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This traitor is going to have to watch his back for the rest of his life.
He'll never have freedom of movement again.
What a bovino...
Can we assign his name as a noun like a bucket of hot santorum?
“You have made your ruling, now let us see you enforce it.”
We need ways to fight back without putting ourselves in danger.
Like drones?
Besides reading Full Spectrum Resistance, here are concrete steps we can take to combat the regime with our last non-violent pathways (the titles below expand if you click them).
Learn First Aid! ⛑️
The future us likely to be violent, and It extremely important to have the skills to be able to keep yourself and others alive if they get hurt. You can never have too many medics.
Tacticool Girlfriend provides a great introduction to building a personal first aid kit, called an IFAK, which can deal with things like bullet wounds and other serious bleeding wounds. I also want to emphasize her recommendation of only buying medical gear from reputable sources (not Amazon!), such as North American Rescue to avoid fakes that could cost you your life.
But you'll need to learn how to use that equipment, too. The best resource for that is to take a local Stop The Bleed class, which are pretty widely available in most places. They may cost a small fee, but can also sometimes be free. Alternatively, if you cannot access a local class, this video by PrepMedic will give you a solid understanding of how to use Tourniquets and Gauze for wound packing.
Injuries are less harmful if they are tended to early. Learning first aid can help conserve resources when healthcare becomes unaffordable. Having several medics in case of harm by police is an extremely powerful morale booster during a protest that may become a police riot. When you become comfortable with the basics of first aid, riot medicine is the next suggested step.
Establish or join local Mutual Aid networks ✊
If you haven't already, get to know your neighbors. Mutual aid is a willingness to support and grow your community. This can include informal networks through friends, tenant/renter organizations, solidarity groups, and industrial unions.
These are groups using direct action to solve each other's problems. Building strong communities makes it difficult for fascism to take root. The actions of the government are going to hit every community hard, and the ones who build trust in each other and work together are most likely to survive. We've been building a list of resources in !inperson@slrpnk.net to help you on your way. Also check out this handy guide to find existing groups in your area.
This isn't only for your own community protection. Your ability to organize today will change the political landscape tomorrow. When revolution occurs, the social organizations that show the greatest resilience through the regime are the ones typically calling the shots when the dust settles. When it comes to elections, get out the vote drives are useless if most of the voters are fascists. At some point, you have to do grassroots political education if you don't want fascist candidates winning elections. Mutual aid networks are excellent forums not only for teaching each other good political ideas, but demonstrating them in practice.
Join a Union and Prepare for a General Strike! 💪
The most effective non-violent action we can take is preparing and organizing for a General Strike.
The country would be brought to its knees if suddenly deprived of profit and labor. That tactic was extremely effective in Chile in 2019, and had they not fallen for the trick of liberal reform, they would've had a successful revolution on their hands with virtually no bloodshed.
If you aren't in a union (or even if you are, it's worth dual-carding), consider joining the IWW to unionize your workplace (bonus: you'll get higher wages, better benefits, and more time off if you succeed!) to strengthen a general strike if we manage to enact one, as most unions have a strike fund that can supplement your income during a general strike to make it more financially bearable (you should also save as much money as you can reasonably do, so it can also be used to keep yourself afloat during a strike).
And for our international friends, you should join one as well, as fascism is gaining momentum globally. If your country isn't listed below, just contact the IWW directly in the link above, and they'll help you set up a new local branch.
Adopt Security Culture and Digital Camouflage 🛡️
Sometimes benign seeming efforts can turn into unexpected personal data collecting traps. Like an obscure website for exchanging contact info with other students turning into a global ad-tech surveillance network (Facebook), or innocent seeming online personality tests being use to harvest character profiles. Even Etsy, Reddit, Tinder, and Duolingo are feeding information to US Government Agencies like ICE.
Security culture is commonly used to describe the general awareness of such potential traps and how it can affect groups or entire communities. This goes beyond mere individual privacy efforts, as without joint efforts these often fail to work.
