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No exceptions
I liked the part where the victem is named but none of the ICE agents are identified. “Officer N.J.” is all they say.
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Slow death.
Most people don’t know that there are short drop and long drop hangings. Long drops snap the neck instantly, and are considered humane. Short drops leave the victim, dangling, and slowly spinning and strangling.
At the end of WWII, after the Allies detained Nazi officers, but before Nuremberg, many were given quick military trials and some were hanged. The preferred method was short drop hangings.
Dress up as maga while you slash their tires, throw paint over their cars… letsgooooo bully trump and nazi’s out
Don’t dress as MAGA, they won’t believe it anyway. They already blame Jan 6 on ANTIFA. We need to take full, proud credit for our efforts. We need the world to know who is fighting back.
At their core, Conservatives are cowards, afraid of EVERYTHING - Liberals, gays, minorites, foreigners, other religions, women, women’s genitalia, intelligenc, education, , morality, etc. That’s why they will vote for anyone who will promise to protect them from their perceived enemies, no matter how corrupt they are.
So the best way to manipulate them is to tap into their fear. Right now they’ve been taught to hate us by the Conservative Propaganda Machine. We need to make them FEAR us to their core. That way, when we recover our country, we can terrorize them into slithering back under their slimy rocks, where scum like them belongs.
And if they ever dare to poke their heads out from under that rock, we aren’t understanding, or empathetic, or want to show the good faith, or hear them out, or give them a second chance, etc. They literally embody the world’s evil, and when they try to rise again, we will have to crush them mercilessly.
At this point, ICE is just a group of people who harass Latinos based on racist criteria. It doesn’t even have to do with immigration.
As a white person, I think of the German people who did nothing when Jewish people were gradually stripped of rights, before the eventual death camps, and I’m not actually sure of what to do. I also am not really convinced that there are no Latinos being sent to death camps right now. If there were, would I know somehow?
My political views are somewhat moderate. I just don’t like racism.
Is there anything I can do that will have any meaningful impact on protecting Latinos from this racism? I do not consider protests to be meaningful and I am not asking for any suggestions that are illegal, especially since the government probably trolls these posts. I feel like I’m being a bad person by doing nothing.
Supposedly that’s already happening. Many of the people that were sent to alligator Alcatraz were never seen again. They weren’t traceable. And yet neighboring countries are reportedly finding bodies washing up on their shores. The running theory is that the US has been flying them out into the ocean, dropping them in there to drown to disappear them. It’s horribly evil, and yet it’s plausible.
We’re almost to the end of the end of the poem. I fully expect to hear “and then they came for me“ any day now
I’m German and when I was in elementary school in the 90s we learned about the Nazi regime. An old woman visited our class to talk about what is was like for her as a child under Hitler. I remember that she said some people just disappeared and noone really knew why. There were rumours about prisons or labor camps but noone knew for sure what happened to the people who disappeared. She only learned about the concentration camps after the war was over.
I bet in a decade or so we will learn about all the horrors that are really going on right now.
Nope. The US doesn’t learn. It markets.
Have you got sources on the bodies thing? I’m going to look for myself now but just curious where this is reported because I haven’t seen anything
FoundNYT article but it’s more about people America is killing in boat strikes
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/world/americas/trinidad-bodies-us-strike-venezuela.html
Admittedly I hadn’t looked too deeply into it. My sister was talking to me about it and she’s generally more level-headed than I am. Under normal circumstances I’d dismiss it as rumor but looking around my country lately, it’s actually quite possible.
That’s why I did it was plausible. I’m not certain, but I fear it’s likely true.
You could warn your area if you see ICE around on this website.
Finding and getting involved in a local mutual aid group would be quite meaningful, as it would allow you to meet people who share your same concerns IRL, and be able to plan and organize for how to react in your area. It’s very make a meaningful difference alone, finding a solid group is very important.
