Post #2079201

2026-04-30 17:34 UTC

This is going to sound counter Intuitive to the Emotional need for revolution. But the best way to fight back is community networks and finding what is needed by marginalized groups and create programs that help those groups and organize around that action. Also making those networks distributed so it makes it harder for Authoritarians to squash but you can still navigate between the networks to get the resources you need. A good example of this was the breakfast programs the black panthers started. If you read how the government tried to dismantle those programs and failed. You will see how effective they can be.

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@SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-04-30 17:56

This is the best solution. If we can no longer count on our "representatives" to represent our needs in governance, we must build our own separate governance from the ground up to help one another. The Black Panthers knew they couldn't trust the racist US government to help the black community, so they organized to help the community themselves. They *mostly* did community support projects, but they *did* have a set of armed members who essentially acted as a local police force since they also definitely couldn't trust the police to protect them.

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@OwOarchist@pawb.social 2026-04-30 19:00

Mutual Aid *is* revolution. The more we help each other, the more the state becomes obsolete.

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@Major_Tsiom@fedia.io 2026-04-30 18:50

That’s just surviving. OP asked how do you stop the oppression. That could be done over time via the electoral process if it was left intact, but it has been damaged already and very likely will be ignored if and when it goes against the will of the oppressors. Then what?

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@angrystego@lemmy.world 2026-04-30 21:16

With the new surveyance methods available to the regime, this is going to get harder and harder.

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