my autism, and anxiety, and being trans, and having disabilities, and having no fiscal safety net no blood family to fall back on, despite all of that

I blockaded a DHS office and went to jail. and guess what

You can do shit without going to jail or being in crowds

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Keiya 2 weeks ago

@shel ... I might have gotten a little aggressive. I'm just sick of being told that if I'm not going to physical protests I'm doing nothing. I'm doing what I can, but transportation is an issue, strangers are an issue, there's a lot of things I just can't do.

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So-Shel-ist 2 weeks ago

@keiyakins join a movement and find a way to help out it's not all protests. It's not OK to do nothing but these symbolic rallies where you stand in a crowd and chant aren't even the primary effective way to fight back so like get creative find another way

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So-Shel-ist 2 weeks ago

@keiyakins Like the guy who used an HTML scraper to pull every single ICE officer off of LinkedIn and posted their names and faces with their titles and cities.

Like the people who late at night poster around town the faces of ICE agents in the area

The people who sabotage ICE vehicles while nobody is looking

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So-Shel-ist 2 weeks ago

@keiyakins the people who archived the ICE roster before DHS could take it down. the people who find out where ICE detention centers are. the people who provide rides to undocumented members of their community to help them avoid getting pulled over by ICE. the people who repair breaklights. etc. etc.

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So-Shel-ist 2 weeks ago

@keiyakins you're underselling your abilities to help out.

If you do nothing you're complicit. If you seriously assess your own personal situation and you really seriously can't do anything

you're still complicit but u have an excuse.

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So-Shel-ist 2 weeks ago

@keiyakins I don't know your personal situation but I just don't have any sympathies left for oh wah wah how dare you make a generic call to action because I personally have anxiety and am very fragile and can't just ignore this post if i don't like it.

Because there are people who to be fucking honest can do shit but aren't because they are prioritizing not feel any stress in their relatively comfy lives over people who have no choice but to live with this.

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So-Shel-ist 2 weeks ago

@keiyakins so don't go come into my mentions like "not everyone is as strong and privileged and capable as you" I'm disabled too. I'm trans too. I'm working-class too. I've been to jail. I probably have more diagnoses than most of you and I just don't care. Assess your own life I don't need to hear why you're deciding you can't act it's not my business.

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Keiya 2 weeks ago

@shel I mean... I write and discuss and try to build up the ideas when I can. I made a backup of that data set. I think my representatives are probably sick of hearing from me. But being unable to drive and stuck living in the fucking suburbs with no mass transit blocks pretty much every avenue that involves leaving the house. And it felt like you were trying to say it's not okay to consider my limits, to take some time to maintain enough health to not snap. I probably misinterpreted you.

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So-Shel-ist 2 weeks ago

@keiyakins It's not OK to prioritize feeling pleasant feelings and not taking risks to the point that you don't engage and do nothing. It's not OK to sit around retweeting and boosting things and that being all you do. It's not OK to be constantly reassuring everyone that you can be a good person while not doing anything to fight back.

I said in a related post that only you can assess what you're able to do; but you have to make that assessment and leave your comfort zone

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So-Shel-ist 2 weeks ago

@keiyakins i'm 100% there's something people living in the suburbs can do though I can't tell you what it is because I don't know the specifics. I'm sure there's a local DSA or something that has members with some ideas

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So-Shel-ist 2 weeks ago

@keiyakins I used to live in a rural area just outside the suburbs with my dysfunctional parents and could only leave the house by borrowing their car.

i told them i was visiting a friend in newton, took the car, and went to roxbury to join a march and filmed cops.

i asked for money to get pizza and then gave it to local activist orgs.

there's shit you can do

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So-Shel-ist 2 weeks ago

@keiyakins and yeah if you live in the suburbs w/ your parents you are WAY better off than most of us who are taking action. it can be boring and frustrating and depressing but you have a much greater capacity to take risks than I do. If I lose my job I don't really have much to fall back on. my own personal savings, maybe a gofundme. i could lose my medications. my hormones. all sortsa suff

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So-Shel-ist 2 weeks ago

@keiyakins but i'm willing to risk it because it is morally necessary to do so.

so you don't get to tell me i'm being unreasonable by saying that i hate all these posts reassuring everyone it's OK To Do Nothing and how pissed i get when privileged people With Anxiety or other mental issues i also have come into my mentions to complain that I want more people to help fight back

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❦ CRIME LICH ❦ 2 weeks ago

the audio and video – you don't need those to know, they are bonus in the way that severed body parts and lynching photos were bonus and snuff films were bonus. the only thing the good germans doubted was the humanity of the people being rounded up and killed, same as here, and it's evidenced in the way they've to date had no problem whatsoever trading in all that pilfered wealth; the way they force every repatriating jewish descendent through a slow and painful bureaucracy; they way they still play oblivious when allowing neonazis in skinhead regalia to operate as normal in society.

and the people here, pretending to check out in self-care, are the same goddamned monsters as those, using whatever language will minimize scrutiny.

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