Ti uniresti alla resistenza se bloccato in un regime autoritario?

I’m already in

Let’s Try not to End in an Authoritarian Regime so that We do not Have to Find Out.

Seriously, what is with the capitalization in those titles.

I don’t see other options. 

I think you can only truly answer that if you’re in that position.

It’s easy saying yes if there’s no cost. And I think people here saying no might surprise themselves, or just get in a position where it makes sense to join.

It is such a dystopic era to live in, when such a question become a reasonable one

As much as I’d like to imagine myself as a brave individual, I would probably not.

I’d like to think I’d join the fight for freedom. In an authoritarian regime, standing up for what’s right would be worth the risk.

Lol, feels like someone is seriously disociating if they have to ask this. Serbia, N.Macedonia, Greece, Turkey and Hungary say hi dude.

I want to say I would. My grandparents did. I’d like to see myself as someone who would. There’s a pretty good chance I’d kinda *have* to, little choice about it.

But I think most people overestimate their courage. In fact, looking back at my own experience: It took great effort to overcome my reluctance to engage in conflict, every time, and every time I did, nobody around me stepped up with me. No matter how violent it got. Every time, they’d tell me that *next* time, they’d be there for me… But they never were. Every next time, they’d turn away. Looking ashamed of themselves, but not changing.

That’s the measure of humanity. We don’t know we’re cowards. We’re high on our own bravery until things actually happen. Most of us who sign up simply do so because they don’t appreciate the danger and discomfort they’re signing up for, and by the time it’s there, there’s simply no turning back. They wouldn’t sign up if they were in the middle of the action already.

And those of us who do… I’m convinced a lot of them, like me, are equally cowardly, but driven by a sense of internalized peer pressure about concepts of duty and ‘doing the right thing.’ Not special, just… Believing narratives in different ways, to an extent where it weights more heavily than our conflict avoidance.

At the end of the second world war, suddenly *loads* of Dutch men were ‘resistance.’ Full of bravado, they sought to restore their honour by, after the war’s end, go kill people in the colonies. Hoo-rah. In reality, many of them had been collaborating themselves, out of fear. *Most* of them had simply kept their heads down hoping *they* wouldn’t be carted off to the labour-camps. Only when the war was already pretty much won did they step up, and their main act of resistance was beating up women who’ve been used by the occupier (some of whom *were* active collaborators, sure, but most? Most of them were just as afraid as the men that beat them up for it, trying to get by).

If you’re going to state, without a doubt, that you will join the resistance, that you *will* resist and fight back… You need to recon with yourself first. You need to be aware that you’re living in a delusion, and when the time comes and it is stripped away, you need to want to do it anyway. If you don’t recon with yourself, you will be those men beating up women when the war’s done.

Yeh cause a halfblind cripple in a wheelchair is so usefull.

Immafion fbe frustration of the CIA daiding a resistance base and finding me.
“What do wrle have here”
” i dunno i cant see
*turns on light*
,lol that aint helping dumbass”

My great grandparents on both sides fought in the resistance and the stories they passed onto my grandparents are straight out of a movie script. It’s without question the part of my family’s history that I am proudest of, and I often feel undeserving of being able to tell their stories. They were basically superheroes of that time. Few and far between.

I like to think that I’d do the right thing if someone ever came to my door and gave me the nightmare ultimatum, “tell us or we kill everyone you love.”

The term “Good Germans” exists for a reason. Most of us wouldn’t do the right thing but we still spend our time reading history as if we’re the protagonists.

Thing about authoritarism is that you can live just fine under it if you just mind your own business. Only form of resistance that is relatively safe is non-cooperation. But it will come at cost of losing opportunities, like choosing lesser paying jobs if that means not working for governement. How many people will do that? Considering that you have no idea how long said regime will last and you won’t have any advantages once it fall. So a lot of people who say that they’ll joing “resistance” are lying.

If I’m being honest, probably not, and most likely I would try to flee.