First and foremost, I’m not under the delusion that this is some form of serious praxis. While it may have some incredibly minor positive effect, this is me doing shit in my hobby time.
“Once a day I make a post scavenging some ancient anti-tankie meme made a decade ago on another site” is hardly a great expenditure of time or energy. Five minutes, and that’s if I have to search extra hard.
A nonzero amount of those billionaires and fascists continue to use red paint over their dictatorships, and continue to have their boots licked by the same people who fall for all the tankie tropes mocked in this comm.
We adjust our behaviors to the communities we run in - on the Fediverse, there are few brown fash, but a significant number of red fash - including three major instances. I post in political memes when I find an exceptional anti-brown fash meme, but for the most part it would be pouring a cup of salt water into the ocean - everyone on here is mostly on the side of “Fuck blackshirts and brownshirts”.
It may not be the most important praxis. But it’s absolutely important to keep repeating it. Like you say, here “fuck trump/Republicans” is a completely milquetoast, cookie cutter, boilerplate, uncontroversial statement. But there’s no shortage of empty headed campist, that think it’s okay when it’s their team. The image may only depict red fash, but the language is broad and inclusive enough for them all. And if it’s important enough, someone can add in depictions of Trump Musk and Thiel. It will still be as true.
Multiple reasons.
First and foremost, I’m not under the delusion that this is some form of serious praxis. While it may have some incredibly minor positive effect, this is me doing shit in my hobby time.
“Once a day I make a post scavenging some ancient anti-tankie meme made a decade ago on another site” is hardly a great expenditure of time or energy. Five minutes, and that’s if I have to search extra hard.
A nonzero amount of those billionaires and fascists continue to use red paint over their dictatorships, and continue to have their boots licked by the same people who fall for all the tankie tropes mocked in this comm.
We adjust our behaviors to the communities we run in - on the Fediverse, there are few brown fash, but a significant number of red fash - including three major instances. I post in political memes when I find an exceptional anti-brown fash meme, but for the most part it would be pouring a cup of salt water into the ocean - everyone on here is mostly on the side of “Fuck blackshirts and brownshirts”.
It may not be the most important praxis. But it’s absolutely important to keep repeating it. Like you say, here “fuck trump/Republicans” is a completely milquetoast, cookie cutter, boilerplate, uncontroversial statement. But there’s no shortage of empty headed campist, that think it’s okay when it’s their team. The image may only depict red fash, but the language is broad and inclusive enough for them all. And if it’s important enough, someone can add in depictions of Trump Musk and Thiel. It will still be as true.