Politics

“Authoritarians cannot rise if there are strong communities and people are acting with joy. That is, you need despair and anger in order for an authoritarian to rise. Whatever those things are that you bring to the community, do them and do them with joy, and don’t stop doing the things you love because you’re scared, because that actually is a
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Trump and the Epstein files
Authoritarians like Trump love fear, defeatism, surrender. Do not give them what they want | Rebecca Solnit
theguardian.com
Rebecca Solnit argues that authoritarians like Trump thrive on fear, defeatism, and surrender, urging readers to resist these tactics by bolstering love, trust, community, and resolve.
Takeaways:
Authoritarian leaders exploit fear and hopelessness to gain power.
Resisting authoritarianism requires cultivating community, care, and resolve.
Historical figures and events demonstrate the power of collective resistance.
The most anti-capitalist protest is to care for another and to care for yourself. To take on the historically feminized and therefore invisible practice of nursing, nurturing, caring.
To take seriously each other’s vulnerability and fragility and precarity, and to support it, honor it, empower it. To protect each other, to enact and practice
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