And one more word about those Righteous Gentiles. After the Holocaust, psychologists began to study them to figure out what made them courageously agree to hide Jews while the majority went along with tyranny. Maybe they were friends with Jews before the war? Maybe they had spare rooms or extra savings tucked away? Maybe some people just come wired with an altruistic personality?

Nope. The psychologists found that none of these factors made the difference. Instead, as Bregman recounts in his book:
Turns out there was one circumstance that determined almost everything. A new analysis of data … showed that when this condition was met, nearly everyone took action — 96 percent to be precise.

And what was that condition?

Simple: you had to be asked. Those who were asked to help someone in danger almost always said yes.

Asking things of each other and acting together is how we move unjust systems. So go ahead.

Reach out to someone. Ask.

#ResInt #Resist #Resistance

The article quotes author Larissa MacFarquhar, who wrote in her book Strangers Drowning: Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Help:

"In wartime — or in a crisis so devastating that it resembles war, such as an earthquake or a hurricane — duty expands far beyond its peacetime boundaries. In wartime, it’s thought dutiful rather than unnatural to leave your family for the sake of a cause. In wartime, the line between family and strangers grows faint, as the duty to one’s own enlarges to encompass all the people who are on the same side…

This is the difference between do-gooders and ordinary people: for do-gooders, it is always wartime. They always feel themselves responsible for strangers — they always feel that strangers, like compatriots in war, are their own people."

#ResInt #Resist #Resistance

I've been inspired to finally seed my local Little Free Libraries with antifascist literature and radical zines.

https://dobbs.town/@RevXenoFact/113856199152747319

"i have a theory of "resonance" - slowly putting similar material within a limited geographic are will create interest/awareness/change of mind. Enough to remind people, get them reading, get them talking."
-Xenofact

#ResInt #ArtFED #TVAC #AntifaAF #antifa #zine #library

How do I resist Trump without ruining my life?

VOX: I want to fight rising authoritarianism. But I’m scared of becoming a target.
by Sigal Samuel
Mar 6, 2025, 11:00 AM UTC

Original link:
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/400603/trump-resistance-activism-democracy-authoritarianism

Archived link:
https://archive.ph/8OCDF

Related to today's activism thread:
https://universeodon.com/@SrRochardBunson/114189248062851753

@redstateinsurgents

#ResInt #TTJ #trump #USPol #activism #Resistance

Thirty lonely but beautiful actions you can take right now:

"Enough scene-setting. Here are some ideas. In list form, but there’s a narrative if you’re looking for it. They’re all offered with love:

1. The next time you read an article about how USAID or the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau or the Department of Education is being attacked, remember that no matter how impactful the agency, movements don’t coalesce around acronyms– they are always about empathy for each other. Take a few minutes to research a specific program administered by those agencies that help people, and ring the alarm for everybody you know. Stop saying “Trump and Musk are the worst” and practice saying things like “Trump and Musk are sentencing millions of AIDS patients to death” or “Trump and Musk want credit card companies to rip us off” or “Trump and Musk just cut mental health and math tutoring resources for your kids’ school.”

https://thewhitepages.net/p/thirty-lonely-but-beautiful-actions

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4/?

#ResInt #TTJ #USPol

Thirty lonely but beautiful actions you can take right now:

"I don’t pretend that all it takes for a social movement to succeed is a bunch of individuals throwing the activist equivalent of spaghetti at so many isolated walls. Nothing I offer here will be enough. And yet, so many of us are waiting for something we can join, which presents a true opportunity to be the first person in your circle welcoming fellow travelers into halting, shaky, earnest action.

Finally, I’m certain that not all of these ideas are applicable to your situation. You’re tired. You’re busy. You’re sick. You don’t have a robust social network. You have anxiety about putting yourself out there. Those are all real. And also, my hope isn’t that every one of these is for you, but that a few might be. And if none fit the bill, what an opportunity: I’d love to hear your idea for what you and others could do."

https://thewhitepages.net/p/thirty-lonely-but-beautiful-actions

a 🧵 to make sure that this info is in the fediverse.

3/?