Attempting to unionize your workplace if it isn’t already would be very helpful to further prepare for a General Strike (as they usually have strike funds to make a general strike financially bearable), which is pretty much our last non-violent option to prevent all of this from progressing. You can see how a general strike helped cripple Chile’s government while civil unrest was occurring in this documentary.
I’d recommend contacting the IWW, who will gladly train you to become an organizer with proven techniques to unionize your workplace.
Lastly, I’d also recommend checking out the book Full Spectrum Resistance for a more complete guide on how to prepare and respond.
https://www.iceinmyarea.org/ wouldn’t let me on the website because I’m using Tor Browser in safer mode and WebGL is blocked (Vercel Security Checkpoint Failed to verify your browser Code 11) and I’m not willing to go on a website like that without using Tor Browser. I really don’t trust anything that doesn’t trust Tor Browser.
They’ve been chipping away at Tor browser for a while now. It’s well known that it can be fingerprinted now. I think it was like last year or something where they made a change they lied about and got caught. Eventually enough people had it that someone finally tested the damn thing and demonstrated the flaw. The tor browser people said too bad we’re not changing it. It was something that was intentionally introduced to enable fingerprinting on tor. The network itself seems very good but tor browser itself, not so much
I’m not saying to stop using tor, but you really should diversify your shit. Look into i2p, set up a reticulum node, get multiple options ready. The great danger of tor is that damn near everybody involved in darknet stuff is using it, which means it’s an incredibly appealing target for the feds who have demonstrated they are not to be trusted
I just assume any and all communications are being monitored by the NSA, or somebody even more secretive. VPNs, browsers, etc. may fool the standard id confirmations and such, but they aren’t evading the top spooks.
If they want you, they’ll get you, no matter what precautions you take.
Agreed but if they are going to run around playing nazi games, I’m gonna make them work for it.
Of course, we are already at the point where they lie and just make shit up anyway so it’s mostly an intellectual exercise at this point.
It wouldn’t let me there either. Not sure it’s my VPN or my browser, but I figured most people aren’t going to have as intense of a privacy set-up as we do. I also don’t know of an alternative to that site now that the ICE Block app was removed from stores.
For all I know, the website could be a honeypot, although I have no reason to suspect that. But I don’t know who the developer is, I don’t know what Vercel is, I don’t know why Anubis isn’t sufficient.
Get trained by a local rapid response team. You can’t directly interfere, but by enabling people to exercise their legal rights, you can prevent a significant fraction of snatch and grabs and significantly slow ICE & CBP.
Do local response teams have use for people with extremely limited Spanish? I’ll try to find out. It’s a good idea.
Yes. You can:
- identify ICE/CBP
- alert the rest of the team
- blow a whistle to alert those nearby
- ask to see warrants
- film what is going on for accountability
I think of the German people who did nothing
Yup… It’s painful. I’m with you. There was a great answer below.
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Shot from behind by federal agents, seems the key missing element of that title.
If you treat people as a group, they tend to lock together as a group. The police are already getting pissed off with ICE, in many places. That crack needs to be pryed open. Indifferent, pissed off police/FBI etc is a lot better than them standing in lockstep with ICE.
Yah we can do more good leveraging the fact that most of these ICE agents are illegitimate and just poorly trained ticks riding on Trump’s political narratives and not real federal agents.
We can make the cops hate them and support the narrative that these ICE goons are trying to usurp local authority.
Then when the tide turns and ICE is pushed back into the sea or wherever the fuck they came from, we can go back to hating on the cops. We gotta take the stairs one step at a time.
It’s worth noting, that the police issue in America is very solvable. Most of the Western world’s police use a “police by consent” default. America’s “police by overwhelming force” is the outlier. It leads to a lot of your issues over there. While they are far from perfect, the UK police are far better than America police.
It’s worth looking for the opportunity to reform the police in the process, not just hate on them (ineffectively).
+1 to pushing ICE into the sea, and reclaiming our own.
they’re hardly federal agents
while threatening them with a car. …
Anyone can shoot someone in a car at any time, because they’re armed with a deadly weapon, got it.
