Mastodawn

Loyalty shifts are key to defeating autocrats: As fissures among Trump supporters widen, we all have a role to play in creating the conditions for #defection & loyalty shifts “… a crucial, if overlooked…strategy must involve creating the conditions for loyalty shifts among those who legitimize & provide resources to the administration. This will weaken its hold on power & open space for…renewal of…constitutional values.” | Adam Fefer/Maria J. Stephan, Waging #Nonviolence https://wagingnonviolence.org/2026/03/why-loyalty-shifts-are-key-to-defeating-autocrats/

Why loyalty shifts are key to defeating autocrats

As fissures among Trump supporters widen, we all have a role to play in creating the conditions for defection and loyalty shifts.

Waging Nonviolence

MOC-València 3d ago

The military attack by the US and Israel against Iran on Saturday, 28 February 2016, is an unjustifiable crime against the Iranian people, humanity and an attack on world peace.

#Peace #NoWars #Antimilitarism #NoImperialism #Nonviolence #NoMilitarySpending

Rita, antifascist 🏴🦯🦯🦯4d ago

“While violence is a driving force for the far right, which uses it without restraint against all minorities or those who defend them, the struggles of antifascism require organizing means of self-defense to counter it…

It is precisely the essence of antifascism to question the limits of the violence that we are sometimes forced to use against groups for whom violence is not a means, but an end…

We must also rid ourselves of the political illusion of nonviolence as a means to combat the far right and fascism. Since violence is its very essence, we know it will be used against our social camp (with a vicious appetite that grassroots antifascists have all already witnessed), and we must equip ourselves with the means to defend ourselves. Sometimes, the best defense is a good offense, as the history of antifascism attests.”

#antifa #nonviolence #selfdefense
https://lahorde.info/Violence-fasciste-anti-antifascisme-auto-defense-et-non-violence-nos-reflexions

Violence fasciste, anti-antifascisme, auto-défense et non-violence : nos réflexions après la mort d'un néofasciste à Lyon – La Horde

Suite à la mort du militant néofasciste Quentin Deranque à Lyon, c'est le narratif de l'extrême droite qui a surtout été relayé par les médias. La campagne anti-antifasciste lancée il y a plus de dix…

La Horde

Alternatives non-violentes 4d ago

le numéro 218 d' #ANV est sorti !

Quelle désobéissance civile aujourd'hui ?

https://www.alternatives-non-violentes.org/Revue/Numeros/218_Quelle_desobeissance_civile_aujourdhui

#nonviolence #Désobéissance_Civile #DesobeissanceCivile

Tony McQuail 5d ago

Tony has this to say about the attempt to change regimes in Iran by waging violence and warfare. page 1/5 #ndp2026 #ndp #iran #regimechange #peace #nonviolence

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Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩5d ago

@madameoconnel86

i draw a line from #nonviolence airheads to nonvoting assholes

you have to fight in this world

you *have* to

you #vote and you fight

same thing

the powers that be need to understand fight is in our hearts

does anyone really think a nonvoter is a fighter? ha! they are just inert, lazy, entitled whining lumps

the powers that be see that, and ignore them

everyone should ignore "philosophies" that are impotent bullshit that will, in the end, just meekly submit to #fascism

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Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩5d ago

@madameoconnel86

people cite #Gandhi as nonviolence that worked

it's not true

same with #MLK

MLK would not exist without #MalcolmX

and Gandhi would not exist without Bose:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subhas_Chandra_Bose

that is, the British didn't want to fight, they were exhausted from #WWII. and so the colonizers could be persuaded to be "magnanimous" and accept Gandhi's terms, *only* because the threat of violence existed in the wings

the pop-culture understanding of #nonviolence is a lie

Gandhi knew this: