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'Minnesota 15' Case Reveals Largest US Government Spying on Left Since COINTELPRO (www.commondreams.org)
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[–] 6 points 2 days ago (4 children)

"Buy a gun" is good advice. The whole framing where you're on a team vs other regular people and should be clutching one in fear is fucked. The second amendment exists to prevent a state monopoly on violence. Spreading that power as thinly as possible is the whole point. Worry about what police and military are consistently doing with theirs every day, not the 1:10000 chance of what your shittiest neighbor might do with his in your nightmares

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  • [–] 2 points 2 days ago (3 children)

    I wouldn't categorize neo nazis as regular people personally, but to each their own. My point though was that if the state's monopoly on violence ever truly falters then the racist down the street who has an AR can suddenly go fufill has fantasies. And the only thing that would stop him/her (probably him) is a Black Panther like organization that is also armed.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    I wouldn't go out of my way to construct a fearsome other to react to, but "to each their own". A slavering racist is a freakish anomaly, and you've got a lot more in common with even that guy than either of you do with any billionaire. The only thing that will get us anywhere is collective action and a sense of shared humanity, something you seem to be actively propagandizing against for whatever reason. Really don't love the "so you must be cool with nazis" angle, or much else about your violent, divisive schtick for that matter

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  • [–] 2 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    And I don't really see your let's all hold hands and sing kumbayah until everything is fixed schtick as all that lovely either. The idea that we're just going to have the entire working class united against capitalists is an ahistorical fantasy. There will be brownshirts, and whites, and counter revolutionaries.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 days ago

    Everyone isolated behind their screens with every interaction mediated by tech corpos is the worst case scenario. A fully captive population with no chance to relate to one another directly at all. Ingroups and enemies dictated entirely by what is useful to that power structure. Steps toward unity are worth taking. The paranoia that's been inflicted on you is worth rejecting. A better world is possible, and if you believe that you should try working towards it. At the very least you could stop (consciously or not) reinforcing the us vs us paradigm of your oppressors.

    Or keep mocking the concepts of unity, cooperation, and shared purpose themselves. I'm not your real mom. Just don't think it'll get you anywhere worth being.

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