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Jimenez pulled up to three immigration officers, two from Border Patrol and another form ICE and “engaged in a verbal altercation,” it states.
It doesn’t even get any better if you just accept their version of what happened. Six agents vs one guy in a “verbal altercation”, and they think it’s ok to just start blasting?
There are two very obvious peices that show the government side is lieing… 1 - a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security, said … 2 - Then the agent “holstered” his fire arm
The main requirement to be a spokesperson for anything in this administration is to lie. And ICE has orders to escalate, not descalate.
This comment section is full of fedposting.
Fr, people need to stop treating the internet as equivalent to IRL discussions. Like literally every comment is “shoot your local cop”, I mean like, I’m not saying that I disagree with the sentiment, but like… seriously lol? How is suicide by cop gonna change anything?
Just as with computers, your brain also needs a “firewall”.
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Real talk. People like to pretend they are the boogie man the right is trying to create. But outside of the superhero frog, most of us are just regular people.
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23 minute account lmao
Hi FBI
What is fedposting?
People trying to get you to do or say something which could earn you a visit from the police. Open calls for violence or to break the law in some specific manner. E.g. “shoot your local ICE agent”.
I’m not going to say that violence is never justified, but anyone loudly advocating it in leftist spaces online should be viewed with a very suspect eye. The online is very real and your posts here very much can be connected to your identity.
Interesting! And good to know. Thanks for the info.
This comment sectionEvery comment section on Lemmy is full of fed posting.FTFY
What a shithole.
Yep. But the people don’t learn. So I don’t give a shit unless there is civil unrest against that government.
That’s what they want. If ICE gets violently repelled in any substantial way tiny d will declare martial law and suspend voting. Otherwise midterms will decimate their control of Congress.
The People are doing an amazing job at resisting in ways that are both highly effective and don’t give him an excuse to tear down the constitution, and they should be supported not condemned given the hand they were dealt.
That’s putting a lot of faith in a system that has simply proven to be gutted, undermined, and rendered ineffective. The checks and balances are pretty much gone. Trump should have been in jail before the election. We’re way beyond midterms having meaningful impacts. Maybe I’m overly pessimistic and I’d love to be proven wrong, but I’m not seeing it.
They’re going to do that anyways…
100%. He’ll just make something up. Already is.
Weakens his narrative and gives states more of a casus bellum to ignore or even toss out feds should the time come. Woo end of empire politics ain’t it FUN. Why couldn’t we have gone out like the Hittites at least then I could stab strange people coming from the sea.
Should the time come.
I’m not angry at you but at this sentiment. When is the fucking time if not now?
Oh I ain’t denying that it sucks ass, but there is a somewhat reasonable argument that can be made that just keeping what you can afloat and waiting for the feds to implode is the optimal strategy right now. It’s kinda like how the regional nationalist movements just kinda waited for the Soviets to implode towards the end. Not fun by any means and I personally disagree, I think the states should be black bagging the fuckers and shutting off utilities to their facilities. But open revolt is still at least a couple months away, kinda depends how long this shutdown goes on for and how economic effects manifest.
The federal gov imploding (especially if Federal Reserve is under control) can be many decades away, even several internal coups away.
Imo an open revolt in USA happens only when it becomes beyond clear the voting rights are taken over. And even then far from unanimous.
Atm neither “side” is there yet - the gov doesn’t have the infrastructure/environment to make a possible revolt manageable (hungry & overworked populous is a factor too), and the people don’t have the resolve to accept where, how fast, how premeditated, and how successfully the gov is moving.
(Oh, and a bunch of rich states seceding imho leads to immediate war. I don’t really see a peacefully way of that happening regardless of the public view. The federal border & poor state subsidies would destabilise the whole gov.)
At which point our number and power will be at its strongest. Some people voted for his ass and are still on the fence.
Otherwise midterms will decimate their control of Congress.
you are overestimating the reasoning skills and common sense of the average american voter. we’ll be lucky to flip even one chamber by a razor-thin margin.
I guess reducing by ten percent is a start.
