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Same headline every day: Facist leader brings America further into Facism. Americans do nothing.
Some Americans are resisting in tons of different ways. There have been 24/7 "music festivals" (ICE protests that get labeled as music festivals because Tiktok will take down videos tagged with protests.) in LA and Portland for months now. Americans have been shot defending their neighbors, ICE agents have been shot.
It's important to remember that the Billionaires control the news and they won't air anything that makes it look like the common folk have a chance of resisting.
More reason public non profit news and radio is essential.
Also the reason those things are so expensive to run.
Show up in large groups, and show up ARMED.
C'mon man, you know Americans always do the right thing.
Once they've tried everything else.
hey that's not fair, sometimes we try the wrong thing twice.
Well we gotta make sure that the wrong thing wasn't actually the right thing we did wrong the first time around.
That's included in "everything else"
What should we do?
Something? Anything? Stop acting like this is normal and going about your daily lives like this is something that will blow over on its own.
An unorganized response to Jimmy Kimmel being silenced for insulting dear leader got him back on the air pretty quickly. Imagine what could be done with an organized response.
How to organize is most of the problem I think
Be prepared to do things that will get you arrested. Sorry, you didn’t do a damn thing when you were less at risk. You waited too long to fight. Now it’s going to be harder and you’re going to have to stop worrying about losing your job and maintaining your comfortable lifestyle. You and people like you are responsible for having let it get to this point.
this is an extremely unpopular but correct assessment, and the left is going to lose until they realize this. i don't know how to impress upon people the importance of physical resistance and rebellion. our leaders do not fear us because they have no reason to. think of the arsenal they have against us. they cannot lose as long as we remain divided, deprived, and destitute. we need to start through less physical means like coordinated mass labor strikes and organized community autonomous zones, but we must be prepared and willing to extend our resistance to a violent reach. the state enacts violence on us every single day through legal measures and economic manipulation. we are within our right to self-defense of the system we are enslaved to. disrupt communication lines, destroy their resources, burn their storages, and do what you can to avoid retributive violence. resist the urge to work solo and coordinate your strategy with a team.
this isn't paranoia. i hate that i have to state this so bluntly but so few of us are appropriately responding and preparing. if nothing happens, hey, great! wonderful. but shit has been moving fast. it hasn't been a year of this administration and we have three more. you don't want to be stuck somewhere in six months because you thought things "were bad but not that bad." it's that bad, i promise. get your passports, leave your Red state if you are able to especially if you are a minority.
Trump's FBI is considering designating transgender Americans as extremists on a federal watch list. i shouldn't have to explain why that simply cannot be allowed to happen. we agree, right? ...right?
Industrial sabotage, catfishing/exposing, destruction of infrastructure, clandestine press/broadcasting, tax resistance- there's plenty that can be done without hurting people.
there is, of course, but we shouldn't avoid the possibility of that being necessary.
Such as? Or just in general?
Be real with me for a second.
Are you 1) legitimately clueless about what you could be doing (in which case, honestly, I don’t care if they put you in an unmarked van), or 2) trying to bait me into saying something that‘a going to get me a ban (in which case, honestly, I don’t care if they put you in an unmarked van)?
Vote Green.
You're not going to vote your way out of fascism.