Especially in activist circles, security culture is paramount. For opsec reasons not everyone in the group might be aware of what clandestine efforts others are involved in, but with a general security culture many potential data leaks can be avoided.
Movements are made by the volume of their participants, and the easier and less dangerous it is to participate, the more people will get involved. As more people get involved, individual involvement becomes even less dangerous, creating a virtuous cycle.
We'll start it off with some General Advice:
For a full guide on what encrypted communications platforms to use, and how to stay off the radar, read the Digital Camouflage section within the Monthly Meta post here (you'll need to scroll down. I'd add it here, but it won't fit in this comment).
There isn't. That's the whole point of fascism.
It's not a fascism thing. It's a state thing. No state will give its citizens the (legal) ability to fight back against its enforcement arm.
Information is the best way to fight fascism
We're still trying to win enough support to do so is the thing. The normally apathetic need to be against the regime otherwise they'll just narc on people. They have to feel affected in some way and I don't think anything less than the next large demonstration of ICE just gunning them all down in the street will do.
Like another comment or said: there isn't. Everyone is a target, even if they're not the target this week.
Take a look at what was done to protestors of the past. Even in recent years before this administration, they were gassed, beat, and made into criminals for exercising their right to assemble and express themselves. There are always "reasons" they were treated poorly but we must not be fooled: these reasons are hollow, don't hold up to scrutiny, and are often outright fabrications. The lies you are to believe from their narratives is 1) someone in the vicinity destroyed property or acted in an "uncivil" way and 2) that means that everyone in the vicinity gets their rights taken away, and 3) if they resist their rights being shelved then they are met with violence.
It's important to realize that none of this is new. This is par for the course, and the tools and narratives have been in use for generations. I'm gonna say it again: this is not new, it's just more overt and laid bare for more people to see and realize.
You and I as working people are led to believe that if we just be meek and mild we'll effect change. We are supposed to believe that not inconveniencing the state and being compliant will get us to our desired ends. On the other side of our struggle, the many forms of violence ARE the means by which change and control is effectuated.
This isn't a call to violence, just an acknowledgement that violence is being used upon us as working class people and the inevitable end of that will be more violence, as history has shown. We need to disillusion ourselves of the hope that we can somehow deal with our problems in the warm comfort of safety. There is no guarantee of safety. We need to formulate our responses upon that reality, first and foremost, or we open ourselves to fragility and bewilderment at the violence that will most assuredly come upon us.
(Almost) No one wants this, but we need to be honest with ourselves about the reality that we face.
even speaking about pacifist resistance is enough to be labeled a domestic terrorist
what we need are people who aren't so pusillanimous they can't say what they really mean.
This is an interesting [article] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D.C._sniper_attacks), though I’m not,ahem, sure how it applies to this conversation.
That tiny little fella needs a hug real bad.
From a trash compacter.
"Take the picture of me from a low angle so I look like I'm all grown up"
The photographer is just closer to the ground to lick the boot.
The US needs some serious Hague style prosecutions. Sad thing is, their democrats won't do it...
I’m rooting for French style revolution…the democrats just voted to give ice more money today because they were afraid of being considered anti law and order while bowing down to a pedofile child murdering insurrectionist who is controlled by a genocide committing war criminal…they look pretty soft on crime to me
I'm confused who the democrats are actually performing for. They have to know that at the next election the republicans are going to get steamrollered and if they play their cards right they can come out on top.
Yet they do stuff like this, as if they're trying to pander to MAGAs, as if that's all help their electoral chances.
They're controlled opposition, at least at the national level. They're the carrot to the stick, but both are being wielded by the same people.
I would guess they aren't really Democrats, they are getting big donations from MAGA backers, or most likely they know voters won't bother to vote them out during the primaries. Some may be unopposed.
My guess is they are still gun shy from the defund the police movement after George Floyd.
i prefer french revolution style prosecutions.