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I’m done with all the American shock about “how can this be happening??” And “this is not our country.”
Like, is that all you’re gonna do? Be indignant on the Internet so you can claim you weren’t a collaborator once the regime falls? That’s not enough my guy
Words aren’t enough, and no one needs to hear your indignation. WE KNOW IT’S BAD. DO! SOMETHING! ABOUT! IT!
There are concentration camps in the United States. Before anyone starts arguing with me about using that term, I want to point out that “concentration camp” doesn’t necessarily mean “death camp.” It means “internment center for political prisoners and members of national or minority groups who are confined for reasons of state security, exploitation, or punishment, usually by executive decree or military order.” (Source: Encyclopedia Brittanica.)
An internment center for members of national or minority groups. Hispanic immigrants are a minority group.
Confined for reasons of state security. Trump claims he is detaining the immigrants because he wants to keep our country safe.
Usually by executive decree or military order. Trump issued an executive order to detain immigrants “indefinitely.”
So, we have concentration camps in the United States.
I’m not going to bother arguing with the people who claim the camps are “humane,” or the people who claim the traumatized immigrant kids are “child actors.” Those are both such bullshit arguments, and if we spend time arguing over stuff like that, we’re wasting time we COULD be spending in resistance.
And speaking of resistance!
I have seen a lot of people on social media and in person asking “What is going to be the last straw? When are we taking to the streets?” And the answer is NOW! RIGHT THE FUCK NOW!! In fact, that’s been happening, where are you all? We could use some help out here!
I don’t want to see any more Facebook posts asking “when are we going to do X?” There are people out there doing it already. There are groups in the streets, there are groups doing direct action against ICE, there are groups helping immigrants in their own neighborhoods. JOIN THEM. DO IT. BE THE CHANGE. Don’t wait until “the last straw,” get out there and do what you want to see done right now!
If you are new to resisting fascism and you don’t know how to start, that’s okay. Here’s what I want you to do.
The Resistance is getting organized. Now is the time to join us if you haven’t already. Don’t let this Trumpian fascist regime get any further than it’s already gotten. No Pasaran.
It’s fucking prison camps holding 1,400 children. that’s fascism.
This is incredibly difficult to look at. I fear this will continue and he will commit even worse crimes against humanity. I believe the UN is sitting on June 27 to discuss the humanitarian aspects of Trumps decisions here.
Glad to see major network coverage of this
So sorry that this isnt snakes but… wow.
yeah. that’s fascism. you guys, we can’t just let this happen. we can’t stay silent about this now that we know about it.
call your senators. ask them to support the Keep Families Together act. if you do absolutely nothing else, do that.
This is not news, but it is an important read, especially for people who were previously unaware of the trend of neo-Nazis stealing pagan symbols for their own.
If you are an anti-racist, anti-fascist pagan, keep doing what you are doing, you are keeping the fight alive
If you are an anti-racist, anti-fascist person who is not a pagan, help us spread the word of this, stand in solidarity with us as we kick the fascists out of our communities
If you are a fascist pagan, fuck off, this faith is a peaceful one
No platforms for fascists.
~ Max
…and right here is why you see me starting to wear non-viking garb in the SCA. Because I’m really REALLY white and really REALLY not a racist, and I hate that these people have found their way into my weekend nerdery.
I would posit that if you feel comfortable doing it, and if you feel supported, you should definitely still wear viking garb and not let fascist nazi bastards appropriate it for their own purpose without opposition. 🖤
Please, for the love of fuck, do NOT give up on either your religious paraphernalia *or* your hobbyist Viking swag because of this. Y’know what you ought to do instead? Be vocally and openly anti-racist. Make it known that all this bonehead bullshit is not what we stand for.
And how do you make something known? Well, a man by his speech is known to men.