It would be naive to expect any more given how gerrymandered and entrenched red states are. 10% would flip both the House and Senate and effectively render the last 2 years of this presidency moot.
Senate aint getting flipped. Of the seats up for election, only Maine’s could realistically be flipped, all the other seats are either already solid blue or solid red. I doubt 3 red states would simultaneously go blue.
… Effective?
How many ICE agents are in jail for their innumerable, constant violations of laws?
How many of them have quit, or been otherwise disabled as members of a violent paramilitary force?
How much has ICE’s capacity to inflict further lawless terror been actually, practically diminished?
The answer is None, to near none, basically not at all.
What you describe as effective resistance is just effective virtue signalling, not making any material difference against a hostile invading force, who is only growing in number and continuously gaining access to more funding and resources.
The elections are actively being rigged right now, MAGA bought the company that runs most of the voting machines.
They’ll either win the midterms via fuckery, or just cancel them, no matter how many people voice their concerns and displeasure.
Also, they’ll just do a false flag or massively trump up an actual event, to justify violence, if they are not met with actual violent resistance.
They have in fact already been doing this, in many, many different instances, but the news cycle moves so fast that apparently few are cognizant of this.
They can do that anyway, right?
After that the people can then either do nothing, protest peacefully (as much as they can/are allowed), or riot.It’s the same result anyway, the pipeline is being built step by step (ICE employment numbers, testing the military chain of command, media control, voting/legal stuff, …).
An American trying to explain how to properly dismantle a government. Another great example of “Oh we should play by the rules because then everything is going to be okay”. No. It wont. Get violent or they will kill you, one by one.
A non American bitching that other people aren’t throwing their lives away while you sit behind a keyboard under no danger whatsoever
You have no idea where I am coming from. And you do have no clue how we, as a society, show the government who is in charge at the end of the day. The only ones sitting behind keyboards are Muricans and definitely not Europeans or Asians, most likely because 40.3% of all people are too fat to even protest properly.
Enjoy the fascist regime.
I’m flabbergasted at this comment in between my bites of lard.
Remember children, fascism is when thicc.
Americans are actually great at dismantling legitimate and illegitimate governments, and they can do it in a vast variety of ways. Most common they start supporting local gangs or terrorist groups to take control. Or directly bomb the country. Or send assassins. Or sanction the country. Or …
That’s the work of the CIA and yes, they are doing an excellent job. Unfortunately, the CIA is focused on everything but the USA, or else the government would be gone in no time 😄
We have learned what happens when a fascist leader implements martial law and gives themselves extensive powers to fully clinch a full dictatorship.
Fuck off
Oh if I would live there, that’d be exactly what I’d do, genius. 🤣
Nah, I don’t think you would. Don’t you think others think like you do? Where’s the unrest? Talking is easy.
It’s really hard to comprehend from an outside perspective that returning to the state of affairs with all the people being killed annually by cops or imprisoned for trivial/made-up stuff is the much preferred choice to the current state.
Just awful.And it’s an still there, but now there is ICE too, foreign concentration camps multiplied/got outsourced, and military is being tested.
In a country that wanted change, but got the opposite - just a lot more of the same(ish) problems. And they did that by voting.
I’m not sure any legal mechanism (and there are a bunch afaik) can successfully inhibit the current administration to either just carry on or print ballots with only their names on it. Or just declare a winner without even counting the votes.
A hungry nation fighting for food is in a bad position for a general strike.
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Obviously that’s the main problem I am talking about. If you get killed and just watch or at max hold up a sign, then I don’t feel sorry for you, as it was obviously not bad enough for you to properly react to such domestic terror
This is really some russia level shit.
Even in Russia, people are not being shot on the streets: detained, beaten up, etc - yes (I’m not saying this is good of course), but not shot. The US quickly took the lead in some of the dystopian stuff.
russia, putin banned gun ownership, he doesnt want a violent uprising of his own. its only matter of time before trump does it. also most of trumps administration are hiding like rats on military bases.