#ResInt #TTJ

Thirty lonely but beautiful actions you can take right now.

A preface: I wrote this for people who, like me, have spent much of the past few weeks hoping that somebody else would do something bolder in this political movement. We are downtrodden because we’re full of rage and heartbreak, but the polls tell us that our neighbors don’t share those feelings. We realize we’re seeing something that so many aren’t, but we’re not sure how to bridge the gap. We have wished (appropriately) for bravery from our media, from elected Democrats, from public officials in general. However fair those wishes are, they come with a risk: that we miss the opportunity to be the lonely voice for justice in our own community, the person who makes it a little easier for a second and third and fourth lonely voice to start perking up by our side.

https://thewhitepages.net/p/thirty-lonely-but-beautiful-actions

a 🧵 to make sure that this info is in the fediverse.

2/?

#ResInt #TTJ

This is a great article on the little things we all can do to help grow the grassroots including sticker activism.

"Thirty lonely but beautiful actions you can take right now which probably won't magically catalyze a mass movement against Trump but that are still wildly important"

Why? Because others will see you do them, and it will make it easier for them to take their own (slightly less lonely but equally beautiful) action by your side

https://thewhitepages.net/p/thirty-lonely-but-beautiful-actions

I will make a 🧵 to make sure that this info is in the fediverse.

1/?

#ResInt #ArtFED #Resist #Resistance #activist #AntifaAF #Antifa #antifascist #Sticker #Stickers

"Castles Made of Sand" buy #ArtFED & #ResInt

CC-BY-SA 4.0

https://mastodon.art/@clipart/114185040007673002

#Tesla #musk #ElonMusk #Meme #DigitalCollage

"Abolish ICE" buy #ArtFED & #ResInt

CC-BY-SA 4.0

https://aus.social/@mrandelbot/114155033978382854

#ICE #AntifaAF #FuckFascists

"Are there any more Luigi's in here?" wondered Pooh aloud.

https://mas.to/@pooh/114141148525772913

#Luigi #ResInt

#ResInt

#Tesla #Swasticar #meme #AntifaAF #ElonMusk #Hitler

Did Hitler cheat at backgammon?


#ResInt #ArtFED #hitler #musk #tesla #meme

Want to kill some fascists?

Play them this album.

CC-BY-SA 4.0

Read some #Arrabal & listen to an antifascist collaborative creative commons audio collage album, "This Cassette Kills Fascists" #TCKF

https://on.soundcloud.com/sb3U9

#ResInt #ArtFED #TTJ #HeirloomAlbum #HeirloomArt

Found the links to the OSS sabotage manual & Army document warning of domestic fascism.

#MPNCA #ABPN

CC-BY-SA 4.0

"Use the public domain to rebuild the creative commons."
#JoanMastodon #TTJ

https://archive.org/download/Simplesabotage/Simplesabotage.pdf

https://archive.org/details/ArmyTalkOrientationFactSheet64-Fascism/mode/1up

#AntifaAF #ResInt #Antifascist #Antifa #Fascist #Army #CIA #Sabotage #CreativeCommons #PublicDomain

Many of the fediverse musicians are using #Faircamp and other deshittified services.

https://faircamp.radiofreefedi.net/benjamindaass/

https://music.key13.uk/

https://music.undeadnetwork.de/

#BonkWave may or may not have it's own radio station?!?


https://not.what.i.call.radio.bonkwave.org/

Be a #FediPunk & #MPNCA

#FediMusic #FediRadio #ResInt #ArtFED

Be a #Fedipunk & be there for each other.

In fascism, culture is not your friend.

https://mtp-music.bandcamp.com/track/a-little-love

Give me a genre & I'll find you a new favorite artist.

#FediMusic #FediRadio #SingerSongwriter #ArtFED #ResInt

Who's up for designing a site to share info about #fascist small-business owners, so that anti-fascists can avoid patronizing them?

This thought brought to you because of a plumber wearing a "Tucker Carlson Show" hat & this work truck with a Bolsanaro sticker.

We could call it the #FashList!

#ResInt #ArtFED #AntifaAF #Antifa #Antifascist #TVAC