thank y’all for sharing this post a bunch. I had a couple things to add to it.
1.) aside from the short-term recommendations I didn’t really go that hard into recommending action people could take for a couple of reasons. Probably the biggest reason is that I am inexperienced when it comes to on-the-ground organizing and I don’t want to just say shit that might either be logistically impossible, is already being done outside my limited purview, or not feasible for a certain group or groups to actually carry out due to whatever factors. A much smaller reason is that this is the first remotely-polemical article I’ve written in nearly a decade that isn’t just me being disgusted with the video game or media industries and I didn’t want to barge into the space like “yeehaw look at me, it’s Princept Anarchy, here to lead the leaderless vanguard of the revolution” because that person generally sucks to talk to
2.) that all being said I do have this sense that right now is maybe the last possible moment to kick the tires and light the fires, so to speak, and that a lot of very typical reasonable fears or concerns around organizing explicitly against the right – that it’s dangerous, that they’re scarily organized and ruthless, etc. are both true and beside the point because no matter how bad it is rn it will be worse in short order and that nobody else is just gonna pluck us out of the predicament we’re in.
3.) I was intentional in my use of “communities of care,” though. Even though we have to fight and that fight might get real dirty I genuinely believe that shouldn’t come at the cost of our ability to take care of each other and ourselves.
4.) I mentioned that all strategies – even electoral ones – are necessary to fight this bullshit. as an anti-electoralist it tastes like garbage for me to type that. but my position on voting and stumping for a politician notwithstanding, I think part of this necessarily has to be keeping the right away from the levers of power for as long as possible while other (imo more important) work is done building up alternate communities and infrastructure and pursuing other actions. I think at this point we’re all familiar with the idea of voting as triage; that’s kind of the vibe I’m seeing here.