as a leftist and dissenter. Should i have my passport ready to flee?

  • Ericthescruffy [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    7 hours ago

    I’m stuck in the USA for at least another 8 years but I’m starting to wonder if exit strategies are something I need to be considering more strongly. At the very least I think maybe I shouldn’t stay in texas. I don’t know exactly what the timeline is and I don’t think there’s going to be a full masks off fascist coup overnight in the next year or anything but l if we all accept the premise that material conditions are only going to worsen then we should all be pretty fucking concerned that the fascists are a hell of a lot more organized and proactive about laying groundwork than we are.

    • SadArtemis [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      6 hours ago

      we should all be pretty fucking concerned that the fascists are a hell of a lot more organized and proactive about laying groundwork than we are.

      Of course they are, they are the govt. and institutions across the west, after all. The military, the police, the various alphabet agencies, and the established cores of almost any political parties of relevance (US democrats and UK labor ofc, but also Canadian NDP, German Greens, etc), they’re all fascist and very actively engaged in laying the foundations for the fascist consolidation and repression that’s to come. There is no way to remotely compete with that organization and groundwork from within the imperial cores (and they will change laws or disregard them to ensure it) apart from declaring open war on the state and creating the material foundations of a revolutionary state.