ID: 3 stills from A Bullet for Baldwin (1956)
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Alfred Hitchcock says “I’ve just come into possession of a cure for fascism”
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He sets some bullets on his desk and says “they come in capsule form. For best results, they must be taken internally.”
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He holds up a revolver and says “here is the handy applicator.”
All that too. But anyone who think fascism is going away without armed self defence is, at the very least, not paying any attention whatsoever.
Oh I’m taking about armed sabotage. Also armed self defence
Oh ok, cool, so we’re on the same page lol
E: I guess I’m just too used to libs suggesting boycotting individual companies as a solution to our problems…
Time for people to learn how to make and use molotovs again.
Everyone worried about paying their bills and not securing their freedom, forgetting peaceful protests didn’t stop fascism the previous times.
This of course is a feature, not a bug.
It’s why building solidarity and community support is essential - we need to help each other out (to enable people to make and put those molotovs to good use we also need people to help feed, help babysit, help educate, help propagandise, help as a medic, help maintain safe houses and community centres, help support and defend those unable to participate in any of the other activities due to age or disability, and so on and so on) so that we can collectively become more powerful.
We need a good poster/sticker to start pasting everywhere.
I’m down to educate, and propagandise.
Back when I was more able to leave the house I used to go stickering quite a lot, it’s a great way to spread the word, and signal to other marginalised people that they’re not alone! Now I mostly stick to educating folks online to the best of my ability.
It’s been a while, but I had a very quick look and there are some independent places where you can get stickers and posters:
https://store.c4ss.org/index.php/product-category/stickers/
http://afed.org.uk/publications/stickers/
https://store.crimethinc.com/
https://www.activedistributionshop.org/product-category/stickers/
https://black-mosquito.org/en/fabrikat-bm/aufkleber.html
As for educational resources, the anarchist library is a treasure trove, there are also recent links like this and this that have come up on my feed and seem like great places to start!
Well I’m not gonna say this won’t demand warmed conflict.
But I do want to note that I don’t think the only options can be harmed conflict or an ineffective boycott of a multinational conglomerate.
There has to be other ways. And I’ve actually thought of several, but nothing so simple I could propose it in a single sentence and usually when I get into talking about it the some people get heated up and I’m tired of the same fights over and over. It’s hard to fight alone, but I seriously think the internet would be a more powerful tool in the larger picture than personal firearms. Or at least, I very much hope so.
But life has had a way of doing exactly the opposite of my wishes.
So.
Fuck…
Gl Americans
Most armed people in the US nowadays are in favor of the main fascist, so…
All the more reason for anti-fascists to arm themselves…
USians are deluded in believing that they’re the heroes of the movie.
They’ll do nothing of the sort. They will endure, obey, and rat on the dissidents.
This isn’t defensiveness for myself since I’m not American, or of America, being what it is, but you could say that about pretty much every country in the world, and that’s because capitalism is pretty much decaying globally.
It’s why focusing on superficial “fixes” like a change of administration is a waste of our collective time and energy as the working class, which is exactly what it’s designed to do - keep the public busy and placated with artificial tribalism and an illusion of choice, while those at the top keep collecting and hoarding power and resources.
As long as there is a class of people who benefit from the exploitation of the rest of us, they will do everything in their power to manipulate society to serve them.
You may be right in principle, but I’m not willing to die for it for it. Sorry if that offends your purist revolutionary mind.
No one asked you to die for anything.
But some of us don’t have the privilege of choosing.
Whatever you imagine my sensibilities to be has nothing to do with it, you don’t get to shift the blame, it’s all on you to pick a side for yourself, and live with that choice.