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[–] [S] 26 points 8 months ago (15 children)

Hey Yanks, is this what resisting trumpist fascism looks like?

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    The bill is also funding education, human services, transportation, etc. Cutting all of those agencies isn't resisting Trumpism in the least, either.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

    And is there any particular reason why a political crisis should be averted? Any particular reason why the administration would not have to be frantically diverting is attention to these issues for the next couple of weeks until some kind of crescendo results in a resolution?

    Resistance means making them have to pay a price every step of the way. Each day they don't have to spend their effort to go on TV to do some petty politicking is a day where they have the bandwidth to spin doctor the events in Minneapolis.

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  • [–] -1 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Ending funding for many of these agencies would harm the most vulnerable americans. Unlike Republicans, the DNC understand the cost is some number of human lives which inherently have value.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 8 months ago*

    The most vulnerable people in your country are already being hunted down and put in concentration camps. Helping the fascists keep the lights on is not resistance.

    If you are not ready to do political and institutional resistance that actually raises the stakes, you will create the conditions where people will either have to choose complete capitulation to fascism or violent insurrection.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    I'm Greek-Canadian. In Greece, yankee go home is a classic anti-american slogan in leftist circles.

    I don't know where you found the "tons of posts encouraging violence". I have made multiple posts encouraging non-violent resistance.

    edit: here is precisely what I was commenting 6 days ago about violence: https://lemmy.ca/post/58814479/21200438

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