Resist: It's Time

Now that he is out, the Proud Boys leader wants revenge, he told Alex Jones, the conspiracy theorist host of Info Wars.

“The people who did this, they need to feel the heat, they need to be put behind bars, and they need to be prosecuted,” Tarrio said.

“Success is going to be retribution,” he added. “We gotta do everything in our power to make sure that the next four years sets us up for the next 100 years.”

In case you were wondering what all those pardons were for. That last quote sounds like some Fourth Reich shit.

You're going to need to be vigilant about fact checking the information you come across. Meta (FB, Insta, WhatsApp), X/Twitter, TikTok are all fascist mouthpieces at this point, and you don't have to use those services directly yourself for the messages they amplify to reach you.

Don't just be suspicious of those messages you oppose. Be as suspicious of rage-bait, and messages you are already primed to agree with. This is how propaganda works: by taking advantage of what people already want to believe.

If you can't find decent sources about the thing you're seeking to verify, set that thing aside. If you can find one source, or the same story being repeated multiple places, be skeptical. Be aware that early reporting on events as they unfold can easily be wrong in ways that impact the accuracy of the reporting, even if the story is substantially true as a whole.

Information gaps - where one party has more, or more accurate, information than another party - are how power is leveraged. When you take steps to be factually accurate, in line with objective reality, you are shrinking the power of those who would like to control you.

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka criticized ICE agents for "raiding" a local business without a warrant, detaining several individuals, including U.S. citizens, a military veteran, and undocumented immigrants.

When they come, they are not going to have warrants. They're just going to strongarm and intimidate their way in, and they're going to detain people without cause.

• Do you have a warrant? No? Go get one then.
• I decline to answer any questions.
• I do not consent to any search.

And I know this sounds real "sovcit," but they're right on this one:

• Am I being detained, or am I free to go? If you are free to go, go. If you are being detained, shut the fuck up.

From Barrio Drive's free resources. Standing up for our immigrant communities is a team effort. Posts like this one help people avoid dangerous situations. Verify your facts and don't spread misinformation.

Below is a list of defendants charged in federal court in the District of Columbia related to crimes committed at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C, on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021.

This page is no longer linked to from its parent page (https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc).

If someone knows better than I do how to download all of this information before it goes in the memory hole, that's probably a good idea.

Seems to be mostly on archive.org, including PDFs.

Documents, including phone number and invitation to ‘join us’, distributed same day Trump took office

Anyone in Kentucky want to see what they can find out?

Out of them was produced a secret handbook developed on how to break down prisoners. The key was using shock to reduce adults to a childlike state.

I just got back from a long drive to nowhere. My welcome back was a litany of posts about all of the ridiculous things Trump did this afternoon.

This is going to be a marathon, not a sprint. None of us, together or alone, are going to be able to really change anything for a long, long time. It's going to get worse before it gets better, and I don't see a light at the end of the tunnel. Yet.

Do not expect any of your actions to have immediate or visible effects. The strength will be in the cumulative efforts of everyone who is able to put obstacles in the way of the fascists, no matter how small those efforts may be. "Did you see something? No you didn't." If that's what you're able to do, that's good.

Be prepared, build contacts, look for opportunities. I'm a big proponent of everyone carrying pepper spray. Learn some first aid. If you're a gun owner, practice. Talk to people you trust. Let them know that they can come to you if they need to, or if they know someone who needs support. Protect people who are being threatened. The insurrectionists just got pardoned, so they're definitely making fresh plans; listen for those plans. Take note that if you're going to be on the "support" side of things, you will probably want to avoid being actively subversive, and vice versa. Above all, be careful. Of course, there will be risks no matter what, but honestly, we're all at much greater risk now regardless.

Good luck.

Good set of resources

What country before ever existed a century and half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Jefferson is not without his problems, many of them. He was also brilliant.

Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was a ProPublica reporter.

This guy is a hell of an example, but do not put yourself in harm's way blindly. Most resistance is going to be the "pecked to death by ducks" kind, and that's just fine.

