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I know a lot of people used to ask the question, "If I was alive during the Holocaust how would I have responded?"
Well... now we know.
Most people just blithely act like it isn't happening. Cool cool cool.
Not sure what the average person is supposed to do from where they live. I go to protests and try to contribute to my local community, while giving money to orgs that are better positioned to do stuff, but I hate this narrative of "nobody is doing anything". I'm not going to pick up a gun and start deciding on targets, and fuck anyone who does generic calls to violence.
At the end of the day, people are just trying to live their lives, and they don't have a lot of individual levers to pull to make an impact. It requires organization and belief that good things can still happen, which are sorely lacking in left leaning spaces.
I'm not really talking about those people at all. I agree with you entirely.
I'm talking about the third of people who seem like they're happy to watch the conservative third of people murder the "left" third of people because they just "don't care about politics."
Everyone who gives a damn is doing what they can.
Wrong ending.
Other guy gets beat to death too.
And then the other, off-screen murderer gets beat to death by the on-screen one even though they're partners.