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Stay safe. Stay secure. Stay alert.

[trickeryforgood]

We have nothing to be proud of- no rest until fascism is put down.

[reasonsforhope]

There's a saying my dad taught me, that I've found is very true in life:

The antidote to anxiety is action.

If you're like me, you're probably anxious right now. And scared. And quite probably angry. About climate change, about the Palestinian genocide, about Donald fucking Trump.

That only makes sense. It hurts to find out that people aren't as good as you thought, or hoped. It hurts to know how much better we could be doing, and then see all the ways in which we aren't doing that. It hurts to know that people are going to die.

This is something I've been grappling with myself since the US election. I had hopes that were higher than this, and I had reasons for those hopes, but in several spheres, those hopes have been disappointed.

That's not a reason to give up, though. It's not a reason to give up on the world, on yourself, on your life, or on hope.

The antidote to anxiety is action.

(Nobody is allowed to interpret this statement as being about/against psych meds btw. Meds are great and help a lot of people. But this isn't about them.)

Fear and anxiety exist for a reason: to warn us when there is a threat. And to motivate us to do something about that threat.

That's why, the more you push anxiety down down down, the worse it tends to get.

Your brain - your self - is telling you that something is wrong, and that you need to do something about it.

So listen. And find something you can do to help. Anything.

It will make you feel better, I promise. Maybe not right away, but it will.

And the more you do to help, the more you'll see the difference it can make. The more you're surrounded by people who are also helping, who also care. The more you'll see more and more ways to help.

Look up organizations near you - especially organizations that help protect the groups that are most vulnerable right now: undocumented people, immigrants, trans people, BIPOC, queer people, Muslims, Jewish people, disabled people, unhoused people.

Find someone who is helping, and find a way to help them.

The more we do to help each other, the more we organize, the more we resist fascism and work to beat climate change and make those fuckers pay for every. last. fucking. inch...

The more we will change. The more people we will protect and save.

We're stronger together. So find something you can do. And do it.

[thecottageinthedark]

A lot of people reading this probably aren't in a position to do the political organising thing, for any of a number of reasons, so; if you can't do anything directly related to the problem, doing something else constructive can also help, psychologically speaking. Even if it's just something like cleaning your room or cooking a meal for someone so that they don't have to or IDing penguins on a citizen science site.

It's not as sure a thing, obviously, and for some of you it won't help much or at all. Minds vary, on this. But for a lot of people, it does work, and it's worth trying.

Despair serves the enemy because if you're too overwhelmed, depressed, and hopeless, you won't be able to resist effectively even when and if you do get an opportunity. Also, miserable people tend to quarrel and pull each other down. Which is the opposite of what we need right now.

Of course properly speaking this is all secondary to the fact that the wellbeing of individual humans is important no matter what bullshit happens on a wider scale. But it's understandable right now if it feels selfish to think of your own mental state. So here are some other reasons that you can use if you're unable to believe in your own importance.

[chantssecrets]

[guerrillatech]

[technofeudalism]

everything Trump is doing and will do is historically horrific. that said, i'm always taken aback when i see someone post some shit like "we are officially living under fascism now."

the key thing it exposes is that some people were genuinely under the impression the entire time that you can vote fascism away and that we did it in 2020. online liberals get so mad when people share this meme but it actually happened.

we did not "beat" fascism 4 years ago and it just magically came back because we didn't vote it away this time. but i think that is the conclusion some are coming to. even if Trump lost, geopolitics has been forever changed as a result of what he's managed to do in the last decade. you cannot eradicate fascism via electoralism. it is not going to work. fascism has been here. as with so many other things in life, it is a scale, not a binary.

in the slim chance that we get another fair election in 4 years, if Trump actually loses or leaves office, fascism still is not "gone." it is still on the rise. it sounds corny as fuck, but any activist will tell you the fight against fascism is a lifetime fight until it is dead and buried, not one you engage in every four years.

even then, you HAVE to stay vigilant. forever. that is what the "anti-fascist" label in your tumblr bio means. it is not like "Democrat" in the sense that it only determines what ballot you're handed in an election primary. it is not simply a personality trait.

this is what many activists have been trying to explain to so many for so long. but people have refused to hear it because those activists, who came to these conclusions on their own and have been trying to explain these concepts to people for decades, aren't always able to articulate this point without losing their patience and wind up being cast as bitter or condescending. it's been a constant losing battle.

[plastiquechanel]

benandjerrys on Instagram

[screwusernames27]

It’s 3am. I wouldn’t stop till it was done. I usually don’t post political esc art but after this past evening and the inauguration I am left with nothing else to turn to.

I’ll let my art speak for itself

[whereserpentswalk]

Friendly reminder that ICE still existed under Biden, that there were still countless people deported under Biden, that if the democrats had one and the same deportations that are happening now happened, you likely wouldn't have heard about it at all.

