HeavenlyPossum“Don’t fight back against the fascists, you’ll just give them an excuse to crack down on us” reflects a catastrophic misunderstanding of what fascism is or what motivates them to act.
EndicottRoad59@HeavenlyPossum I refuse to be intimidated.
Levka@EndicottAuthor @HeavenlyPossum
Better we should intimidate bullies than to let them intimidate us. I did. I was a scrawny, four-eyed nerd with chronic bronchitis. I was an obvious grade school target. I was much to weak to fight back if I fought fair. So I didn't. I put a bar of soap in a sock in my back pocket with the top sticking out so I could draw it quickly. Then I waited for them to come to me. Then I knocked a bully down with it. Boy was he surprised. Before he could get back up I jumped on top of him and beat his face black, blue and bloody. It wasn't on school property so I didn't get in trouble.
The next day his friend threatened me, also not on school property. I pulled out the sock and he fell over his own feet trying to back up before I hit him. I beat him bloody, too.
After that the bullies left me alone. That sock hanging out of my pocket served as an excellent deterrent.
I had fought like a berserker in ríastrad, so I must be "crazy". Nobody wants to fight a "crazy" person because you don't know what they might do. They might bit your nose off or something. They might not accept your surrender. Most mammals when they know they're beaten expose their belly and whimper. Most mammals stop fighting when the other mammal gives up. Not "crazy" people. Sometimes they just keep fighting. So the bullies at my school decided that discretion was the better part of valor. As well they should have. I was a dangerous kid.
Up until my stroke I was dangerous adult, too. My balance is kind of wonky now. I'm also seriously old. I cough a lot from my COPD. My main finger still works, though.
So the wise move for bullies everywhere is don't f*ck with me. It's a sure way to live longer.
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Levka (@LevZadov@kolektiva.social)
I'm a boomer. I own guns. I'm too old and disabled to soldier. I'd be a danger to myself and others. But I am capable of defending our home. So's my SO. If a #MAGAt pogrom ever heads for our place we're going to take the first dozen down with us. Guns are for self-defense, not revolutions. There is no military solution to capitalism, or even it's tool fascism. We tried that. It didn't work. It's not a military problem. It's a social problem. So I'm hoping we can sort out our burgeoning fascism problem without any bloodshed. Fascists are bullies. That's what the word means. "Except for the relatively small number of Fascist sympathizers, almost any English person would accept 'bully' as a synonym for 'Fascist'. That is about as near to a definition as this much-abused word has come." -- George Orwell Not all cowards are bullies but all bullies are cowards. With a sufficient show of our overwhelmingly superior numbers we can back them down. But we'd better have a Plan B.
@LevZadov @HeavenlyPossum Great story. And I'm sad to say that you were far more brave than I was at that age.