I don’t think your logic is fucked frankly, it makes sense to me. The only thing I disagree with is that I think killing yourself is still giving the fascists a win. They don’t want you in their world anyway, you ending yourself just saves them the work of doing it themselves.

I fully empathize with the lack of hope, for me mainly about the climate. On the fascism side I can cling to the historical precedent that fascists are eventually bound to lose, even if they’ll cause untold damage in the meantime, but with the climate I don’t have the same hope. I simply don’t see the world having anything close to the level of collective resolve that would be needed to avert a complete catastrophe, and we’re already maybe beyond the point of no return. Every year from now on that we spend battling fascism is one more year of collective effort not spend on avoiding irreparable damage to the world’s ecosystems. We’re waist deep in the rising waters, but we can’t swim to safety because there’s a guy coming at us with a knife, and by the time we’re done fighting him the water will be at our neck anyway.

I don’t really have any words of comfort for you here. I generally oscillate between the selfish and defeatist idea of just enjoying the little privilege I have while it lasts, and the idealistic one of going out fighting even if it’s hopeless. The problem with the latter idea is that frankly I have no idea how to. It turns out that studying history a lot has prepared me well to recognize the rise of fascism, but not to know how to fight back. The material conditions we live in today are so much different than in past iterations of fascism that there’s not a lot of actionable lessons I can learn from looking at past resistance movements. The grassroots activism I do feels increasingly pointless, and I don’t see any serious organized resistance movement I could join anywhere.

It’s bleak out here. The only real argument I can make against you doing it is, frankly, spite. Don’t give them the win. Stay alive to spite them.

Yeah India is rough for solo-travelling fems. Most fems I’ve met who’ve been to India without issues traveled with masc companions (partners / friends / travel buddies met on the road).

I can confirm that continental South-East Asia is a lot safer.

Shitposting from the Rojava frontline really does give you bragging rights few in the world can claim

Brace makes me want to stop posting for good because I know I’ll never even get close to his level