A Number Of Rants
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This is a series of rants that go together if you think for longer than five seconds.
1. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
The revolution is happening; it's just not being shown to you.
"Where's this revolution leftists always talk about?"
It's happening; I think we as Americans have a very basic understanding of revolution. "This happened, and everything was better!" That's just not how it happened. The civil rights movement wasn't three protests, and racism ended. Queer liberation wasn't just Stonewall, and then homophobia ended. Getting rid of slavery wasn't just the Civil War. Yes, of course, I could also bring this outside of America.
However, the point is that revolution isn't just one central event that overthrows the oppressor in one night. It's a long, drawn-out fight to the end. It is never one event that just ends it then and there.
"The revolution about to be televised; you picked the right time but the wrong guy."
I am a huge Kendrick fan; I loved the Super Bowl halftime show. However... I don't think there could have been a more apt example of how the revolution will NOT be televised.
During the show, pro-Palestine protesters jumped onto the field and waved flags, dodging security. One of his dancers also got up on the gnx on stage and pulled out a flag. During all this, the camera suspiciously missed those parts. The only reason we got to see this is because, luckily, we all have personal cameras that we can use. If this had happened years ago, no one would have a clue that these protesters were on the field because the media suppressed it.
Did you know there have been two times as many protests in 2025 than in 2017? No? That's because the media is actively hiding them from you. You aren't going to find this knowledge in your average status quo-pushing media. For any further right media you may, but then you'll find them condemning them, of course, so they don't really matter.
Revolution is everywhere.
Revolution starts with you. Then with your community.
The revolution starts at home and then becomes true through our actions.
Resistance is alive and well in America. It's alive and well all over the world.
That should give you hope. It should also make you want to help in any way that you can.
Get information from the right places.
Some people will fight me on "unbiased" news sources. Here's the deal... I don't believe they exist; everything has a bias. It just means you have to understand the bias of the news source going into reading. You should get your sources from multiple places; real knowledge of events comes from whole numbers of different outlets.
This means getting information from everything you can, within reason.
You aren't going to find genuinely valuable discussion on something like Fox News, because they are less a news station and more a conservative bubble that just wants to anger conservatives. However, getting information from CNN, the Washington Post, and AP News isn't bad; it's knowing their bias that is important. If something seems fishy, look into it more past them. Getting your news from multiple sources is important and necessary, especially getting it from independent sources.
2. Stop Beating Around The Bush.
I think the longer people go on trying to act like this isn't the truth, the worse it will get.
America has always been fascist. Nazi Germany praised America and took notes from us on our treatment of natives. We had slaves for so long that we still have people who are pro-slavery. We helped fight the Nazis and then brought them home with us.
ICE
ICE agents are currently disappearing major voices and protesters who are pro-Palestine and have green cards. They are legal citizens. (Not that it would be any better if they weren't legal citizens.) Then sending them off American soil to Salvadoran prisons.
Are we really not going to call these concentration camps? Are we really going to act like ICE isn't just the American Gestapo?
They walk up not in uniforms and take people off the fucking streets. The only difference is it's not a secret because we live in the most documented time in human history. We are lucky to be able to document everything with phones and cameras because if not, no one would know that people are just up and disappearing from ICE.
Fascist America.
This is what this is.
This is fascist America. We either face that truth now and fight it wholeheartedly or it will only get worse.
Anyone arguing with you that we are not living through a fascist America is only trying to delay the inevitable truth.
Do you need the Nazi symbology? America First. Do you need the kids in cages? We've had them for a long time. Do you need the disappearing of political dissidents? We fucking got it. The burning of books? Whole government web pages have been scrubbed and deleted. Nazi Salutes? You'll never guess!
The Rhinos have come. We have crossed the Rubicon. We can no longer deny the people are turning to rhinos; we can no longer divert the river. It's here. Stop trying to cope by ignoring it; fight it. There are a thousand ways forward and only one way back.
3. Revolutionary Roles
There are a couple of really good images about the roles and what's needed in the revolution.
I just wanted to talk about this.
Find your part in the revolution. It is not just the protests, though they're important. It's also organization and propaganda (this is not a bad word, but I don't want to get into this here.) , community, and planning, and supplying.
There are a thousand roles that you may fit into, and every single one is important in the revolution.
Find a community near you, or make one. Whether it is built from the ground up from politics or not. Then use that community to share a voice and passion.
"We don't need another communist book club!"
Oh! We do, though! If you hear communist book club and roll your eyes, I get it. However, you're kind of missing the point. I am not saying that every communist book club is doing this; however, it is a community of like-minded individuals who get together to discuss political books that can then be turned into actual action when used right.
It goes further, of course. Do you get together and game with friends? Start talking about issues that are ongoing with them, find a common issue you can all rally behind in your local community, and come together to push for fighting it.
Our best fight against oppression is our community and friends. We can use that for good.
Find Your Place
Find what you are good at, and use that. Learn about what is needed and about what you can do to help. Then do that.
We need more people doing more different things. Figure out where you're the most helpful. Are you able to easily explain complex subjects to people? Try to be an educator. Are you an artist? A writer? Propagandist. Are you a good leader? Organizer. Ect Ect Ect. Look into this and find resources on how to do it yourself. Find other people in the role you want and enjoy and ask them about how they do it. You don't have to go into it in the dark; people have been doing these all for years. Join in.
4. Holy Fuck, Censor Your Protest Photos.
First off, stop taking your goddamn normal phone to a protest. Like, goddamn. Activist Guide to Securing your Smartphone really great post with a guide to securing it.
But this is also your heads-up to do this if you're planning on going to protests. Your phone uniquely identifies you. You can get burners, but you have to be careful. If you take pictures or a video of a protest and plan on posting them, CENSOR THE GODDAMN PHOTOS. I have seen this too goddamn much. Protesters have been identified so easily by normal people. Full masks on. So the police will also be able to do that.
Blur is non-destructive; coloring over with a marker tool can be bypassed if you're not careful. Put those goddamn emoji stickers on faces.
Change your camera settings or download a camera app that doesn't give the photo any metadata about your location or phone. That or scrub the metadata before you fucking post it.
Use signal. You want to talk about going to a protest? You download signal. You can share knowledge of protests; that's fine. Your own plans? You talk about that shit under encryption. You also delete those goddamn messages when needed.
Home Work.
Okay, not really; I just don't have anything to add to the end here. Instead, I am sharing a couple of resources, one of which I have shared extensively. The other one I found recently I think is also good.
I know I talk about privacy a lot, and I think it's important; I also think it's a matter of what you need to do and what you decide is best for you to do.
So here are two privacy-focused things I'm sharing again:
Love Every Trans Woman You Meet Before It's Too Late.