Make fascists afraid to be vocal. Run them out and counteract their evil with overwhelming good. Make donations to charities that help people of colour under the public name and honour of Odin and Freya and Frigg and Thor. Shout louder than they do. I see a lot of fascism and disgusting vitriol in the comments section on videos from wardruna or heidlung - and something I’d like to do is reupload those videos with the express intent of curating the comments section heavily to keep that shit out. Most accounts won’t do that and they don’t notice how much hate is in their fan base. so I get really angry about these people taking music and culture that is expressly open and for everyone to pollute it in this way. If you know anyone personally that uploads videos to YouTube please remind them to curate that shit, report the bastards. Make statements that it’s not okay. Even one small platform is too one too many.
oh holy shit, that took off! I think this is the most popular post I’ve ever made. and it got better in the comments!
Let’s keep it going. Kick the fascists out of paganism. Tell the fash to FUCK OFF!
~ Max
there have been a few fake antifa/antira facebook groups, emails and even meetings in germany recently (by nazis). its dangerous and some people have been hospitalized. just 10 minutes from me, someone got lured into a fake meet by AFD supporters and the group locked the door and assaulted and robbed him. i read your how to find your local antifa post, but do you have tips how we can realize if an internet group or real life meet really is run by antifa?
This is a really important point (and also a tactic that antifa have used from time to time)! In our post about joining an antifa group/starting your own, we warned people to approach any group you’re not familiar with caution for just this reason. Here are some tips:1) Research the group you’re thinking about joining up with. If they have a social media presence or website, how long has it been up - a short while or a much longer period of time? Have they been involved in any antifa actions that you’re aware of? Are they linked with other antifa groups you know of? More importantly, do those antifa groups vouch for this one? Is this group part of or affiliated with an antifa network like The Torch Antifascist Network (U.S.), or the Anti Fascist Network (UK) or La Horde (France) or Antifascistisk Aktion Sweden or Anti-Fascistische Actie (the Netherlands)? Has the Twitter crew @antifachecker listed them as a legit crew that they follow or a fake-ass crew of fash trolls that they’ve blocked? 2) Be careful what information you provide at first. Most antifa groups will probably want to know how to get in touch with you, what your name is, where you live, why you’re interested in getting involved, etc. But you can see how revealing too much - your full name, your neighbourhood or home address, where you go to school or work, contact info that can be traced back to your home - can be used against you if the group turns out to be a trap.3) Meet in a public place. When you’re first meeting with members of the antifa group you’re looking to join, meet them in a public place. This protects both of you, as things are a lot less likely to kick off if you’re in public and there are a lot of people milling about. That said, you also want to meet where everyone will feel safe to discuss matters openly. We’ve found that many cafés or pubs serve this purpose quite well.4) Bring someone. If you’re looking to get involved in antifa, you probably know someone else that is as well. Bring them, or even someone not that interested but who you trust and who has your back. There really is safety in numbers!5) Tell someone where you’re going. Make sure someone knows where you’ve gone to meet up, when the meeting is, and when you expect to be back. Better yet, do all of that and tell them that you’ll call them 15 minutes after the meeting begins to let them know you’re ok. If they don’t hear from you then, it means you’re in trouble and need help. BUT DON’T FORGET TO CALL THEM @ THE 15 MINUTE MARK!6) Trust your instincts. Boneheads aren’t very good actors. If anything doesn’t feel right to you; if something seems suspicious, walk away. It will be a lot better to explain yourself after the fact if your instincts were wrong than to find yourself in a very bad situation. Look, we don’t want to make anyone overly-paranoid - tbh, these kinds of things do not happen very often (we can’t think of a single instance of this happening IRL with any antifa that we know personally, although as the original poster mentions it’s been known to happen), but in antifascism, as with all political activism, it’s best to take sensible precautions.
We have literally received dozens of asks from people that have said “I want to do antifa work but I don’t want to get involved in violence” for whatever legit reason they have. The truth: 99% of antifa work is the non-violent building of support and solidarity with each other & the targets of fascists and undermining fascists every way we can think of. Yet is the 1% of antifa work that involves physically confronting nazis that gets all the attention - if it bleeds, it leads, as people in the media like to say. If you are really and truly stumped about what you can do to further the cause, please take a deep dive into our archive, which has literally thousands of examples of what other antifa have done.
What advice do you have for a baby leftist like me trying to get into the movement?
