The Great Fuckoffening has begun!

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We beat the fucking fascists by almost 5 million votes. It still means that near 60 million people voted for Bolsonaro and life won't be easy. But I hope this works as an inspiration for the upcoming elections.

US comrades, good luck! And thanks for your support in many ways!

Now we have to organize and mobilize US voters (and elsewhere) to learn how to fight with their weapons. I know this sub is against sharing social media posts, but unfortunately this is how we can mobilize people to vote and go beyond our left bubbles.

Historical background:
In 1941 Germany, Einsatzgruppen commanders warned Himmler that mass shootings were breaking their men. The men who carried out the executions suffered elevated rates of suicide, alcoholism, and breakdown, and Rudolf Höss recalled that many could not endure the killing and took their own lives.

Historian Christopher Browning documents how this psychological toll, along with manpower and secrecy problems, pushed the regime toward gas vans and then death camps.

The Nazis choose death camps because it was a final solution that would also help reduce the suicide rate of their elite shock troops.

The camps did not cure the damage. They just put distance, bureaucracy, and euphemism between the killers and their victims.

The lesson is that dehumanization is not something you do only to others. You have to suppress your own empathy to do it, and that suppression never switches off cleanly. You always end up dehumanizing yourself in the end.

A regime built on fascism and hate must keep spending resources on propaganda, euphemism, and enforcement just to keep its own people functional, which is one reason these systems run hot and brittle.

Often times it’s why fascist regimes collapse under their own weight. It’s hard to force all the people to be evil all the time as a group.

The inhuman requirement to mechanize cruelty demands the impossible from human psychology.

When two IDF soldiers took their own lives in Gaza after refusing or absorbing the horrific reality of their operations, they demonstrated that no modern military apparatus can fully insulate a soldier's mind from the self-destructive weight of ongoing dehumanization.

But behind every slammed door is a neighbor who’s ready for a whole new system.

By: Andre Easton

Source: https://www.instagram.com/reel/De2JA5VCKyc/

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Today, October 25th, is the day of the presidential runoff election in Brazil. Lula and Flavio—Bolsonaro’s son—are the candidates. Since early this morning, there has been a flood of reports and allegations that, upon arrival at polling stations, voters have found that votes had already been cast on the machines, or that they were being prevented from voting altogether. Earlier today, the Regional Electoral Court of the state of Bahia ordered the arrest of Salvador’s Secretary of Transportation, citing a reduction of more than 50% in bus services and the withholding of vehicles—with at least 75% to 100% of the fleet taken off the road or prevented from operating—thereby hindering voters from reaching the polls. In Brazil, free public transportation on election day is a legal right. Similar reports are also emerging from areas in São Paulo. Meanwhile, the president of the Superior Electoral Court (TSE), Kassio Nunes—a justice appointed by Bolsonaro during his administration (a despicable individual, neck-deep in a major recent corruption scandal involving Banco Master)—has stated that the TSE will investigate these allegations "in its own time," without confirming whether voting hours will be extended in the affected cities. Former President Lula has already made a public appeal, urging the TSE to extend the voting period. Many people, from all corners of Brazil and the world, traveled back to their home cities specifically to vote today. Coincidentally, the vast majority of those disenfranchised by this obstruction of public transport are Lula supporters. I am writing this filled with anxiety, sadness, and a great deal of rage. My country is currently undergoing a coup.

In a new short documentary by The Guardian, a colonizer with an American accent says that Gaza needs to be annexed and that if Palestinians don't like it "we will kill them" right before another colonizer says that what's being done to Palestinians is "soft and lackluster."

Video: Why young Israelis are voting more far right - The Guardian