• _cryptagion [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 days ago

    So what exactly are you doing to help, then? Holding signs up at your weekly protests that are authorized by the police? It’s easy to criticize people when you aren’t doing shit yourself.

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      3 days ago

      So what exactly are you doing to help, then?

      Right now, anything is something. This is an unprecedented situation in 250 years of America. Things are slowly coming together, but it is new territory. Unlike the developed world, America binds work/health/insurance/vacation/home/car/life very tightly together. Even a week of missed work can result in homelessness, sickness, death. This is by design so the ruling class can limit movement. This all needs to be fixed first thing once we’re done destroying evil, but in the now, we have to work how we can, when we can, where we can.

      I wouldn’t be surprised if the corpo media focus on minor aircraft crashes (not all minor, but non-fatal collisions at airports, and personal craft going down are commonplace anytime) is to make people scared to fly to DC.

      Donate anything you can afford to local charities, every little bit helps. Funding is being drained all over the place and the ripple effects are only beginning. Write letters to your leadership so they know their constituents are pissed and they better do what they can.

      Learn things in your skill-set that may be helpful in the coming chaos, alternate means of communication, computers, networking, radios, transportation, maps, routes, memorizing information.

      Store food so you can go without grocery stores for a few months if you have to.

      Be proactive on goings on, support protesting Tesla and corpo protests. Don’t buy things. Check out how people just not going to Target has been going. Silly protests like hacking road crossing buttons in Silicon Valley, law suits, letters, anything to slow down the morons that think they’re in charge. It’s boots on the ground, it’s psyops, its money, its visual, its presence, it is everything to cause noise and confusion right back at them.

      Delay buying that new iPhone. Cancel Amazon Prime. Read books. Books on history. Stay informed. If you see someone harassed on the street, at the bare minimum, video broadcast it, intervene if you’re brave.

      Once the billionaire class wakes up and realizes that we, not an orange blumpkin, nor a muskrat actually make them money, they’ll change their tune or miss out on all that sweet sweet revenue. (Who knows, maybe even grow a conscience, but let us not be delusional.) With or without them, however, we can’t give up on hope.

      Even those with the means to leave are doing their part by taking talent away from the US which will cripple the Machine of Evil long-term. They can help from the outside by helping those on the inside stay informed to the real news.

      No one thing is going to change this, it has to be all things at the same time.

      So stop being a fatalist, what shit are you doing? If you are a member of planet Earth, you should be doing something.

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      3 days ago

      They’re telling their allies to leave the country because they don’t like the words they say. They might as well just join the conservatives.

    • Guns0rWeD13@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      Holding signs up at your weekly protests

      lol. not hardly. i have real solutions. read my username, bud.

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          3 days ago

          God you defeatists are insufferable. Peaceful protests are the START of these movements. We’re starting the ball rolling.

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            3 days ago

            Nothing was ever accomplished with peaceful protest, especially not protest that’s sanctioned and scheduled by the authorities.

            But I wouldn’t expect a liberal to acknowledge that. Leftists get in the streets, liberals stay in the tweets. You question Trumps methods, but not his power, because once he’s gone, whatever corporate-owned millionaire you appoint will need that power when it comes time to put the boot on the necks of anti-genocide or civil rights protesters.

            You’re just diet fascism.

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              It’s been said in some studies that most of the successful resistances to authoritarian regimes rely on peaceful, not violent resistance. That has surprised me too, but it does help to snowball a much larger movement. It makes people less resistant to participating, and also much harder for the news to demonize. Many people that I’ve spoken to say they hate what’s happening, but are afraid to speak out - and they often change their mind when they see others taking stands too.

              We understand events like April 5 do not cause immediate change, but it’s highly likely they’ve had slower effects. Harvard choosing to resist the administration, or the Supreme Court ruling in favor of Garcia, might not have happened if they hadn’t seen how much of the nation opposes that administration.

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                2 days ago

                It’s obvious that those studies did not take place in the United States, because it’s historical fact that none of the rights Americans have were ever achieved through peaceful protest.

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              3 days ago

              Im actually a libertarian who supports escalating the movement. I also believe politicians need to be reminded to fear the people. But strawman me away. I think we may have more in common than you think.