People are going to give you a list of books to read if you want to be a “real” communist, or anarchist, or whatever. Honestly, I don’t think there’s a demand for any more well-read leftists to debate theory and long-term plans online. What we have a demand for is leftists to go out and build the new world. Not that there aren’t people like that already, there just could always be more
Honestly, building a homemade wind turbine or composter for your neighbor, no charge, will go miles further in convincing them to join our cause than knowing exactly the right slogan and book recommendation for them. Feeding people will do so much more to change people’s view of the far-left than lectures online. And I mean, stuff like that is what’s going to change the world anyway, not figuring out all the little political minutiae - there are plenty of people who will gladly volunteer to figure that out once we’re at that point
Dual-power strategy is starting to gain some steam among the left which I am absolutely thrilled for - the idea that we can live in our ideal world relatively soon, and without violent revolution, is so incredibly exciting to me. But in order to make that happen we need people in the streets working
Check out my practical tag for projects and resources, then organize with your friends and neighbors to actually get to work. If you need help finding radical communities near you, DM me and I can look around for you
Edit: Also, please, please join a union
yes yes yes yes yes
This is not news, but it is an important read, especially for people who were previously unaware of the trend of neo-Nazis stealing pagan symbols for their own.
If you are an anti-racist, anti-fascist pagan, keep doing what you are doing, you are keeping the fight alive
If you are an anti-racist, anti-fascist person who is not a pagan, help us spread the word of this, stand in solidarity with us as we kick the fascists out of our communities
If you are a fascist pagan, fuck off, this faith is a peaceful one
No platforms for fascists.
~ Max
Keep your neighbourhood clean! Death to Fascism! [video]
But remember to wear heavy protective gloves and/or use a tool, because sometimes there are razors or other dangerous objects taped under the flyer to injure people who try to remove them.
But let’s not be alarmists about it either. People keep adding this warning about hidden razor blades to posts about removing nazi propaganda and I don’t want people to be scared away from actually doing something.
I have seen only two instances online of razor blades being taped to some piece of nazi propaganda, and in neither case did it hurt anyone, because a razor blade under a sticker would be pretty easy to see and feel before it would cut you. Just take a look at the sticker or poster you’re removing and use common sense. Use a key or something if you’re scared of razor blades.
Let’s try not to discourage people from actually removing fascist propaganda by telling them to wear heavy gloves or whatever to protect against something that practically never happens when ripping a taped piece of paper from a wall.
If you see fascist propaganda, just tear that shit off or cover it up!
Cover it up with “punch a Nazi today!”
covering it up is the safest bet. that’s why I carried a couple different socialist and Antifa posters around with me in my backpack when I was on campus. stickers will work, too. just cover up their fascist stickers with ones that say “immigrants welcome, fascists fuck off” or something else like that
of course, if you don’t have any stickers or posters with you, and you can tell that the fascist poster doesn’t have anything dangerous behind it, then you can just tear it off. I tore off one that was halfway coming off the wall anyway, and there was nothing behind it.
but just be aware that they do sometimes hide razor blades, and be safe out there. resist responsibly.
rest when you need to. don’t be afraid to take time for yourself. face the world at your own pace.
but face the world. keep fighting in 2018. we’re going to need you.
It’s totally cool how the official White House twitter is pushing white nationalist talking points.
“The Danger of the Stronger Multiplication of the Inferior Ones
Average: 2 children - Average 4 children
At the beginning: 1 couple with 2 children - 1 couple with 4 children After 30 years: 1 couple with 2 children - 2 couples with 8 children After 60 years: 1 couple with 2 children - 4 couples with 16 children
The inferiors doubling with every generation.
Without taking into account death, celibacy, childlessness, and so forth.”
The translation of this Nazi Propaganda is disheartening and disgusting. The comparison to what the tweet says, in my opinion, is too similar to be coincidental…
To make matters worse, this tweet is not photoshopped. It is real and The White House did tweet it out: https://twitter.com/whitehouse/status/942789560941064193
maybe I should make a list of how many times the White House has put forth something resembling Nazi propaganda. maybe that would get the point across to liberals who think we can “work with them.”
we can’t work with them. if you work with nazis that’s called nazi collaboration.
fascism isn’t to be debated, it is to be smashed
~ Max
that’s because Nazis are the bad guys. in real life. all the time. forever. no exceptions.
and you know how, in those WWII movies, the heroes are people who fight against the Nazis? YEAH. GUESS WHY THAT IS.
