#anti-fascist action

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[nando161mando]

"Антифашистичка акција" (MK: Македонски)

"Anti-fascist Action" (EN: English)

[embervoices]

Fuck that.

I'm a crafty maker type.

You think I've never cut myself crafting?

You think I don't keep a first aid kit in my purse?

Please.

By all means, if you've reason to be especially worried about cutting yourself*, whether on the possibility of hidden razors, or the reality of stray staples, pins, and nails, then maybe carry a nice big wedge-tip sharpie and deface those posters you don't feel safe tearing down.

There's always a way.

* e.g. maybe you don't have enough platelets, or haven't had a recent tetanus vax.

How effective is removing fascist election posters? bc while ill keep doing it, the fascist party here is very well known anyways and will be on the ballot card anyways so im not sure if my efforts even worth anything :/

They go through the effort of putting them up for a reason, right? If the posters didn’t do anything, they wouldn’t bother. So taking them down is definitely worthwhile

[jedi-enthusiasm-blog]

No small part of Legends seems determined to make the Jedi look bad and the Sith look good. Considering the Sith are inspired by nazis and fascists, it's both funny and deeply concerning.

But I digress.

One of these attempts is the character Darth Vectivus, a human male Dark Lord of the Sith during the time of the Galactic Republic, when the Sith are in hiding. Apparently, he's a man with friends, with a family he loves and who love him back, a regular job… He's a perfectly normal guy, a perfectly mundane dude among thousands of megalomaniacs.

His first appeareance is as a ghost (some funky Dark Side thingy he created, btw), when he's trying to convince a Jedi (don't remember this one, I think it was a girl?) to strike him down. This is because these ghosts are connected to a living being, if the ghost is striken down, the being they're connected to dies. Vectivus is connected to Jacen Solo, who's on the edge of falling to the Dark Side. Apparently, Vectivus does not want a galaxy ruled by the kind of Sith Jacen Solo (or rather Darth Caedus) would become.

But, unlike other attempts at making the Sith look good in the EU, I actually like this guy. Why? Mostly for the funnies, not gonna lie. This Dark Lord of the Sith, the ultimate villain of the SW universe… is a perfectly normal guy with the same problems in his life as the rest of us.

Vectivus didn't know he was Force sensitive until his adulthood when, while doing Business™️, he and his employees came across a Dark Force nexus inside one of the mines they were working in. Fascinated by the power he could feel, he disolved his business, gave compensation to his employees, and went to search for the surviving Sith who could teach him. However, despite his Sith training, he remains a perfectly normal guy who lives a perfectly mundane life until his death, when he dies surrounded by friends and family. It's hilarious, can you imagine his Master's face? The sheer dissapointment?

He has restrain and moral standards. For example, he seems to be a decent boss and doesn't exploit his employees, cares for his friends and family and, just by guessing, isn't a complete asshole to his Apprentice since, whoever they are, they opt not to kill him despite the existance of the Rule of Two.

And yet… we find out he's still economically predatory, he still abuses his powers to harm and profit over rivals, and generally win at business. He isn't causing harm to those close to him, but he's still harnessing the Dark Side to hurt others.

That's the whole point, the Dark Side is always corruptive. Darth Vectivus is just less corrupted than most Sith.

That's it, that's what I like the most about the guy. He seems normal, is normal in a way… and yet he's still an evil bastard, only the regular evil bastard we find in our daily lives instead of the murderous crazy no-sense-of-restrain kind of Evil Bastard™️ we're used to see in a Sith.

It's… a bit of a grim reminder that evil is everywhere, in everyone, including you, and it can take many forms. That even the most kind-seeming people can be evil.

On the other side, the people he's murdered are… zero. Nonexistant, zero, nada. He's killed absolutely nobody. It's actually pretty funny. He's the only non-murderous Sith in existance, literally the only sane man in an Order of fascist megalomaniacs and it's hilarious.

I'm rather glad for his existance, actually, thanks Legends. Mostly because now I can say that I've killed as many people as a Dark Lord of the Sith.

