there was an 80's style Aerobics class held outside an ice facility a few days ago.
analysis from a redd*tor
some are saying this is a case example of tactical frivolity,
or trying to be charitable but disagreeing with application; the "clown army"
this phenomenon reminds me of the 'Somebody needs to do it' video from Taylor Lorenz, if i am to be charitable - there is this hard wall that has been hit with all those in disdain with the USisan government.
I am of the opinion that progressing beyond these current actions such as this ICE "demonstration" would required well built structures that could sustain people, or make them feel confident in their networks for whatever government action thrown against them. All while having a party that exists under the current legal framework that represents their interests - I think of the ETA faction in Spain, with their overground and underground networks, similar things would have to exist for progress to be made.
>Fascism turns politics into spectacle, canalising popular anxieties and demands into the realm of the aesthetic, substituting symbolism for material change. The response must be to repoliticize social struggle, which requires meeting fascism at the level at which it actually exercises power, which is at the level of capital and the instruments of state violence and coercion that protect it. By turning resistance into spectacle, these kinds of actions play on fascism’s turf, conceding to its attempts to depoliticise and disarm political struggle. In this sense, these people are not opposing the concentration camp; they are decorating it.