I know personally, I always watched those and went “wow, if I lived in the 40s I would totally have helped the Resistance. I could totally have sheltered and protected Jewish people. I could totally have carried secret messages back and forth. I could totally have defended my neighbors from the SS.”
well guess what, America. its 2017 and there are Nazis here. they’re still fucking targeting Jewish people (because when don’t they), as well as a shit ton of other groups. it fucking sucks.
but now is your chance to make good on all those ramblings. if you watch the WWII movies and say “I would have helped the Resistance,” THEN HELP THE RESISTANCE NOW.
defend your Jewish neighbors, and your Muslim neighbors, and don’t be one of those “nice people” who looks the other way and doesn’t help. we all know how that poem goes, right? “first they came for the socialists,” that one? yeah. we’re not making it through this unless we stand up for each other.
#Solidarity.
Last June President Trump claimed that the UK was experiencing a crime wave due to “Radical Islamic terror”.His behaviour was viewed by the British public with abhorrence as inciting islamophobia. Such was the outcry of condemnation at his remarks he postponed a state visit to 2018.
In retweeting the videos of Britain First to once more falsely portray this country as experiencing “Radical Islamic Terrorism” President Trump has again directly fermented islamophobia in this country and furthermore given political credence to a vile fascist organization. Such political scapegoating of muslims and promotion of fascist ideology requires an immediate response.The Labour and Trade Union Movement must initiate as soon as possible a mass demonstration against the President of the USA to protest his actions.
Since the “all lives matter” bunch is busy marching chanting “Jews will not replace us”, “white lives matter”, “blood and soil” and other racist and xenophobic atrocities, I wanna take a moment to commemorate this brave woman. Heather Heyer was 32 years old. She was murdered while counter-protesting in Charlottesville.
Thank you for taking a stand, for fighting against racism and homophobia. You will not be forgotten.
She was a member of the IWW as well
I don’t have anything to say that I haven’t said already. The alt-right are Nazis and we need to be fighting against them. We need to step up and push back at every turn. We CANNOT let Nazis gain any ground. Nazis gaining ground is how WWII started.
If you don’t believe that they are actually Nazis, look at the pictures of Charlottesville. These guys are literally making Nazi salutes in the streets as they do an angry white supremacist march. I don’t know what else I have to tell you for you to get the picture here.
If you have a problem with shit like this happening in your community, it is your duty to stand up against them and push back. It doesn’t have to be violent - I’m not asking everybody to take up arms, that’s not some of your styles and that’s fine so long as you’re resisting some other way. THERE ARE A MILLION WAYS TO RESIST. Nonviolent marches. Sit-ins. Civil disobedience. Drowning the Nazis out with loud music. Shouting ridiculous shit over them so their hate speech cannot spread. Even covering up their posters with posters or stickers of your own: memes or unicorns or whatever you’ve got. If it throws a wrench into the Nazi’s plans, it’s great and you should do it.
And as always, support your Muslim neighbors, your Jewish neighbors, your POC neighbors, your refugee neighbors, your trans neighbors, your queer neighbors. Stand up for those who will feel the effects of this the worst. Be alert and be active because this is our reality now. As much as you might not want to believe it, this is the real world.
WE CANNOT LET THE NAZIS WIN.
One function of antisemitism is to protect established elites from revolutionary movements. Directing left-wing sentiment at the Jews as a collective has protected abusive authority for millennia. Left-wing antisemitism is fundamentally misdirected and self-destructive.
lefty goyim: reblog this shit
Roger Baldwin, a founding member of the ACLU. This strikes me as a pretty important, potent message for the women (and men) who are striking today (no pun intended.)
Remember: every right we have was fought for, hard, and people died to bring us what we have. We need to keep fighting, because those in power are not just going to hand us rights. We have to claim them for ourselves.
