The US under Trump/Musk isn’t new—history gives us blueprints to resist & win. Lessons from India’s independence, South Africa’s anti-apartheid fight, AND @bindingchaos.bsky.social & Abstracting Divinity show the way. Here’s what we CAN DO NOW. 🧵👇
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📌 Centralized power corrupts
📌 Gandhi & Mandela were crucial, but victory came from decentralized, mass participation
📌 Build leaderless, adaptable movements
🚀 Action: Form autonomous, self-organizing collectives & community councils
📌 Abstracting Divinity reminds us: Power is only power when we obey it
📌 The British, apartheid leaders, & capitalists all feared one thing—worker solidarity
📌 If we stop working, the system stops functioning
🚀 Action: Organize local & national strikes
📌 India’s independence movement boycotted British goods
📌 Anti-apartheid activists pushed divestment campaigns
📌 In the US, corporations & billionaires fund oppression
🚀 Action: Move your $, boycott unethical brands, support worker co-ops, divest from Wall Street banks
📌 Apartheid fell when the world cut off economic & cultural ties
📌 India’s freedom came as British empire crumbled globally
📌 US activists must expose corruption & pressure global institutions
🚀 Action: expose US injustices and wrongdoing, invite sanctions
📌 The British 'ruled' India until people refused to listen
📌 Apartheid 'controlled' South Africa—until mass civil disobedience made it unenforceable
📌 Obedience = Power
🚀 Action: Disrupt, ignore, & undermine illegitimate authority at every level
📌 Practice collaborative governance
📌 Exploit fractures in their coalition
📌 We must build alternative economies, governance, & social systems NOW
🚀 Action: Form mutual aid networks, worker co-ops, & community-led governance structures
There are 170,000 million Trump supporters. You are not going to get past them by means of peaceful disobedience.