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Hello my friend Can you help me and donate to me? I lost my family and I want to save my child, Salma, and escape from the Gaza Strip😭😭
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"I think it's possible that worrying about others being distracted might itself be the ultimate distraction."
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"I frequently feel that way. But it strikes me that what might be a distraction from my own chosen mission might, for another person, be the mission, and that what might fail in one place might succeed in another."
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"I see no market for a "works-with fascists and billionaires" message. I see a desperate thirst for a "fights fascists and billionaires" message."
Totally (but not just a message about fighting them - actually fighting them, & then messaging.)
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Thank you! If my body would let me I'd be out there, but it's not an option. I find the narrative that that's the only valid way to engage pretty discouraging and disempowering.
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It's also important outside the US. Our media here in Germany is astonishingly ignorant about the ongoing coup. I mean everybody everywhere needs to understand how important this is given the unparalleled economic and military power the US holds globally
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It’s good to have an orchestrated effort, a common strategy, and so forth, but at the same time— we have to understand how we can be fluid and work toward a common goal amongst variables.
Posting can and does help, it’s all a matter of how you shape your messaging and interact with others.
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Heck, if your activism is making things harder on the opposition in general, creating friction, taking up time, or otherwise being a little chaos gremlin— that’s great.
We all have strengths and weaknesses. We all have ways we can contribute.
Don’t limit people to your own ideas or limitations.
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Look, much like anything else— it’s a spectrum.
You CAN be an activist online. Meanwhile, you CAN *also* do tangible work offline in tandem.
It’s not one or the other.
It’s not black and white.
You don’t need to be “on” all the time.
Let’s not add to the pile and show some empathy.
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Not everyone is *like* you. Not everyone has the same opportunities or access to the same resources you do.
Not everyone can just give up communities they’ve built, especially if they’re disabled, for example.
Most are feeling the hurt on some level.
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If your activism is engaging with people online, helping them feel comfort, explaining things and keeping others informed— that’s great.
If your activism is rallying people in your local community, marching, protesting, calling your reps, and so on— that’s great.
You have options.
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Online spaces are great for digital organizing, especially for folks who have mobility or health issues that prevent in-person work. They’re also good for disseminating calls to action, shared docs with suggested projects, and timely actions that need support.
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I did read the entire article, all the way through, but I still found it somewhat dismissive, & even if you want to argue it's not meant to denigrate the work of online activism, I'd still say that countering the deluge of fascist r/wing reactionary propaganda with info sharing/propaganda is vital
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"The strategies that can work are the strategies that embrace diversity as our strength, rather than seek to force cultural, strategic, or political homogeneity on us."
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If online activism doesn't count or make a difference, Trump wouldn't have thrown a fit over "conservative" voices not getting as much traction on old Twitter and Elon Musk wouldn't have taken it over and intentionally made it almost useless for that purpose.
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Honestly every single time I see "posting isn't going to save us" I feel pretty confident whoever's saying it also isn't going out of their way to seek out and include folks who have been pushed out of physical community.
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The fight for the ADA too! We called it the pitchfork approach- multiple strategies and approaches working together towards one goal.
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Anyway, get out and protest if you have the capacity.
We absolutely need people in the street.
Figure out community mutual aid structures, we need those too.
But yes also digital counts
AND post.
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Only the labor movement is really big enough and organized enough to move massive numbers of people into the streets through internal comms right now, and that is not enough to create the kind of sustained street resistance that will be needed to counter Trump.
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Street organizing is vital but all the major emergent mass movements of the past 15 years (Occupy, Abolish ICE, Women's March, multiple BLM flash moments) hinged on spread of a call to action through social media.
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Posting can be activism, actually, and it can be EFFECTIVE activism if it is couched in organizing that builds relationships and directs meaningful pressure towards decision makers.
I know because I have done it and seen it impact policymakers and gut far right brownshirt groups.
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But we live in a highly digitally augmented reality and the idea that finding ways to act in the digital space is useless or worse is a dangerous discounting of one of the few modes of action accessible to folks who are childbound and/or housebound.