Here. I wrote about the point of deciding to just fight and die on a hill rather than endlessly calculating the best moment to put up an opposition.
https://othermeans.io/p/going-down-swinging
https://othermeans.io/p/going-down-swinging
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"Retreating for better conditions sounds like a great idea on paper, the issue is intoxicating and youll forget you eventually have to turn around and fight"
Click your state on the link and find out where they will be.
https://www.nalc.org/news/fight-like-hell
Even Bunker Hill is triumphal.
I'd also argue the Civil Rights Movement but that doesn't apply to the American psyche as a whole, I'm afraid.
“To the German Commander.
NUTS!
The American Commander”
It’s only semi-famous, but it’s definitely party of the myth.
I've no intention of writing an essay here, but you're leaping squarely into Kafka's "God Is Dead" idea, along with the
For one thing, survival along with one's material goods is a rational choice fully in line with secular materialism. Belief systems, however, carry as part of the baggage
The Democratic Party has, since the '68 implosion, and the detritus strewn about by Carter's Iranian adventures and American Malaise speech, embraced careerism, the
There is no "there" there, except as compared to Republican perfidy, but, eventually, that stops being meaningful What would it mean to die on a hill for Brian
We're in a Rumsfeldian trap here, forced to go to war with an army lacking both conscripts and volunteers. I'm not feeling great about it, and you've made it immeasurably worse, forcing me to contemplate going to war with a
Leap before you fall.
For the same reason there must be no compromise on trans and other minority rights.
I mean genuinely, if shit went down in the US, I’d come over to volunteer, because unlike our liberal leaders I believe that liberalism and liberal ideals are worth fighting for, and that fascism is a rot that must be killed in its crib at all costs, not something to be bargained with
either we commit that this is indeed a fascist thus treasonous take down of the republic... or continue the endless analyzes and the smart-set punditry and prognostications.
at least you give us something actionable.
Therefore I'm almost certainly reading it wrong.
In typical self-righteous leftie fashion I still hold "might doesn't make right" and then that jackass showed me "right doesn't make might".
But whatever. I like hills too.
My lucky Canadian ass gets to think about this with a lot more relevance these days
There's a game theory thesis in this conversation somewhere but unchecked power does have a track record of over extending itself. Knowing what to do before that point is a real pain in the ass though
As Yang Wenli says the greatest freedom is the freedom to not get involved.
or you surrender and sit by while they destroy your neighbors, your friends, your family, your country - maybe eventually you
My feelings were right on.
Which hill? Where? Today?
Too many gave their lives for us & I do NOT want their fight to have been in vain. Their bravery is being erased already.
Instead of actually dying there.
Fascism only survives on continued momentum. It's why it's ultimately self-defeating. It has to keep up the momentum and so it eventually turns into endless purity testing of their own.
The only way to defeat it before it kills us all is to cool off that momentum through resistance.
New American Radicalism?
Aggressive Liberalism?
Politically
even personally
What are your wildest dreams?
These are wild times and we have permission from the universe
to take off our conformity suits and dream a brand new dream.
Let’s be new.
But don't fight each other. Fight Trump.
Wailing about the dems or the left or the moderates or whatever other group is mostly aligned but not exactly is not productive.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iAIM02kv0g
Ponder that for a moment before reading the article.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlLv_EIL9OE&t=3s
Make this go viral!
Modern fighters use guerilla war tactics, and live to fight another day.