It’s not Putin who banned something, guns were historically harder to own in Russia, and USSR before.
And gun ownership doesn’t really help in the US right now. People sit with their guns being quiet.Most civilized countries ban or severely limit gun ownership.
As does Russia.
The US has always been the outlier in that regard.right, here in Canada, you don’t have the right to bear arms, but you can own a firearm for certain purposes. one of them is not killing others or for self-defense. You also need to take a course and have a psych eval. I know for one, i would fail because i have BPD.
This is some Republic卐n-level shit.
How is that symbol even allowed lmaoo 💀 💀 🐸
it has more than one meaning
Canada is fucked. Surrounded by Russia and the United States of Russia.
RUSR.
When they annex Canada - CURSR (SUCRR?).
After Mexico - CRRUMS.
Russia doesn’t even gun down its citizens in the streets, this is some 3rd world shit.
ICE executes a US citizen with a shot in the back of the head in front of children.
Here, I fixed the headline for you.
Per the article:
unnecessarily shot in the back of his right shoulder where a bullet remains lodged
He is still alive
ICE attempts to murder a US citizen with a shot in the back of the head in front of children.
Nailed it?
Okay this is good.
Let’s iterate this until it’s perfect. I think attempted unnecessarily waters it down.
How about
ICE shoots a US citizen in the back of the head in front of children.
That’s ok then.
Does the truth only matter to you if it’s aligned in all respects with the narrative?
Be better.
Do you think it’s ok he got shot? Thats the problem, that ICE thought shooting someone, anyone, was ok. It’s not.
Let’s recap. The comment you replied to said that it would be false to say “ICE executes a US citizen by shooting him in the back of the head” because ICE didn’t kill him, and he wasn’t shot in the back of the head.
You replied (sarcastically) with “That’s OK then,” implying that you thought it was necessary to tell someone who stated correctly that ICE didn’t kill a man that what ICE did wasn’t OK. To be clear, that person didn’t say, “this is fine because the guy is still alive”, they were just correcting someone who falsely said ICE killed someone.
So why do you think literally anyone here thinks it is OK that someone got shot? Nobody has said that it’s OK. Just to spell it out:
you have read someone making a correct point that ICE didn’t kill someone as “ICE shot someone, but it’s OK.”
To me, that says one thing: you think that it is not important to speak the truth about ICE if that truth is that they didn’t behave in the worst possible way. Any truth that doesn’t align with the narrative of “ICE bad” is not important truth to you, right? The only statements that should be written are those which criticise ICE.
Does that sound about right? If so, then I’ll just say again: you need to be better than that. If not, then what possible reason do you have for asking “do you think it’s OK he got shot” when no-one said that it is OK?
I’m hugely disappointed that you feel the need to make the distinction, it’s incredibly USAian.
My point, all along, is that ICE shouldn’t be behaving how they are, at all, it’s fucked.
My point, all along, is that ICE shouldn’t be behaving how they are, at all, it’s fucked.
And you felt the need to make that point, repeatedly, when no-one disagreed with it. And you won’t even begin to talk about why.
Yes, I think we absolutely need to make a decision between true things and false things. I don’t give a shit what country you associate that habit with because it’s so clearly important and positive. You’ll have to actually respond to me if you want to convince me that it is anything other than vital in today’s “post-truth” landscape.
But that was not the point. The point was did someone get executed or shot in the back? No-one is saying either story is ok but only one is true.
I’m disappointed that you feel the need to make the distinction.
The other one is a lie. I am disappointed in you at this point.
Literally no one said anything to that effect. Learn to read.
He’s alive
Totally, this headline is not nearly sensationalist and misleading enough for my taste.
