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.
@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 >_>
@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.
@meena yup
point being
we're worse than the Good Germans
@shel i'm worried and scared to an extent that i'm afraid to even put into words.
@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
@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.
@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)
@shel i'm from Bosnia, I grew up in Austria. I now live in Germany.
(aaand, yes… My company has always had a policy of not using any resources from the US. Previously it was simply that the privacy standards weren't quite up to european standards, as now everyone knows thanks to GDPR. then along came 2014 / snowden… and… then it just went downhill.)
@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/
@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.
@meena you don't need to vote to organize a socialist movement; and nobody needs to know you can't/aren't voting
@meena they didn't have video and audio of the camps though