Choose as your New Year’s mantra that great civic-minded slogan: ‘If you saw something, no you didn’t’.

There are all kinds of resistance. Some are more "active" than others, and it is your call as to how active you're able to be.

If your situation makes it so that you're less able to engage in civil disobedience or direct subversion, you can still resist in other ways. "Not snitching" is one of those ways.

https://lemmy.world/post/23844728

https://slrpnk.net/post/16849607

Reposting this, because it's becoming much more relevant, even in the month since I originally posted it.

When someone follows a reporter for forty miles, then physically assaults them while shouting about "Trump's America now," and there needs to be an investigation to see if there might be a "bias-influenced" incident, you'd damned well better be ready to defend yourself.

It's only a matter of time before harassments escalate more widely. Be prepared.

Recipients—including a mayor—were told to surveil "brown folks" at churches, schools, and stores.

This is what needs resisting.

The Mulford Act was a 1967 California bill that prohibited public carrying of loaded firearms without a permit. Named after Republican assemblyman Don Mulford and signed into law by governor of California Ronald Reagan, the bill was crafted with the goal of disarming members of the Black Panther Party, which was conducting armed patrols of Oakland neighborhoods in what would later be termed copwatching.

And the NRA fought for more gun control as well.

The Second Amendment is unassailable - until the "wrong people" decide to embrace it.

Be one of the "wrong people."

In between his posts on Truth Social announcing nominees for his incoming administration, President-elect Donald Trump urged Republicans Wednesday to nix a bipartisan bill that would give journalists greater protections under federal law.

Protect the Fourth Estate.

“The biggest act of resistance that trans people can do in this country is to refuse to die," said one trans person who fled Texas with TikTok's help.

I'm personally a bigger fan of "elbow grease" assistance over financial assistance, because there will be scammers who take advantage. But it's absolutely true that financial assistance is something that people definitely need in order to stay safe.

If you choose to participate in this kind of essentially anonymous mutual aid, be careful, be diligent.

Class war sounds ugly, but it’s exactly what Republicans and their billionaire backers have been waging against working class Americans for 43 years now. It’s damn well time to fight back by declaring a class war of our own.

This article lays out a pretty good argument for a way to start getting through all this, if there's the political will to put it into action. It seems to me that the response to the UHC CEO death signals that people are primed for it.

Some of us have the luxury of being able to openly call out bullshit. If you are one, do that where and when you find it, do that for the people who don't have that luxury and need to hunker down and get ready for the worst.

A recent neo-Nazi rally in Columbus, Ohio, drew national attention—but it was just one of dozens that increasingly-emboldened white power groups have held this year.

This is why resistance is necessary.

The Schrader valve (also called American valve) is a type of pneumatic tire valve used on virtually every motor vehicle in the world today.

You can get valve core tools for real cheap at any auto parts store or bike shop, probably hardware stores, too.

Probably not a bad idea to keep one of these handy, and some valve cores, too, just in case some miscreant decides to use their valve core tool to steal yours. Of course, you'll also want to have your own tire inflator handy to reinflate all four of your completely flat tires afterwards.

Without this preparedness, you could find yourself with a disabled vehicle.

The Simple Sabotage Field Manual listed tactics average citizens could employ to destabilize their government and help hasten its demise.

This manual was produced in January 1944 by the OSS (precursor to the CIA).

https://dyconcretepumps.com/impact-of-sugar-in-concrete/

The specifics in the screenshot are a bit "legendy," but the concept is real. Sugar does impede the setting of concrete.

Those of us who plan to stick around in the US and proudly express ourselves will likely become targets of the new administration. Now is a good time to check the settings on your phone to protect yourself from government overreach. Understand the risks. @eff

In all 50 states and Washington D.C., it is legal to use pepper spray for self-defense purposes.

If you don't already have pepper spray, you should get it, one for everyone in your household, and you should carry it.