[actualadvocacybruh]

I stopped doing twitter when it became a cp and Nazi hellscape so I’m a bit slow in learning news

Apparently Rowling got drunk on wine and attacked Watson and Radcliffe for daring to not bend their knees to the all mighty queen terf

Like a true fascist she lashes out at anyone who doesn’t follow the leader and kiss the ring in her genocidal ideology

And of course she assumes apology is coming and says they can save it

No one will ever apologize to a fascist that only lives to hate and uses sexual assault and abuse as a shield for genocide and hate mongering to the point she allies with Matt Walsh and Michael Knowles two misogynists who constantly talk about turning women into breeding stock under a patriarchal regime that would make the Nazis seem moderate

Fuck her and support those that refuse to bow to tyranny

[greenhorizonblog]

GreenHorizon Website!!

I made a google site (cause they're free) which sums up and explains the goals and aims of the cause for when we become a real charity, please have a look :)

[mumblingsage]

I need to start blocking more anti-voting posts and the people who post them. Why should I listen to anyone not willing to take the easiest anti-fascist action of our lives.

[dailyanarchistposts]

1. Purpose and Scope

1.1. This position statement is intended to sketch some initial points of agreement in order to facilitate Anarchist Affinity’s continued involvement in anti-fascist work in 2015. It is neither comprehensive nor complete, and we recognize that this position will have to be re-visited, reviewed and developed on as the situation and our understanding develops.

2. Basics

2.1. The Australian state is inherently racist; both the state and capitalism in Australia are rooted in racist premises and racist practice. This commenced with invasion, and continued (and in many ways continues) with acts of dispossession and genocide perpetrated against this continent’s first peoples. It continued with the establishment of control and domination over the entire continent, and with the fostering of a ‘white Australia’ nationalist ideology. Despite periods of modification, notably the brief period of official multiculturalism, the legitimating ideology of the Australian state has been an exclusionary one that pits a predominantly ‘white Australia’ against perceived internal and external threats. This racism permeates all levels of Australian society; popular racism interacts with the state and capitalism.

2.2. There has long been a small and often irrelevant fascist milieu operating on the fringes of Australian nationalism. The far-right, including fascist actors, seeks to break out from and reach an audience outside of the its milieu. The most significant break-out by the far right in recent political history was the short term success of the One Nation party in 1998.

2.3. The effect of the far-right achieving mainstream success in 1998 was to break the official multicultural consensus and to open the space for the Australian state to move further to the right, most notably on immigration and indigenous affairs.

2.4. In 2015 we have witnessed attempts by fascist actors to utilize the political opportunities opened by the Abbott government’s renewed attacks on the Muslim community. For the first time in several years fascist actors are reaching a wider political audience on the basis of anti-Muslim racism.

3. Position of Anarchist Affinity

3.1. Anarchist Affinity contends that the far-right must not be allowed to achieve wider political traction. A growing far-right represents a particular threat to all groups seen as outsider to the narrative of Australian nationalism.

3.2. Where there appears to be a genuine threat of far-right groups cohering and gaining traction among a significantly wider audience, Anarchist Affinity will seek to act in concert with other groups and actors who wish to counter the threat of the far-right and who understand this threat in similar terms to ourselves.

3.3. Anarchist Affinity seek to support self-organisation and self-defense by communities experiencing racism and colonisation. We seek to amplify the voices of people who experience racism (including anti-Muslim racism) and other communities attacked by the far-right.

3.4. Where possible Anarchist Affinity seeks to identify and organize cooperatively with the libertarian anti-state elements of any wider campaign against the far-right.

3.5. In anti-fascist work Anarchist Affinity rejects nationalism, appeals to “Real Australian” national identity, and appeals to the state. Anarchist Affinity opposes racism at all levels of Australian society.

3.6. In anti-fascist work Anarchist Affinity argues that the working class, which includes the diverse communities attacked by the far-right, can and should organise to defend itself. We seek to support, facilitate and engage in grass-roots resistance to attacks by the far-right.

