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Lol my moms having a Zoom meeting with her #ResistLib group and they're talking about "taking back" the Amerikkkan flag (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 week ago by SovietBeerTruckOperator@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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Some were worried waving American flags would be "triggering to POCs", but then they agreed that they're gonna try and "take it back from Trump!"

Oh yeah she also introduced me to some 20-something in her group that seems to think she's in a YA novel. She's talking about forming an "underground" that has a goofy name like the "Sparrows" or something that uses its own special language she made up (its a simple word-key code any puzzle nerd could break). She has an alt-constitution written in a mole skin book that she showed me and I had to hold back my laughter at how badly it was written.

Sorry if this comes off as mean spirited but she just moved back in with me and this is her whole personality now. Normally id be like "well at least she's not a CHUD" but she's been really arrogant and self important about this like she fucking Vladimir Lenin over here when she's an upper middle class white lady who used to be a landlord.

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[–] Cadende@hexbear.net 52 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I wish these people were serious. Like, not giving up at the first sign of police repression type of serious. Because goofy or not, we do need a militant response to fascism and that requires bodies.

They aren't serious, at least not the vast vast majority, but I do think its worth doing education/recruitment over pointing and laughing, because they're sorta on the right track they just have no concept of how fucked things already were, how they're likely to get much worse, and that their beloved liberal institutions won't save them. If I knew these people I'd probably be trying to get them to read about past liberation struggles (genuine ones not privileged cosplayers) to get an idea of how the state responds to this stuff and what practical, concrete resistance can look like.

edit to add: being cringe is better than doing nothing. At least she's talking to like minded people and making connections.

[–] lib1@hexbear.net 38 points 1 week ago

being cringe is better than doing nothing

This. These groups can be used as a base for more radical organization as they grow an inevitably splinter. People need a path to radicalization and we work with what we have.