If you suddenly care about the rights of immigrants the moment that a republican is in office, you don't actually care about immigrants. Like, I'm happy more people are calling out ICE raids now, but it's upsetting knowing that the exact same people would be defending and/or ignoring them if these were happening under a different president.

Please, there is going to be a time when Trump is out of office. And ICE will likely still exist and still be deporting massive amounts of people when that happens. If you actually care about human rights, and not just hating a specific guy, you're going to have to hate ICE just as much once he's out of office.

[trashbaggyvicky]

Elon you’re time has come

We know what you did

You know what you did.

[trickeryforgood]

^ Important message to keep in mind going forward.

From @/jamylecannon, his tiktok page

Figures mentioned in this video:

Bayard Rustin: a pivotal, yet underrecognized, activist in the civil rights movement. It's worth it to take the time to look into him and his work, especially if you haven't heard of him until now.

Thurman (deserves to have his name spelled wrong. cunt.): a republican member of the senate, and a clown. From his wikipedia page, "Thurmond conducted the longest speaking filibuster ever by a lone senator, at 24 hours and 18 minutes in length, in opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1957."

Ida B Wells: Prolific member during the early civil rights movement (active during late 1800s- early 1900s).

[who i assume to be] Benjamin G. Harris: Worked to enforce slavery. From his wikipedia: "[He was] forever disqualified from holding any office under the United States Government. U.S. President Andrew Johnson pardoned Harris several weeks later."

Video transcript (1m 30s):

"I need you to understand that everything we're about to face, we've already overcome. And the people who overcame weren't shocked and outraged by every move the regime made.

Bayard Rustin was not sweating the daily updates of Strom Thurman. Ida B. Wells was not distraught by the cabinet picks of Benjamin Harris.

Leaders and everyday people who were imprisoned and persecuted by the government, acted with conviction and poised because they had a positive vision of the future to pursue.

When you don't have a positive vision to pursue, you live in survival mode. You fixated on the threat, so you always have something to flee, but nothing to run toward. The way out of survival mode is to imagine and pursue a positive future or follow someone who does.

Federal agencies are about to be run by a traveling band of sycophants, C-list celebrities, and sex offenders. The last pick was outrageous, the next pick is going to be outrageous too. We know this, but the outrage cycle is not going to protect us. It'll only set us up to react, not respond.

Reactions keep us living in their imaginations. Reactions take up the bandwidth we need to plan, organize and find the right people to follow. Reactions stop us from creating a positive vision of the future.

Let's accept the reality that this administration will be a dumpster fire at a bomb factory next to a daycare above a levee beside a free health clinic and start throwing our support behind people, parties, organizations, the movements doing something about it, who are as clear about what they are fighting for as what they are fighting against.

They need you to stop scrolling and show up with your time, money and talent, or at least to carry water and chop wood for the cause. We're going to be okay if we wake up and work.

/end transcript]

[original-username42]

Reminder to people upon gaining power it took Hitler only 57 days to dismantle German democracy and declare himself dictator and start purging the "undesirables"

[robotgutzz]

This is the last thing i wanted to post here.

We need to get fucking MAD.

Where is the outcry i was promised? All I’m hearing are meek “we told you so”s directed at very pleased brick walls.

The longer we wait, the more damage will be done. My future is being sabotaged right before my eyes and no one is helping. This is the scariest moment of my life- this affects me directly and you directly, too. Spread this like a wildfire - this cannot go on. Too many people are already having their rights stripped away. This is scary. Get mad. Where is your rage? Where is the pushback that we swore would come? We are watching history repeat itself.

You are not alone.

This isn’t a democracy, this is a dictatorship.

Fight for your right to survive.

[cyberfestivaldonkeycash]

Can’t access reproductiverights.gov because it’s gone, can’t access the literal constitution on the official White House page because it’s gone, can’t access documents translated to Spanish because they’re gone, and so much more. They did all of this on day one, everyone who voted for him saying none of this would happen can go fuck themselves. They’re coming for reproductive rights and medicine. I have a “reproductive” disease that has fucked up my fertility and when I choose to get pregnant I will very likely need an abortion because it won’t be a viable pregnancy. This administration will get me and so many other women/pregnant people killed. Then they will come for us in the LGBTQ+ community, then the disabled, and anyone that isn’t a white cisgender man. This is just the start and the next four years will be our fight. The resistance start NOW!!!

[fossilized-honey]

Sending my love to every transgender person

to every trans person seeking a place to stay

to every trans person of color

to every trans woman

to everyone who’s gender doesn’t fit the binary

to “non-passing” trans people

to those in a fight for gender affirming documentation

to trans people who had to isolate from their families for safety

For every trans person in America:

I’m so sorry our country has failed us.

Right now, our best resistance is to continue living. Please join us in this act of staying alive.

[anarcho-communism-revolution]

[trickeryforgood]

The journalist Julius Futjik's recorded last words, "Människor, jag har älskat er alla. Var på er vakt!" translates as "Mankind, be vigilant, we loved you."

(Untranslated article)

[anarcho-communism-revolution]