Just bring a burner phone with a camera. It needs to be filmed and streamed so they can’t take evidence.

Honestly, at this point in the fight, if they track you that’s the least of our concerns. We need to shoot this whole thing down so they don’t have the power DO anything with your tracking data.

Came in here to say, this is all fine and good, but we’ve been broadly asked a question in response to our demand:

“Or what?”

The left and progressives broadly need to start understanding power and where it comes from.

We need to use the amendment that the founders placed there to answer the question “Or what?” when it’s asked by our government when it goes bad.

If we met force with force, the cowards in masks and swastikas would RUN home and hide in their basements and whinge on the internet how persecuted they are. They’re not going to get in a gunfight with anyone, they’re emotionally-empowered internet chuds and pasty nazi-loving 4-channers. Every single one of them.

I dream of a day when I see nine-hundred thousand people of color, pink-haired LGBTQ+ allies and families of all walks of life marching on DC while open-carrying and demanding social change and accountability for the people selling off our rights to the lowest bidder.

A general strike is a strike action in which participants cease all economic activity, such as working, to strengthen the bargaining position of a trade union or achieve a common social or political goal. )"

“The largest general strike that ever stopped the economy of an advanced industrial country—and the first general wildcat strike in history—was May 1968 in France.[105] The prolonged strike involved eleven million workers for two weeks in a row,[105] and its impact was such that it almost caused the collapse of the de Gaulle government.”

This entire wiki article is a list of HUGE events in history that were affected by general strikes and what was involved in organizing and challenging them.

A one-day protest is fine, but it’s not a “general strike.”

General strikes aren’t things you can use your PTO for to get a three-day weekend. That’s like protesting a brand by buying their product and then destroying it.

I roll my eyes that these all are on Fridays 🙄

I mean, it’s fine. Go ahead, it will help, but it’s not really a general strike. It’s a day of protest. Come on America, you don’t really get how this works. You can’t use your PTO to challenge authority. It’s the same as protesting a company by buying their product to destroy like MAGA does.

Other than sitting on your ass complaining about people’s memes, what are YOU going to do about it?

This is the dumbest retort you can give. Please rethink why you’re here.

Fitting username.

Block the troll.

It’s not that simple, the “machines” aren’t like internet apps (until we allow congress to approve some form of Grok-powered voting app) they’re basically just digital printers that each state checks and validates are working on their own terms.

They WANT to control the machines and create some system to use that control to rig any election, but again, if they COULD do that yet, they would have already. There is no reason to think they have the power yet to override our will, we are a huge nation with a LOT of people, this isn’t quite yet a banana republic, so please discourage yourself from saying it’s hopeless and pointless to vote, especially around others.

People are starving for an excuse to roll over and stop trying. Seriously, I’ve never seen our nation so ready to just give up and cry. Everyone is lost and alone and desperate for the one thing they’re most scared of, which is reaching out to others and connecting and organizing. Be a force that resists this urge.

Pluto is a wonderful, amazing and beautiful world. I will never forget the awe I felt when I saw the first images when New Horizons blasted past it, the colors and textures and vivid landscapes and variety and hazy atmosphere layers, an utter treat, literally brought tears to my eyes that I got to see something I thought I would never see in my lifetime.

All that said, it’s fine it’s been reclassified, it takes nothing away from the world and the dwarf planets are ALL interesting and worth admiring.

They’re proving over and over again they don’t have control over much, if they did we wouldn’t have seen so many leftists, dems and open socialists take lead of cities and states last cycle. They tried too.

The problem for them that both they and us often forget about is that the USA isn’t one big country like Iran or Venezuela that can have their entire election system rigged by one small group. USA is 50 individual states. Remember, “State” basically means “nation.”

We have 50 individual nations with their own security, their own election systems, their own laws and rules. It takes a MASSIVE effort to go everywhere in this landscape, and even if they had the balls to risk something that big, they don’t have the manpower.

