Day 200:
Fucking Fascists:
When did it become Un-American to punch a fucking fascist in the fucking face?
Let me be clear what I am saying here, I don’t think violence solves anything, in fact I don’t think there is such a thing as a heroic war, or a just war, or really any “just” reason to hurt people. I am not talking about my personal views however, but American culture.
We won world war two! We stopped the Nazi’s! Captain America Punched Hitler! These used to be giant points of pride for Americans. Our patriotic violence saved the world! We were sure of ourselves in a way that future wars lacked. Vietnam, and Afghanistan, Both Iraq wars, none of these had that purity of purpose that world war two did. Mostly because we were fighting fascists. We knew they needed to be stopped, and while we did it with violence then, we still did it.
So why is that when a bunch of cowardly fascist white men get comically stupid Tiki torches and march around trying to pathetically ape ugly messages from our past we don’t all patriotically punch them in their mother fucking faces?
Why is it that when a cowardly white man plows his car into a group of heroic anti-fascist protesters our weak white bread president can’t even condemn it?
Are we the America where Nazi’s fear being punched in the face? Or are we the America where the wealthy make the rules, and the fascists can walk openly killing whom they please without so much as a peep from the rest of us?
I don’t want to punch Nazi’s in the face, but I want them to live in fear of sharing their views openly. I want them to know there are consequences for such abhorrent behavior. They have a bankrupt and empty ideology based on hatred and prejudice. They have no place in a modern world. The last time they came to power millions died stopping them. Are we going to let that happen again in this country?
I sure as shit am not going to let that happen. Anyone who doesn’t fight against fascists doesn’t get my vote. If the president wont fight them, he gets impeached. If big money corporate interests wont fight fascists they don’t get my dollar. Its that simple, every peaceful and useful measure will be taken to make sure these cowardly fuckers get no quarter in our modern society.
Further Reading:
1947 anti-fascist video made by US military to teach citizens how to avoid falling for people like Trump is relevant again. pic.twitter.com/vkTDD1Tplh
— Michael (@OmanReagan) August 13, 2017
When the President Is Un-American
Merck CEO resigns from American Manufacturing Council after Trump Charlottesville comments
Trump attacks Merck CEO for stepping down from manufacturing council in protest
Trump’s attorney general says ‘evil’ Charlottesville car-ramming fits domestic terror definition
Charlottesville killer denied bail
Charlottesville Was Not a “Protest Turned Violent,” It Was a Planned Race Riot
It’s a dark moment for America — and our president personally made this possible
White Nationalists applaud Donald Trump’ silence about Charlottesville violence
Merkel calls out ’naked racism’ in Charlottesville as ‘repulsive’
Merkel: ‘Extreme-Right’ Charlottesville March Was ‘Absolutely Repulsive’
Trump silent on Charlottesville; tweets on trade, military, Ala. election
Republicans More Likely to Say White Americans—Rather Than Black Americans—Face Discrimination
Anonymous shuts down neo-Nazi and KKK websites after Charlottesville rally
Merck stock spikes after CEO leaves Trump council
Poison once flowed in America’s waters. With Trump, it might again
Protesters Swarm Trump Tower After Charlottesville: ‘No Trump, No KKK, No Fascist USA!’
In 1939, I didn’t hear war coming. Now its thundering approach can’t be ignored
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Calling your government representative:
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Phone Bank for Progressive Candidates:
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Call the “White House”:
Use this website to call one of Trump’s many properties he has not put into a blind trust yet, and let them know how you feel (be polite, they are workers just like us, but be firm).
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Go to a town hall and talk to your congress person in person:
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See how your elected representatives are voting for or against Trump.
Elections!
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