I’m investing in China so I can profit from the Chinese century and America’s fall
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Seeing the suggestions here gives me some pause.
The SRA is a fine entry organization. Join that. Shut the fuck up about sectarian issues, make some friends.
Buy a 9mm Glock and an AR 15 chambered in .556.
Next you need to start training. Local range for paper static targets. Dry fire.
Try the dry fire drills.
After that, start learning shoot and move drills. At this point you need a belt, holster, plate carrier, level 4 plate, ifak and radio (baofeng).
You need friends. There are going to be local groups in major cities. They're not going to have a Twitter. You are going to need to wear patches at competitions or start making face to face friends.
At this point you're better trained than the fucking feds fucking around.
I have seen nothing from DSA or PSL that is remotely ready for what I think comes next.
NB: one untrained person with an AR 15 scared the shit out of all the cops at Uvalde.
There is no de-escalation coming from this regime and there is nothing the dems are going to do. Trump could dissolve Congress and we'll get some angry letters in response. If you think you can run to anywhere but China, I think we'll all find that Canada and Mexico are not safe.
https://palmettostatearmory.com/psa-dagger-full-size-s-9mm-sw2-rmr-pistol-black.html
This. It's the point to get a rifle or get out (I did the latter). You can't put it off till you won't be able to.
pumpkin spice latte
Drink botanical tea in my cardigan while I shake my head at the news. Make vague comments about how crazy the times are at the craft beer pub
Thank you for your service.
Was supposed to be a joke
Yeah, was just yes anding
I'm getting more deeply involved in my community, such as it is, and the network of mutual aid groups here.
And yes it's full of white libs, and no there's not any revolutionary potential but fuck, man, what else is there to do? I gotta believe that a revolution is possible someday, even here, although I know I'll never live to see it. But until then, the working class has to keep surviving somehow.
I know I'll never live to see it.
Remember Lenin thought the same.
SRA has good mutual aid groups as well.
https://tankie.tube/w/sNaBFZt3rKRABM8oz4fUFq
I love that my phone wants me to tag the little Fidel.lol.
By no means am I saying you should find 10 people and kick shit off, but take these two pieces of media into consideration and ask yourself what sort of role you may have to play in the coming years. What skills do you have, what skills might be necessary? Acquire them, hone them. Prepare for the world as it is, not what you wanted it to be.
Look at how other resistance movements and folk heros operated under their fascist regimes. One of my personal favorites is Lucio Urtubia.
https://archive.org/details/lucio_2007
Other thoughts to consider:
- What sort information, resources, or property do you have access to?
- Could you leak something?
- Are you in a position to throw a wrench in the mix simply by making mistakes?
Shit like that. How can you be a thorn in the side of fascism?
Remember, it's not illegal to suck at your job, and if you don't say anything critical of the regime, or talk about this kind of thing, you can slow down the economy or even directly slow down the war machine by slowing down whatever it is your employer does. Misplace parts and tools if you maintain equipment. Misfile paperwork and create duplicate files with part of the information each, if you handle data. Make typos that introduce confusion ("miximum" is a personal favourite of mine). Abuse protocol to slow things down over minor issues. Don't do anything monumentally stupid or obviously on purpose, but make little mistakes and accidents anyone could make while tired, distracted, or just half assing a shitty job, a few times a day. Remember, what's more likely to the people who view low level workers as expensive idiots and not real human beings? That everyone who screws up their important job is a saboteur, or that underpaid idiots are underpaid idiots and governments and corporations get what they pay for and sometimes the guy who makes minimum wage and gets zero training is going to fuck up?
That site is excellent. Tons of the original SSM, especially under Office Work, still very much works, but this is sorely needed and I'm glad it exists. I especially like the suggestions regarding dead batteries. I love that so much of this is as simple and petty as leaving the caps off the markers. At worst you'll be thought of as an inconsiderate jerk if a co worker sees you do it "carelessly", and yet, every man hour wasted by certain enterprises hurts the regime you're fighting.
Thank you comrade! Really appreciate the thoughtful response and links.