I’m going to go back to r/politics if this doesn’t change!
they successfully executed the guy in franklin park illinois for the crime of driving away.
edit: The art is to be resolute without weapons, strategic, smart, large-scale and unpredictable. A national strike would work better yeah but is tricky ig lots of americans need their salary too but you can set up a strike fund for those people perhaps? idk and supporting organizations that protect independent branches of power, independent judges, iguess, protectdemocracy.org for example ig
stop telling people to start shooting. You think its as simple as one person killing a ICE agent and they pack it up and go home. it will take more than that to push back the issues going on
At least you saved someone then…
hmm…fair point.
but NO no u are right be forceful without weapons best … to help more people in the end than just the one idk
As if the detainee is going to get away clean forever after their arresting officer gets blasted. PuddingHelmet is a wildly accurate username.
Most gun owners don’t carry them around 24/7 and probably .0001% of gun owners are actively looking for shoot outs with federal agents at any given time 🤣. They are not arresting gun owners currently do that’s why the lack of resistance id guess.
A cop without a warrant is just an armed trespasser.
Well for one reason they haven’t come to my home yet. They seem to be going after mostly defenseless people with overwhelming force. I’m assuming they’re fucking cowards and they’re not putting themselves in danger intentionally.
I dont get it lmao you get arrested without arms anyway so… why you even have guns in america for anyway if not for against nazis?
I’m an outsider but I think the reality is very clearly not that simple.
Most people are still not being arrested, and most of those arrested or involved with the police or federal agents are not being assaulted with deadly weapons. It’s not at the point where it is some kind of obvious choice to make it a fight.
In fact, in reality, that is rarely the case I would say, because the fascists are incentivised to not make it so clear cut and obvious, because then people fight back. That’s why the worst crimes of fascist regimes are usually conducted in secrecy and with denial. Even when e.g. France was conquered by the Nazis, most people were not part of The Resistance.
Public accountability and punishment for the culprit is much more effective than just start shooting them, of course. But for decades, some Americans kept claiming they needed guns to defend themselves against a tyrannical government, they’ve been waving “don’t tread on me” flags, and here’s the government treading on people, and there’s not a peep from the gun lobby.
Identifying agents and their families is the silver bullet, which is why it’s seen as such an offense to the government. Currently, agents are able to threaten people and their families without similar threat, and they’re confident in their numbers in a fight. If they faced the same fears they impose, they would chill out very quickly.
I mean I get it and I see your point - if you’re going to get arrested/shot/killed anyways might as well go down guns blazing and hopefully taking a nazi with you.
The reality is americans don’t want to do that. none are actually willing to die for their country.
Its what MAGA wants. If ICE starts getting shot then Trump will send in the guard.
Its a waiting game. Maybe we can have another election, maybe it could be fair, maybe the dems will take two branches and start impeaching and/or prosecuting. Not likely … the dems probably sold out.
I’m so fucking tired of being fearful of what MAGA wants.
They already have what they want!
Why wont MAGA learn to assimilate in to the broader culture? They come to us demanding we do things their way instead of learning our way. They want our taxes, attention, and opportunities but what do they give back? They dont create our art, movies, music, shows, books, poems, or science. They dont generate positive revenue in their states. They dont know our constitution or our laws. They wont respect our flag or our troops active or retired. They refuse to pay taxes. They spread disease on purpose. They have the lowest education rates. They have the highest violent crime rates including gun deaths and domestic abuse. They have higher divorce rates and the poverty rate is unreal.
They sort of tried to blend in, camouflage, they rolled along with it, and in fits and starts they threw tantrums about not being allowed to say the (bigoted) things on their mind without being made to feel wrong or looked down on for it.
Then along came Trump and so many of these muted bullies, racists, misogynists, and homophones saw that someone could sa6 those things publicly and not only not be shouted down, but also gain support.
They rallied behind the big bully, because even though he hits them too and takes their lunch money, he makes them feel accepted for their bigotry instead of chastened. Not to mention, they now have a big public banner for their different tribalistic hatreds, a large group that can differ in individual views but generally doesn’t cast aspersions over belittling and dehumanizing people. The club doesn’t all have to agree on anything except that voicing your hateful feelings is acceptable or even admirable.
