okay you have "resist" in your bio and you're online calling him "Drumpf" but like, do your friends and neighbors trust you? do you actually have their back? do people who need help know they can come to you or do you think posting is enough?
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I think the path to resistance can be complex and challenging for some people. People’s journeys are unique. Speaking out may be a tentative first step. As my therapist- who embraced gentle encouragement- liked to say, “It’s not nothing.”
In the 90s, we used to call this Slacktivism. Doing the absolute minimum in order to feel a little better.
We turned classic chain-letters into emails. You'd get an email about an issue, add your name at the bottom, then spam it to everyone in your address book.
Like, sure, they can buy the lawn sign but that does jack shit to stall Focus on The Family's cultural program, much less stall Federalist Society or the Heritage foundation
Even their posting generally ends up being "I accept his framing on these issues but I think his solution is bad." Which is how you get hundreds of bios proclaiming they believe in "equal rights" while following high profile transphobes.
"Resist" but you know, in a way that constantly cedes ground.
I live in a cul-de-sac neighborhood where 1/2 the residents are flag-waving Trump supporters & the other 1/2 are back-to-brunch Democrats who call the cops on Black people for merely sneezing. Nobody trusts anyone here.
Their neighbors can trust them, because their neighbors are trumpists who they're on friendly terms with every hour of the day they don't spend being impotently furious online
I think some understand it’s not enough which is part of why many of them turned to “enjoy the camps” posting. They are giving themselves permission to stop caring about the people who are going to suffer the most.
They will never do anything material because that requires Work, but they’re staring down 4 more years of having to deal with the little voice in their heads that tells them they should care enough about what’s going on to do something more than posting or voting.
Just realized that this means you thought I was unhappy with being ignored by these people. I’m not, it’s for the best. But it does say something about the kind of people they are.
I love having a sense of community but I don’t think it’s possible for a lot of people around here to ever feel that emotion (don’t believe me? I live in a mostly-PMC suburb of our nation’s capital. It can be grim.)
The intersection of how we act online and what we do irl is complex. It's not the case that online opposition to Trump is irrelevant, even though it is entirely true that resist posting and changing literally nothing else is worse than pointless.
hashtag resist shit is just the same vein of warping your grandparents' brains as fox news was. look at how scared they are over shit that isn't even real while they get convinced to ignore the real things that are scary
thinking back to the aunt of mine who kept posting "trans lives matter" memes and leaving me on read when my dad started making death threats, eventually saying "what do you want me to do?" and blocking me
I'm convinced most of these accounts are bots. I try to block them and the KHive accounts. It's been over two months. We can not be a community driven by individual heroic mythologies.
It would be more productive to describe why his decisions are a bad idea financially and politically instead of making fun of his name, appearance or age. Or maybe just steal the american flags hanging on your asshole neighbors houses, and burn them.
You mean are you a decent person? Always an interesting question. A lot of people know there's safety on groups but wouldn't know the first thing about leading a group to safety.
resistance democrats romanticize their movement thinking of themselves like star wars rebels. mark hamill is a demagogue to them. they are all completely fucking useless offshoots of trump derangement syndrome afflicted performative fools
I have never yet met a single resistance democrat who has even the slightest fucking idea how harris could have lost the election. their field of visual awareness of the election campaign and issues has about a 15° width
they fervently believe she lost because criticism from the left turned off undecideds, because the left didn't turn out, and because some leftists actually voted for Trump.
they can't actually identify the voters that mattered so they shit on the same minorities the campaign shat on.
Yeah, few too many of those resistance libs have said "can't wait to see the [minority members] that voted for Trump get deported😂". It's like...wow you fucking psycho.