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Where can I go online right now to hear people talking who are as fucking upset and gutted as I am about this? What are the streams? What’s the website? Seriously I need something. I can’t feel so fucking powerless frustrated and alone.
Woke.net (not a joke lol) Looks like they are done for the day but check back tomorrow
Hasan is usually pretty good on these things
Don't be a lib, join the 
. Best way to get involved is to come out to events and speak with the organizers. Or pslweb.org/join if you don't like near a branch.
Does PSL send physical mail? I live with my parents, and it would not go well if they started getting mail from a socialist organization.
Yep. Get involved locally. Start creating stronger communities.
I finally got my proof of citizenship and then immediately found out Alex Pretti was murdered.
I'm feeling too scared to go to any protests or join an org until my immigration issues are fully behind me but I've been donating to gofundmes
I think it's past the point of protest, imo. Use your energy elsewhere.
Staying safe when you are a target is a form of resistance. It's not your tome to stick your neck out. It's one of the necks we're fighting to keep safe. Risk is domeone else's job rn
I appreciate you saying that, comrade 
There's some guilt I have to get over because I feel annoyed at natural born citizen leftists that can but choose not to protest or donate while I also don't protest. Rationally I know it's different but I'm sure those people think it's different for them too
Nah you are right to be annoyed. As GB said, it's our responsibility as those of us born here, especially white settler descendants.
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I'm radicalizing the people in my social circles. Increasingly I have people who used to repeat standard lib lines agree with me and proudly tell me they're beginning to push back on others they hear licking boots, and saying things like "Nazi lives don't matter," and "self-defense is justified in times like these."
It's pretty amorphous and useless, relatively speaking, but it's sewing the seeds of public opinion for when these fucking goons do get got. If any of these baby leftists make it onto a jury, zero chance they prosecute 
, and zero chance they ever give police the benefit of the doubt going forward.
Amorphous and useless
Making atmospheric changes always seem that way until one day when the atmosphere has changed. You're terraforming the social environment
The first sign for me that things are changing was that Luigi incident. A CEO got shot and almost nobody gave a fuck, even many Republicans. If things keep moving in that direction, it will benefit leftists more and more. The less push back for leftist radical activity, the better.
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I’m attending a local progressives meeting on Monday. It’s at a church. There’s no DSA or PSL chapters near here and at this point I’m a person with kids to protect before I’m a communist. I need to be in touch with the people who are most likely to be organizing shit around here once ice comes to town. They’re already in the closest city and I’m trying to tap into that a bit too but the drive is like an hour and a half.
You can still be an at large DSA member. There are new chapter cropping up all of the time
Are there advantages to being an at large DSA member? I’d still have no one to organize with locally, correct?
I'm not looking to fedpost, but it is clear that none of us are safe. I find myself with some extra cash so I am about to purchase my first firearm, likely a cheap 9mm rifle just so I can work on my marksmanship as well as protect myself.
But also, I work at a small print shop and am dying to figure out how to utilize that to spread literature that can benefit my community
For rifle, go 5.56. 9mm is just for handgun.
5.56 us readily available and can hit lvl3 plates.
Get a PSA dagger 9mm. Get a 556 AR 15 from PSA. Upper and lower combo is about 350, just priced them out.
Whatever you get, have it take Glock and AR 15 mags.
I promise you I know what I'm talking about.
Yeah 9mm glock mags are going to be overwhelmingly available because that is what cops use and AR 15 is just the most available platform in the west in general but especially in the US for the same reason.
Also a great time as you said to go to local public ranges. Lots of libs are finally also arming up and might be out there and desperately need someone to guide them so they are not mistaught as we discussed in the last thread like this.
The answer to “what is to be done?” is always “build and strengthen the party of the working class”. The US has not started accomplishing that sentence yet. Maybe they’re on the B of build, if I’m being generous.
Agitate, educate, organise.
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How do I find a local branch of an org? I am hesitant to just google [city, state] psl or something like that, but I'm not sure how else to find them.
For PSL, just apply to the party: pslweb.org/join. Someone will reach out.
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