Would community defense organizing be good?

  • Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org
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    6 hours ago

    Surrender and recognize you might get a listing in the back of a history book someday, if they don’t win. PS: They will likely win.

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        5 hours ago

        If you’re the person being arrested, your options are to surrender or fight and hope they only beat you within an inch of your life without actually killing you (with the understanding that the chances of them killing you are increasing every day). Unless you manager to use legal force against them in which case you are 100% dead.

        Community defense is when OTHER people come to rescue you, typically using nonviolent methods to harass and inhibit the agents until they give up and leave. Of course, the chances that agents will just kill them are increasing every day, too. Either way, once you’ve been targeted you’ll likely need to go into hiding, and engaging legal council is probably a good idea even if you’re a citizen.

        I don’t think this is pessimistic or nihilistic. I feel like it’s a pretty accurate assessment of the likely possibilities. I’m open to hearing other interpretations, though.

      • Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org
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        5 hours ago

        If not surrendering, you’re toast, community or not. They’ll kill you for resisting before your community can mobilize. So you end up in a different list in the back of a history textbook.

        Of those two, I lean toward classical nihilist; I believe nothing but what I’ve experienced in my own self. Pessimists believe that everything gets worse; My hope is that it change for the growth of our game.

        • DylanMc6 [any, any]@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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          Of those two, I lean toward classical nihilist; I believe nothing but what I’ve experienced in my own self. Pessimists believe that everything gets worse; My hope is that it change for the growth of our game.

          So to you, nothing matters, so it DOESN’T matter if nothing matters?