There was a resistance guy with all the hash tags arguing that it was in to deadname Caitlin Jenner just cos he didn’t like her politics and yeah dude, nah, fuck you
the same people often also consider "big accounts" some sort of elite -- I remember calling out one for this since like follow backs and posting through it is the activism equivalent of putting a shitty coexist bumper sticker on your car.
how is her post suggesting that? in what way does saying “you should have a positive helpful & friendly relationship with your neighbors” even remotely equate with “this is about Trump”
I truly don't understand what it is that people don't understand. I read the post as "Great, you have resist in your bio and make fun of Trump, but that doesn't make you a good person." What do your neighbors have to do with anything?
you actually might not understand this concept but I’ll give explaining it a shot:
being performatively upset online to zero effect is not valuable & being personally helpful to the people in your local community is incredibly valuable in creating positive change
Please accept my apologies if I have offended. Clearly the post did not mean what I took it to mean. I thought it came across like a criticism of anti-Trumpers for being bad neighbors. Which feels like two unrelated things to me.
It's about a very specific type of anti-Trumper, the kind that thinks being anti-Trump is enough to save this country from Trump and the various flavors of facist backing him. Being good is not a performance, it is an action.
I read it as an implied criticism. Like "Anti-Trumpers are bad neighbors." In that case the logical follow-on is that MAGA neighbors must be great. To me it sounded like a MAGA supporter trying to "pass." My bad.
I don't understand your post. I take it as criticizing Trump opponents for not doing enough or otherwise being bad people. If I have misunderstood, my bad.
The original post sounded to me like they were saying that anti-Trumpers make bad neighbors. The logical follow-on is that MAGA voters DO make good neighbors. I took it as a pro-MAGA person's post. My bad.
Under every post recommending masks to deal with smoke in LA there are multiple saying "don't bother if you're maga" or some such. There are people actively running for their lives and that's what they have to offer? It's a fast moving disaster- either help or shut the fuck up.
people so desperately want posting to be the same as Doing Something, that they're having some sort of real positive effect, and in turn that being mean to democrats online is having equally real negative effects and that entire mindset is delusional
If posting had a real net positive impact all these former gifted kid imposter syndrome perfectionist types would be procrastinating it instead of doing it 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
These same people will block you and make "callout posts" because you aren't posting about x enough meanwhile no one in their community can depend on them and even their own friends don't trust them bc it's all fuckin performative
because the discussions are forever about the Big Problems and their Big Causes, people feel like they can't do anything but post, but the Big Problems have so many contributing or resulting Small Problems that you (the general you) can do something about if you just open your door and take a look
i have a friend like this and when i told him about democrats, Kamala Harris specifically, absolutely fumbling the NLRB vote, he was like ‘well, it’s about intentions. im focused on a bigger problem, trump is going to take over canada’ lmbo are you fucking serious dude
from my experience with this phenomenon it's that people are very frightened and they see anti DRUMPF posting as the only proper response to that fear. it has very little to do with real life commitment to a cause and everything to do with what different people find acceptable as tone
imo it's the same people who think it's more important to never do anything "bad" that it is to do actual good.
like they'll attack and tear down people actually trying to make a difference for the crime of not being paragons of social etiquette (as defined by them) rather than actually contribute
people just want to Post all day and will tie themselves into pretzels thinking that's important and meaningful. it isn't. it's just yelling into the void.
I prepared a mutual aid form using Google, just covering light-lift stuff (picking up groceries and/or prescriptions, helping with yardwork/snow shoveling) gave it to my HOA, and they blasted it out to the neighborhood.
Oooooo…. Can you share the form? I want to do this in my very rural WNC community. Volunteers with chain saws were in very high demand after Helene and it would be great to start indexing stuff because literally no one is counting on the govt for the next weather event.
I wasn't sure how to get it out. So I attended a monthly HOA meeting, there were about a 7 folks and I mentioned with it being winter, and our community being an old one, folks might need some help and asked if the Treasury could send it out. They were all happy to oblige and away it went 2/2
Yes! We don’t have an HOA but there is a community center and a volunteer fire department and people always hanging/gossipingat the post office. I can get something similar out.
These are the same folks blaming Muslims and Latinos for Trump, and salivate at the idea of republicans deporting them because they care more about some gotcha than actually helping people.
A person posted about bringing chili to their neighbors and the kind of people who scream about "violence" in fiction (and also the kind of people whose day jobs turned out to be at defense contractors) absolutely dogpiled them for days. Apparently it's trauma to give someone unexpected food.
That’s just …..weird. I live on a section of mountainside where there’s like 12 homes total, spaced very far apart, and we are continually passing food around. In non emergencies too. It’s considered being neighborly.
