: I am now concerned about Guantanamo Bay.
On_my_last_spoon •15h ago
There’s lots we can learn from resistance movements of the past. Both in how they succeeded and how they failed. Look up the Orange Alternative, a Polish resistance movement filled with artists and performers that caused disruption via absurd theatrical protest.
Just kill me. I want to die.
Defeating Drumpf by having the cast of Hamilton follow him around in public, singing something absurd
Ed. Christ, I looked it up and
The Orange Alternative (Polish: Pomarańczowa Alternatywa) is a Polish anti-communist underground movement, started in Wrocław, a city in south-west Poland and led by Waldemar Fydrych (sometimes misspelled as Frydrych), commonly known as Major (Commander of Festung Breslau)
It dates to the 80’s, and these idiots couldn’t even pick an anti-fascist group. I just assumed it was some WWII era group, but no
We can defeat fascism by Dwarf Posting IRL. Please take me seriously. I am a serious political thinker with a serious view of history.
This sounds like a bit
IT IS NOW A CONCENTRATION CAMP
Oh Guantanamo Bay is now a concentration camp? It’s now a concentration camp? What the fuck do you think it was before???
Libs can just point out that there was never that many people held at Gitmo and most of them got released under Obama. If anything the focus on Gitmo seems like a bit of an op to be to distract from all the other torture centers the US was running during the “war on terror”.
I don’t feel like “number of victims” is really an important factor in determining if something is a concentration camp or not
I don’t know if that’s true, the whole point of a concentration camp is it’s meant to concentrate a population of people so that they can either be killed off or at least neutralized during a conflict. If the amount of people being detained is less than a handful I don’t think you’re really concentrating anything. I don’t think you could argue a racist guy kidnapping two minorities and locking them in his basement is a concentration camp.
It’s still a torture camp being run by an imperialist super power, but the focus on it specially always felt like it was trying to distract from all the other black sites the US has been running.
It was used to concentrate high status prisoners of a political ideology. It’s still a concentration camp if it’s only 200 people who were all in leadership of a political group.
By your definition it means there were no concentration camps of communists in Indonesia, they were simply torture camps.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantungan_concentration_camp
Here’s an example of one that held a mere 500 people.
Gitmo had a peak of 680 I think. The fact that it’s 25 today is an admission of guilt by state more than anything else given the history of how, where and why prisoners were moved and who is left.
They’re concentrated in camps. Auschwitz would still be a concentration camp if it had held only a “handful” of Jews because it would still be part of a network of other camps and part of the genocidal project they all served.
Reading through bits and pieces of those wiki pages and Jesus fucking Christ
Yeah and this is one of the ones the public knows about, imagine what goes on in the ones we don’t.
It was a place where we put and tortured all the bad guys we were scared that we wouldn’t be remotely able to convict in open court, duh.
Concentration camps are only concentration camps if they’re named that way. It was simply a “Detention Center”.
Their BARBARIC CONCENTRATION CAMP
Our GLORIOUS DETENTION CENTER
What do we gain by mocking people calling for immediate and direct political action against reactionary capitalism? This is the leftist version of “IF YOU DIDN’T VOTE FOR KAMALA YOU DON’T GET TO COMPLAIN”
These are not serious people. If this was happening in a Blue way nobody in /r/WitchesVsPatriarchy would care. The US doens’t need a concentration camp to do ethnic cleansing. Trump is simply politically inept. The Blue guys have been the best ethnic cleansers by numbers on the board. This is reacting to an aesthetic that is needed by the Trump admin not only because they want to but also because of a lack of skill in political operations, see the Columbia debacle.
The Blue guys are so much better at managing the gross shit in the empire without making people feel like they’re looking at the icky chapters of the history books. They don’t deport people in treat season. They don’t deport people in ways that are highly visible with glossy press releases. They don’t deport people in ways that are visceral by finding them in schools or churches. They balance it out by compromising that some people can be the chosen, the Dreamers, and stay (but their parents and family members…). Ultimately the Blue team deports way more people, and yet not once during the Blue times did these people ever float this idea.
Biden and Kamala literally reoriented the Democratic party’s immigration policies around the policies of Trumps first term!
Biden was literally playing caravan chicken during election season. Caravan chicken is a geopolitical move where if the timing for a new wave in the “immigration crisis” is bad, American Presidents will send humanitarian aid, and cut deals with South and Central American countries to prevent caravans from forming. Once the bad political timing is passed domestically, the problems of extraction that lead to mass migration can continue without subsidy.
