For example, the Nazis were big on public works projects and pretending to be socialists, both of which are anathema to the American Fascist Party that the GOP has become.

[–] lunar17 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

True, we've pretty much skipped the "socialist" part of "national socialism".

[–] JusticeForPorygon 4 points 4 months ago

Moved right on to the part where we lock up all the socialists

[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Most of us would do well to study how fascism rose to power in europe

[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I found that fascinating and spent most of middle school doing my own reading and research on it. Although now I’m more terrified than fascinated.

[–] CodexArcanum 13 points 4 months ago

I think you'd do better at this point to study how resistance movements within fascism form and survive because that's about to be a lot more relevant.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I understand what you mean. The future is scarily uncertain right now.

I encourage folks take that anxiety and turn it into productivity. Look into your local solidarity communities, which may take form as Union groups, local food shelfs, or many other forms. Donating your time or resources is what can help those most impacted right now and later down the line. There's no cut and dry way to find them, you just have to look and ask around your community.

I would also recommend beginning to prep. There's some small communities on Lemmy, such as [email protected] ( you can find others by searching communities with 'prep' in their name). There's also some great podcasts covering prepping such as LLTWID and It Can Happen Here(this one is more heavy on current news but provides prep info in some episodes.

I would also say that keeping your ear on guntubers isn't a bad idea (Brandon Herrera, Garand Thumb, etc.). Not only do they provide tutorials that are potentially useful in extreme cases (Garand Thumb's urban and rural evasion tutorials and TRex Arm's summary of radio comms for example), but they are also likely laying out the playbooks most amateur militia will use in the future (if it comes to that), which could be useful info to know going forward.