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Resist: It's Time

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We are still in this together, but "this" is going to be real different in the very near future. This demands a different kind of "we."

The French Resistance during Nazi occupation played important roles delivering downed Allied airmen back to safety, supplying military intelligence, and acts of sabotage.

The Underground Railroad is estimated to have brought 100,000 freedom seekers to safety between 1810 and 1850.

It's time.

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You're going to need to be vigilant about fact checking the information you come across. Meta (FB, Insta, WhatsApp), X/Twitter, TikTok are all fascist mouthpieces at this point, and you don't have to use those services directly yourself for the messages they amplify to reach you.

Don't just be suspicious of those messages you oppose. Be as suspicious of rage-bait, and messages you are already primed to agree with. This is how propaganda works: by taking advantage of what people already want to believe.

If you can't find decent sources about the thing you're seeking to verify, set that thing aside. If you can find one source, or the same story being repeated multiple places, be skeptical. Be aware that early reporting on events as they unfold can easily be wrong in ways that impact the accuracy of the reporting, even if the story is substantially true as a whole.

Information gaps - where one party has more, or more accurate, information than another party - are how power is leveraged. When you take steps to be factually accurate, in line with objective reality, you are shrinking the power of those who would like to control you.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I know I'm late to this but this is a fantastic post, and a really important idea to remember at a time like this

Especially given we're on a platform with a more narrow range of political perspectives, so messages you agree with are very likely to spread here, and sometimes, like any message with emotional intensity, they'll be wrong or misleading

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You're never late, and don't let anyone make you feel like your participation isn't important because they knew about something before you did. Thank you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Thank you, I appreciate that :)

I think it's mostly just habit from forum culture where necroposting brings back old forum threads that aren't relevant anymore or whatever