There is also a church here that cooks FREE Southern breakfast for the entire community once a month on Sat. Morning. There is no proselytizing or trying to guilt people into attending church. Just 5,000 calories per plate and neighborhood gossip.
A useful lesson for me in how much of the online left were not going to do shit against Trump/a neo fascist movement. And it's why I don't post as much about politics anymore. Either we're there for each other offline or we're not. All else is just vigorously masturbating in front of a mirror.
People who have a sign in their window saying "In this house, we believe Black Lives Matter..." but also go to the city council meeting to block a local affordable housing project because it would "ruin the neighborhood"
I just want to check something. do you love america? if 1000 of you who love the nation like this reply trump will turn into a golden bird and fly straight to jail
Look, just because I don't know what the law is, or when Garland was confirmed as AG, and I don't know anything about the various SCOTUS decisions that have stymied the prosecutions of trump, and I don't understand "political capital"...
...or how the Senate isn't like a parliament where the Prime Minister can order their MPs to vote a certain way, it doesn't mean I can't also be outraged when the government that I don't understand doesn't operate in the way I want it to.
Uhhhh the reason I’m so furious is because I understand these things. If I weren’t an attorney I wouldn’t be raging every day at the open fucking clown show our federal courts are turning into.
You equate rage with ignorance. That’s a stupid thing to think.
I’m furious that Donald Trump is about to be inaugurated again and impotent resistance libs like you have a litany of excuses for why it’s Good Actually that the federal government is being peacefully handed to a rapacious kleptocrat who will sell off the country for parts.
I call him Shitler, and IRL people who need help know they can come to me w/ IRL emergencies (food, lost dogs, hospital appt &no car etc) but I don't post about these things; I also don't Raise My Hand/Retweet If I Agree with posts anymore, what nonsense, and I did it for so long too😑
And if you live off in the cut, or out in some holler, and there's nothing like that where you live- buddy you gotta start knocking on doors and writing letters. Do you have any friends? Because if you do, go go get them, and if not you need to go make some.
Resistance, like being an ally or a feminist, is a thing you do, not a thing you are. People spend so much energy labelling themselves as the good ones they don't have time to actually do anything good.
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We turned classic chain-letters into emails. You'd get an email about an issue, add your name at the bottom, then spam it to everyone in your address book.
Then poof! you "did your part".
I saw someone call him Mango Mussolini 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Because ORANGE 🤣🤣🤣
"Resist" but you know, in a way that constantly cedes ground.
The intersection of how we act online and what we do irl is complex. It's not the case that online opposition to Trump is irrelevant, even though it is entirely true that resist posting and changing literally nothing else is worse than pointless.
but i also don’t do the first stuff
they can't actually identify the voters that mattered so they shit on the same minorities the campaign shat on.
Are you performing solidarity or are you standing in solidarity?
“I have no room in my life for allies. If you’re not willing to be an accomplice I have little need for you.”
shocker, they blocked me
its so exhausting
being performatively upset online to zero effect is not valuable & being personally helpful to the people in your local community is incredibly valuable in creating positive change
actually do something irl
Why you imagined she said anything about MAGA being better is well beyond me
https://bsky.app/profile/kitforkat.bsky.social/post/3lf6aq5thks2w
any analysis except Material
Only one stayed on past the inauguration (i think he meant it tho). Most came off after a week after I asked what they were gonna do.
like they'll attack and tear down people actually trying to make a difference for the crime of not being paragons of social etiquette (as defined by them) rather than actually contribute
It's literally that easy.
Folks fill in First Name; Last Name; Address; Phone #; Email; if you need aid; if you're offering aid and the aid options in the previous message. 1/2
"don't criticise dems because what if some normie saw your post on bluesky dot app!!!"
You’re welcome…
https://cheezburger.com/18473221/woman-cooks-for-neighbors-somehow-offends-people-on-the-internet
You equate rage with ignorance. That’s a stupid thing to think.
Your analysis is dogshit
The next best time is immediately after that, right now.
And as time has progressed, *this* has now become the best time to join one. You see where I'm going with this one?