All of this is stuff that’s been stirring for so long, and of course Trump is just the person who managed to light the fire without getting buried for it. Yet here he is, wielding the power to enrich himself and his cohort, protect himself from punishment for his many past and present crimes, and have people hang off his every word on the planet’s biggest stage. What more could a greedy, narcissistic rapist want?
It’s a religion being MAGA.
The funny thing about having what you want … you decide you want more.
Noone ever stops because they have what they want.
It just sucks being torn between
• If I do nothing, MAYBE others will resolve all this somehow, or maybe not and it just keeps gets worse for the foreseeable future.
• If I do something, maybe some good comes of it in the short- or long-term. Probably I will suffer excessive consequences, and most likely the propaganda machine uses it to fan the flames and accellerate the power grabs even more.
Either way could bear positive results. Either way could lead to things getting worse.
But certainly important elemens are not giving up, offering support where and to whom you can, standing up when it counts, and fighting (nonviolently) when you can.
I understand that opinions differ on if and when violent action should be used, and I’m not wise enough to offer any endorsement on that topic. I’m also not really here for any response to the effect of “obviously violence is the only moral option when lives and communities are threatened” or any other conversation about where to draw that line in the sand.
So buy a rifle, find a place to practice with it, and practice every day you can afford to. The best thing right now is to start preparing. Is your pantry stocked for at least a month? Is your water supply dependent on electricity? Right now is time to be building community networks, designating roles and leadership, defining goals and abilities, and practicing marksmanship. If you think you’re going to be able to carry on a guerilla insurgency and also lay down suppressive fire, you’ll be hearing your rifle click by the end of the week. Learn to make quick, accurate shots, and leaving the area immediately. Practice pop up shots, limit scope time, learn to scope with both eyes open. I can’t help but assume so many of the pudding heads screaming for Americans to start killing officers have very little or zero firearms experience and absolutely no tactical or combat experience outside of COD
Gonna be honest, I don’t have what it takes to be on the front lines of any conflict. My body is not made for sustained action. This is medically probably not remediable. The biggest thing I’d be able to do in a firefight where anyone needs me to move around extensively and still be useful is take a bullet meant for someone more capable.
Taking a bullet as a shield is not your best use. Most of the real work will be behind the line. Organizing food, munitions delivery, just being an available part of the structure will be more useful than any triggerman. And as an able-bodied, hot blooded young-ish man, it is my fucking honor to take your place on the front line if you are willing to do the actual hard work of supporting the fighters. My body for yours brother, and anybody else’s willing to commit to the cause. I am really afraid this shit is going to get bloody before it gets better. I hope that Lemmy’s defederated nature allows us to effectively use it as a method of insurrectionist communication. We’re going to need it.
This sums up exactly how most of us feel.
There is a vocal minority that wants to run out into the streets and start throwing bricks through windows, but that is not what is needed right now.
Sadly, we need to let MAGA simmer because they are cooking themselves. The US cannot exist like this, people HATE this country right now and the billionaires can’t afford that as they could get demoted to millionaires.
The small things that sustain me are things like watching the poll numbers fall, seeing specific known Republican politicians who have generally gone along with all this speak out at all, and being reminded that there are a lot of capable people actively trying to keep MAGA from outright winning. We definitely need more of the federally seated politicians and powerful/rich/influential folks taking meaningful stands and/or actions.
No, they dont have what they want yet. They want liberals to start fighting back violently so they can sick ICE on them. Persecution by voter registration.
Yeah true better to be forceful without weapons, strategic, organized, smart, large-scale and unpredictable.
We need new leadership from the Dems for me to believe they’re going to deliver accountability after how they handled Jan 6th. But yeah, we can’t play into MAGA’s hands, I’d rather see an election than none.
I don’t understand how this happened? Surely voting for the lesser of two evils will eventually somehow stop evil right?
Which lesser evil would you be referring to?
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Should people not participate in elections? What else do you suggest?
I participate in all elections and encourage others to as well. I compromise by voting for democratic socialists in the worst case scenario, but otherwise will vote for whatever socialist candidates are on the ballot.
