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How do you all stay calm with all this pressure (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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Obviously a lot of people here hide a lot of information. What is keeping you all from extreme stress considering the possibility that a government is spying on your actions despite strict privacy practices? Considering my current situation and my extreme threat model it feels like the privacy walls around me are closing in. I'm very paranoid. I do a lot of risky and dangerous shit on the internet. Every knock on my door and phone call feels like the police. I don't talk with others about what I do and I'm always hiding my internet activity from others. Any thoughts would be helpful

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[–] 7 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

Some of us think the best way to do that is to build parallel systems of mutual aid (which isn't illegal) to support each other when things become difficult instead of violence. Especially considering the fascists are trying to foment violence as an excuse to clamp down with martial law and cancel elections. Parallel systems would instead allow us to house, clothe, and feed each other during something like a general strike, which is much more likely to cause a deep impact than fruitlessly trying to violently attack one of the best outfitted and funded militaries on the planet which commands surveillance systems that make our meager attempts at privacy seem foolish at best and downright fucking stupid at worst.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Except that fascists will invent excuses whenever there isn't violence at all.

    Example: Portland, Los Angeles, literally anywhere with an American gestapo presence.

    I believe it is worth combatting their surveillance. Our liberty is not a given but needs to be taken. What is stupid is holding too much defeatism.

    Mutual aid, as you said, is good; but it should not be the only resort. Against fascism, everything should be considered a valid resort.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago*

    Except that fascists will invent excuses whenever there isn't violence at all.

    True, but why make their jobs easier? The more propaganda they have to produce over reality means more truth slips through.

    I believe it is worth combatting their surveillance. Our liberty is not a given but needs to be taken. What is stupid is holding too much defeatism.

    Gonna just have to agree to disagree on that. I feel capable of privacy measures intended to stop basic corporate adware surveillance, but the idea that we as individuals can battle the tools and capabilities of well funded nation state with agencies like the NSA and CIA involved seems to smack of hubris to me.

    Mutual aid, as you said, is good; but it should not be the only resort.

    I agree, but I don't think you're going to be able to organize and mobilize the citizens against an authoritarian takeover without parallel systems being set up first. Otherwise fascist disaster capitalists will just use their control of such systems against us.

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