FreeSchool = W🔁rk T🔁gether☑<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://wandering.shop/@Violinknitter" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Violinknitter</span></a></span> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Authoritarianism</span></a> 101 <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/AltText" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AltText</span></a> <br>Added to orig post <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/FreeSchool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSchool</span></a> </p><p>===============<br>Text from Picture reads:<br>===============</p><p>Here's my pep talk after studying authoritarianism:</p><p>1) They never truly expect a long-term resistance movement be they think people are a collection of trauma triggers who are easily controlled thru terror.</p><p>2) If they can't terrorize you 24/7 in your mind, they have already lost the war.</p><p>3) The single best way you can resist fascism is to not let them terrorize you constantly. Protect your mental health to ensure you are not constantly in a terrorized state.</p><p>4) Keep connecting to who you are at your core. Your values, preferences, ethics, and beliefs. Build up capacity to resist.</p><p>5) Remember they are like abusive parents: they only see us extensions of them. They have no clue how powerful joy and community and self-expression can be. We can use this to our advantage — we can be the strong-willed child they never saw coming.</p><p>Spending time connecting to your true self is not selfish in these times — it's intricately connected to a resistance movement that is tied to honoring our bodies, our communities, and to the land. We have to build capacity to resist by being exactly who we are! </p><p>Authoritarianism post by D.L. Mayfield from "Healing is My Special Interest"...</p><p><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Terror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Terror</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Fear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fear</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Control" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Control</span></a> <br>+ People can't make friends (that's part of this equation too)</p><p>All is risky but some much less - The answer is towards <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Friendship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Friendship</span></a> to save the world that bit more... more than <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/war" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>war</span></a> / <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/fear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fear</span></a> </p><p>❤️ 🕊️ ❤</p>