• @GoodbyeBlueMonday
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    138 months ago

    There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.

    • Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan

    Let’s not throw in the towel, as dire as things look. It’s not over yet. Organize.

    • Nougat
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      48 months ago

      Good plays by rules, evil doesn’t. Good only wins by having overwhelming numbers. Just a majority won’t do it.

      • @daltotron@lemmy.world
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        38 months ago

        It’s sort of the strength of rules which is the advantage of good, though. The advantage of evil, short term gains, is great. In the short term. The thing about fascists is that they really actually can’t make the trains run on time, or sustain any level of state for any extended period of time, because they’re incapable of actual coalition building without self-sabotage. It’s why they keep having to move to beating on the most extremely marginalized in society. After trans people, I have no idea what the hell they’ll scapegoat, because they’re already scraping at the bottom of the barrel there. It was incredibly unpopular to overturn abortion, it will be the same with pretty much any other healthcare, or really anything that’s actually core to what they want to do once they get power. None of this is to say that they shouldn’t be feared, but we didn’t stay in the great depression, and we didn’t stay in the company towns, you know? People faced with nothing left to lose have every reason to fight establishment power, and fascists and fascism does nothing if not create people with nothing left to lose.

        • Nougat
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          08 months ago

          I think you’re not getting what I’m saying.

          When Side A plays by rules, and Side B doesn’t, then an overwhelming majority in Side A is required to hold Side B accountable. Side B doesn’t need a majority - they can be a “moderately strong minority” - as long as they’re willing to break the rules, refuse to comply, and act with enough threat of or actual violence, Side B wins.

          There has already been actual violence, but the threat of more and greater violence is larger. Side A has to hold Side B accountable, for real, no matter what threats are made.

          There’s been no accountability, Side B is continuing to break the rules, with impunity.