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[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

If you can't win this fight the result will be the full force of the US government being used to destroy the orgs and arrest all leading members. It will be Chile all over again.

The correct move if you can't win is to bunker down and survive. There's no nobility in charging into a battle you already know you'll lose. If the left isn't ready to win yet that can't be changed.

[–] gayspacemarxist@hexbear.net 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I'm glad I don't take advice from liberals

Obviously we have to make sensible plans based on our actual capabilities, but surrendering now because things are starting to heat up is pure cowardice. We have our work cut out for us if this is what passes for left in the US sheesh

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Ehh it's your country and your movement. I'm just saying that it's incredibly fucking easy for Trump to go the Pinochet route and round up all the communist organisers and start shooting you in the head or throwing you out of helicopters or whatever. Do that to 1500 people and the american left that's still in its infancy is dead and won't be back for another 20 years. Chile left was massive and Pinochet had to do it to 30,000 organisers, the american left is nothing by comparison.

I would prefer that you take care to avoid that.

[–] gayspacemarxist@hexbear.net 1 points 2 days ago

That's just a Tuesday in the imperial core fam idk suburban folks may not understand it, but people are getting rounded up all the time. Our prisons and concentration camps are full and keep growing. I'm not cis or white enough to escape it regardless of what path I choose. Bunkering down isn't any safer than the point of the spear.

This is just another tool to divide us. Some people maybe can convince themselves to stand down to "save the cause" by sacrificing their neighbors to white supremacy. What kind of left even is that?