ID: 3 stills from A Bullet for Baldwin (1956)
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Alfred Hitchcock says “I’ve just come into possession of a cure for fascism”
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He sets some bullets on his desk and says “they come in capsule form. For best results, they must be taken internally.”
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He holds up a revolver and says “here is the handy applicator.”
Wellp, honestly we know whats going to happen now. corpos are gonna get “permission” for anything they ask for. Lets actively deny them. Organise, become engaged in local government and dont be afraid to sabotage and resist. In short, no one wants status quo, lets make shit better.
Are you going to walk the walk or just talk the talk like all of those that supported fascism with their non-voting to score “I’m a leftist, really” cred at the expense of all of the peoples that are now going to have genocide?
I surely will and there’s no shame in it or any other expression of sorrow by a man, woman, or enbie. I’m afraid, however, that I have neither the patience, nor ability to give you empathy for those that are currently are and will soon be suffering and dying because of people who care more about their own moral purity than other human beings. If you’re unable to reach that capacity on your own, maybe therapy would be a good option (many professionals offer sliding scales, so if you have a challenge with that, I’d be happy to try to help you find someone in your area that could help).
You’re jumping the gun (no pun intended) a bit too far here.
You have to wait until fascism is literally tearing apart the whole world before you attempt that remedy. In the meantime, we just watch the world slowly burn.
Thanks America.
“it could never happen here”
Until it does
Then all future historians look back and say
“How sad they couldn’t see the writing on the walls even when it was so plainly obvious. It’s an indictment on that society as a whole that there were no armed revolutionaries fighting against the fascists when they started making moves in the mid to late 2010s.”
Yeah, that’s the thing, this has been obvious for a while now. I’ve been screaming it from the rooftops
And what answers did I get?
“Naaaah, that will never happen, stop being so alarmist, it’s going to be fine” or any of the numerous alternatives to this
…especially the “what do you mean? We live in the best time of history!! Just look at all these stats” which always infuriates me to no end
Well, what good are those stats now?
Everyone here helped get us to where we are now.
Thank you.
Well, shut up and do it.
