I just want to give a shout-out to @mishi badass profile. I needed to read these words today. Maybe you do, too.
"There will be times when the struggle seems impossible. Alone, unsure, dwarfed by the scale of the enemy. Remember this. Freedom is a pure idea.
Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. The day will come when all these moments of defiance will have flooded the banks & then there will be one too many. One single thing will break the siege. Remember this."
"This "leading source of breaking news" with Twitter Blue subscription consistently tweets misinformation disguised as breaking news with no sources and zero evidence.
Look at the engagements for these made up stories."
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John Brown & Unions are the keys to busting the MAGA fascist bubble. They're not magic, but these are the themes that we can sell to Americans about a better America that their ancestors lived and died for.
John Brown was a fundamentalist Calvinist, who lived and died for equality. He is a key example of progressive Christians who would be called Social Justice Warriors by the Right.
Unions (& the New Deal) were THE key for bringing Americans out of the Great Depression.
Coal miners getting killed for wanting enough pay that their children wouldn't starve is the image.
@eberhofer I made a John Brown-like resolve on that day to fight White Christian Nationalism, by any means neccessary.
If John Brown was alive today, the decades period that he fought slavery before taking up arms would've involved the Fediverse & online forums. He would've used it to organize the underground railroad and communicate with independent cells of resistance.
The other way is to take the info and stories from the Fediverse into other online spaces. That Christian flag pic was my first post in a thread about "White Christian Nationalists & other US Fascists". I started that thread on a General Discussion board of a Southern jam band, that I have been on for 15 years.
That was 2 years and about 1,000 posts ago. Others have joined in to link to relevant news stories about the rising fascism. IMO, that unrelated connection of music & a band makes a difference in piercing the bubble.
At this point, there is a self-selection about who chooses to join it. This is as good as it gets, but we also have amazing mods and admins to thank for keeping it awesome.
Make friends. Follow people. This is the best of humanity.
We are the ones to save the world. Superman isn't going to show up in act 3.
Keep your current handle, but look into #SelfHosting any #Fediverse instance. Keep your current #Mastodon and add on a unique experience that you control completely.
Hell, even #Pixelfed if you're really into pictures. F Instagram.