Also Guantanamo Bay has been this country’s horror show for decades now, and multple pre-Trump 2024 “good guy” Blue guys could have stopped the literally a SA torture dungeon our country runs on contested land of a country that we have literally been embargoing to death for 40+ years.
Not only that but concentration camps including Guantanamo Bay have been a part of this country for decades. This isn’t new. Anyone who thinks this is new doesn’t understand the problem, and is therefore ill equipped to advocate for a solution.
These are Blue reactionaries reacting to the news and just like the last time Trump was president on January 19th 2029 these people will be out to brunch. Taking them at their word and attempting to “join” forces will only have you looking like a clown in whatever hat they decide on wearing this time, only to fade into obscurity as they get bored at the fact that their LARP didn’t magically change the world. No tool of “liberal democracy” can fix this because this IS liberal democracy.
In short there was never anything to gain in the first place.
What’s interesting too is these people from reddit, bluesky, Lemmy.world are acting so hysterical. Hexbear is much more calm
To be fair: hexbear is in it’s own delightful world. Lol
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no, unfortunately, but I keep getting sucked into the panic. I swear it feels like half of them are DNC bots.
Yeah, bots, state actors, or [ate the onion] folks, when they all sound and act the same it’s so hard to tell the difference. I feel sad cuz in my estimation (based on my meatspace interactions with real actual caring (really!) lib-assed friends and family) that 9/10 times it’s really just someone who believes the propaganda
Exactly, they are just blue reactionaries who think they can fight fascism while posting to reddit
That’s a whole lot of bullshit to avoid doing any political work with people who don’t already perfectly agree with you. It is exactly the way libs think about vote shaming. Are you an ultra?
The only way any sort of revolutionary movement will happen in this country is if it can find people in political distress like this and activate them on a correct political line. You are literally mocking people who are saying “I don’t know what to do about this, is there some way we can organize non-electoral resistance to American fascism?” because of what you assume they said and did in the past - it’s not like you’re actually verifying they’re the same people. You’re just doing armchair shit.
My brother in christ, what political work are you doing with LARPers on
?This is
, this isn’t “political work”. Political work happens in the real world outside of anonymous message boards.But you do have people pledging to show up at useless protests, being told “They’re not going to do anything except put your face in a fascist database” and still saying shit like “I don’t care about the consequences, what else can you do??”
A lot of these people aren’t lost causes, they’re lost opportunities. Their consciousness is butting up against the aperture of their politics.
We may be on the outside of a walled garden but it still feels like a failing on the left’s part
they’re lost opportunities
They never were opportunities! You’re not fucking organizing a “resistance” on
let alone . That’s not how these things work!Have you completely lost the plot? This is an even lamer and tamer redux than 2016 for fucks sake. We’ve been in this story. We know how it ends. Nothing has changed with these people!
I’m talking about the people saying these things. I’m not suggesting we set up a plywood booth on a subreddit. Geez.
Yeah so your argument is that ‘we’ shouldn’t set up a booth because it’s pointless aesthetics, but their booths are what?
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Look at the actual things people are saying in there, about looking for opportunities for real world action. They aren’t a posting brigade - they want to do actually do something. People who were formally Dem partisans moving into real political work is exactly what we want.
At best it’s stochastic propaganda of the deed in extremely low risk ways, at worst it’s
Find your fire and let your heart guide you. Call upon your guides or deities or ancestors for strength. Enter meditations to receive direction on your next steps. Recharge in nature. Soak up energy from the soil. Ask the Earth for help. You’re in a war now. Do what you can, do what your soul calls you to do. No matter how big or small that action is, the positive ripple effects it will have towards defeating fascism is immense.
thoughts and prayers.
These people pretend they can be Lepa Radić without organization and risky active struggle against a fascist state. They think they’ll win the Hunger Games lottery and be the hero then go back to their own lives. They’re invoking Orange Alternative at worst and “The French Resistance” (which is a lulzy thing that glosses over a ton of shit if you actually know what the French Resistance was) at best.
And for what? To hope one day they can vote a Blue guy in? So they can stop all this and go back to brunch not caring about the same people they pretend to care about.
I think engagement with lib reddit would have a large cost for little return, it’s been like this for a decade. I mean you have a point but like, it doesn’t seem very feasible
We would like need to use bots
Even on our beloved
we are simply just any resulting political action is coincidental because it requires the ultimate sacrifice of 
I’m not talking about posting at them. People who talk and think exactly like this are going to be extremely important to actual real world organizing.