3.7. The political minimum we will argue for in working with other actors on this issue:

3.7.1. Direct action to confront and disrupt the far-right is appropriate where there is a genuine prospect of far-right groupings gaining access to and cohering in an audience significantly wider than their own circles;

3.7.2. No appeals to the Australian state, legal system, or the police to ‘deal’ with the far-right;

3.7.3. Any critique of the far-right must also critique the racist practice of the Australian state, in particular in relation to both colonisation and the border regime.

3.8. On the basis of the above political minimum, Anarchist Affinity will continue to participate in the Campaign Against Racism and Fascism, as well as the autonomous anti-facist network. This position will be periodically reconsidered

[aloeverawrites]

You can objectify a character in the text. It doesn’t matter if they’re real or not.

Objectification ignores the personhood of a person and in the text, they’re treated like people. Or at least the non objectified characters are.

That’s like saying “you can’t kill a character because they were never alive”.

How are we supposed to discuss the objectification of female characters or people of color in media if people are ignoring what these words mean?

I feel like some authors are so scared of being criticised that they’re trying to actively sabotage peoples ability to critically analyse a text. I mean I know it can be stressful trying to always send the right message and have good representation but you have to be confident in the messages in your work and try your best like the rest of us-

How to you treat different characters can show how you treat different people. What you write can reflect who you are. We have to stop being scared of our own reflection.

Your books will influence how you and others see the world. Take responsibility for your power and wield it in a way that makes you proud.

[houseishungry]

Antisemitism is never correct, but any discussion of Palestinian antisemitism has to have some nuance. If I was being oppressed by a group of people, had my home taken from me by them, bombed everyday by them, have my food and water supply cut off by them, and the only example I see of them are soldiers who point guns at me, I would absolutely believe that group of people was evil. I would not be allocating any of my precious energy to having a more enlightened viewpoint about my oppressors if my primary concern was staying alive. I would not be particularly interested in reading history books about my oppressors if I was digging through the rubble for my family’s bodies. I would not really want to meet or become friends with someone from that group if I got my leg blown off by one of their bombs. So yeah a pretty large number of Palestinians are antisemitic, but if your primary focus over the past few months has been scolding Palestinian people who are perhaps not wording their anti-Israeli sentiments the most delicately, you are are ignorant at best, or you’re just a Zionist in denial.

[antifainternational]

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[nando161mando]

"Anti-fascist action Melbourne" (EN: English)

[crabscrabscrabs]

This is Craig Miller from Stoke on Trent, the Nazi 'punk' seen at the rally today. Now I'm not going to say his living room is psychopathic but... I mean a blackshirt on one side and a Pressure 28 logo on the other, he's personally associated with the lead singer of Pressure 28, Kevin Gough who is a founding member of Combat 18.

Please spread him about and if anyone knows him or about him contact me please? He's obviously a fan of Pressure 28 and he's friends with Kevin Glough who is a known ex member of Combat 18. So I feel this guy aside from an activist Nazi Skinhead I think he might be a former Combat 18 member.

[hakaiika]

Hakaii'ka's Notes Day 3

"No dictatorship can have any other aim but that of self preservation and it can beget only slavery in he people tolerating it; freedom can only be created by freedom" -Mikhail Bakunin

[actualadvocacybruh]

“Don’t compare the gays to the trans freaks they arent one of us”

THEY ARE US

The LGBTQ community can’t survive if divided into factions as that makes a united front of resistance impossible

Why do you think the right wing is so desperate to cut the community into pieces in the last decade? It’s their strategy to cut off chunks one by one so their rhetoric can be drip fed into the mainstream and make our destruction easier

Openly being anti gay is a failed proposition in the west but if they can convince people that trans people aren’t part of the community but are a detriment and danger to it they can make the genocidal rhetoric tolerable and acceptable while using the community as a fuckin shield for their atrocities

The handful of gay people that attack our trans friends alongside the fascists are working towards their own destruction in detail and they won’t even notice till their “allies” are shoving them naked and beaten onto the cattle car

Stop giving them your voice and stop working toward the destruction of people that just want to be left alone to live in peace

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

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