True. We do need them. We need the numbers. I’m just fed up with their hysteria.
That hysteria is actionable. We can say - you are right to be freaked out. But it’s pointless to sit around pulling your hair out when you can join an organization taking action.
I think this is the take. It’s gonna be really fucking annoying to work with former libs-turning-leftists in real time, but the conditions are only going to create more of them and we really do need the numbers.
I mean it’s obvious we need the numbers, but what we need more than that is a way to ban them from their local brunch places. I doubt that we can reorient these people in 4 years to understand that Democrats are also the enemy.
people who don’t already perfectly agree with you.
“Not perfect” here meaning “people who would be totally fine with this shit if it was happening under a competent democrat who did it more subtly”.
Who cares? Who cares why? They are looking for political leadership that only socialists can provide. Let’s take advantage of the moment and make then comrades. That’s what political organizing is.
They are looking for political leadership that only socialists can provide.
They don’t actually want that tho, they want to go back to brunch.
How do you know? I’m so fucking sick of this anti-politics rhetoric. I’ve actually been organizing people exactly like this the past few months, and most of them really do want to do something.
I haven’t been organizing in the recent months because I’ve been swamped at work. But I did throughout 2016 to 2024 with a few months off at times. I agree with you these people really want to do something. But their understanding of doing something is buying a product which is what has been sold to them by the
morons. My local orgs (PSL, DSA, various too small to mention mutual aid groups) spent a ton of time attempting to educate these people trying to get them to understand that it’s not buying a product at all. Ultimately for every person that stayed as a comrade, 10 had dropped by the time 2021 came around.I’m not going to stop advocating for political education (and as soon as my personal shit stops being a mire I’m going back to local orgs). I’m also not taking these people at their word because I’ve been around the block before. I wasn’t not a gullible then, and I’m not gullible now. The reality is that these people don’t know what they’re talking about, and you can tell based on how they talk. Frankly this is the shitty part of organizing work, because you’re essentially becoming these people’s priest for a short period of time, until they choose another god. If you have a different experience good on you, but as an in house conversation most political organizers especially socialists often complain about how fickle new people can be.
And it’s actually a detriment to many small orgs in big population centers because you’re swarmed by a bunch of people who are left flirting but effectively libs who are seeking to rid themselves of their moral/political anxiety about the country they live in. This leads to chaos and destroys org discipline in objectives and goals because you have a cacaphony of noobs who have their own quirky unique ideas (which are neither quirky nor unique) and a lot of conviction that nobody has tried them.
In fact Biden’s election basically cratered an entire SALT chapter in my state within 2 years. Also another problem is that every national org needs to keep it’s eyes on the prize, because every time they talk about China there’s a fucking struggle session where the noobs revolt.
They are looking for political leadership that only socialists can provide
Citation needed.
They’re perfectly fine with following Democrats.
Citation needed.
It’s exactly what they’re saying? Please cite your shit.
These are some of the wonderfully insightful comments of the OP of that thread:
https://www.reddit.com/r/canada/comments/1hh03i5/comment/m2nwzgp/ https://www.reddit.com/r/canada/comments/1iave2v/comment/m9emjr2/
Love me some stale memes from 2016 about Mango Mussolini, and Orange Guy Cheeto Brain
This is a post from the top rated comment where she says that we need to convince Democrats by calling them
https://www.reddit.com/r/NonBinary/comments/1hnmyey/comment/m43norm/
There’s a wonderful personal appeal from the poster of the second highest rated comment (this is not sarcastic good on that person):
https://www.reddit.com/r/YesAmericaBad/comments/1hxmdvt/comment/m6b9w4b/
So point to you.
The person who said they are harboring a trans person also pretends that Trump wasn’t democratically elected
https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1i9dzyd/comment/m91q3k9/
Most of the top rated posters in that thread also post to /r/TwoXPreppers which is lulzy as a political valence because it’s just libertarian-ism but for her. I’m actually too lazy to follow these accounts back to what they were posting in October, but given what I’ve seen in just scrolling I’m not hopeful.
Overall this is a waste of my time and it’s a wash, and it should really be up to you to pluck out the redditors that you think show revolutionary potential or whatever.
they are useful idiots, pawns
The guy who started what?
Guantanamo Bay. You know George W Bush?
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