Not saying it’s impossible for them to fuck it all up, they will absolutely try. But I don’t think their success rate is nearly as high as they want you to think it is. They want you say “What good is it” and throw your hands up. They did more to suggest that they’re going to cheat than actual cheating because they want people to feel powerless. We’re not powerless, we still have 50 different nations with different agendas and people.

It really depends on how successful the midterms are at flushing out the establishment Dems in power in house and senate, they are sweating right now because the last wave of local elections REALLY ran against the mainstream grain. Dems have been pushing back on electing open socialists and reformists running under the DNC brand, and instead of successfully squashing these runs down, they failed across the board at stopping grassroots movements.

If Midterms flip the legislative branch significantly AND Trump can’t finish his term, we may see a wild swing back in the other direction.

The Democrats are just a container, they’re only as strong in obstruction to change as their oldest old-money liches like Schumer and other withered old husks who’ve had their seats and committee positions for like, 3,000 years.

People like this are usually very timid and weak in emotional fortitude for talking about difficult topics, and have probably had too many arguments with people even less intelligent and it created trauma. To say nothing of the actual deliberate campaigns by many internal and external forces to poison the wells of dialogue so that everyone feels lost and afraid of politics.

I think along with the autistic spectrum comes an internal dialogue and information organization system that makes people care about more abstract concepts and ideas, which are inherently political if they involve more than one person, real or imaginary.

I don’t mind politics wonks if they have moderation and aren’t doomers.

Doomers or do-nothing liberals are the worst kind, I will take an outspoken conservative over liberals and doomers any day. At least an outspoken conservative chud I can talk to and understand and eventually break. Because I am smarter than most of them. So are you. We all are. We’re just afraid of confrontation but you can shape conversations so that these people let their guard down and actually become receptive to new perspectives if you can change their feelings.

Here’s the caveat.

You CAN talk to your peers and people you work with who don’t outrank you or can get you fired. In fact, this is important. You just have to know how to toe the line and not come off as some kind of radical who will push people away.

Most people I work with are DYING to express something or rant or rave about how unfair or frightening this current immigration thing is, but are afraid to broach the topic. If you just know how to ask questions and listen people will open up to you.

You don’t DECLARE your politics on a Zoom call with your mid-level manager, you ASK people how they’re doing in one-on-one calls or while having lunch together, and while people are feeling friendly or vulnerable and you give them support whatever they say, while explaining your feelings even if they run counter to theirs. You can turn people this way, but more often than not you will find allies.

It IS risky, I wouldn’t promote it, I’m just saying it’s not quite as hot-firepoker of an issue as many people think. (Your results may vary depending on your industry, state you work in, and skin color.)

The only place to discuss politics is the same place we’re supposed to talk about gun violence.

A concrete, soundproof bunker that you need to climb a 60-foot ladder down to seal yourself inside, ensure nobody is around, and whisper your grievances into a small vinyl bag, then tie the bag up with a zip-tie and place it inside a mason jar and return it to the shelf inside the bunker.

This is how you protest as an American if you want to follow established societal norms and etiquette. Anything else and it’s between 4 and 10 gunshots to the chest, face and back.

Back in GA a man just stood behind my car

According to ICE, you’re justified in using lethal force in this situation.

105% of the time when someone in a public space says “Let’s not talk politics” or “Let’s not make this political” they are horrible MAGA-aligned morons or incel chuds who have outrageously stupid or hateful ideals.

That’s really curious isn’t it. I don’t think I’ve ever seen the reverse, you absolutely never see someone start spouting anti-equality BS in a game subreddit and all the leftists go “whoa whoa, this isn’t the place for that, can’t we all just enjoy our games without making it political.”

The chances of him facing actual charges after Trump dies is actually very high.

When the administration shatters and everyone is scrambling to shift blame knowing their free-pass to immunity has disappeared, they will desperately need some high-level cabinet member to point at, and this may come as a shock to everyone… but Stephen Miller is not very likeable.

Everyone hates this guy, he is as cringe and annoying in real life as he is on camera, everyone says it. The only reason he’s there is because he learned who he can wormtongue to climb in power, and found the ultimate cursed husk to puppeteer in Trump. They will delight in throwing his gangly limbs under the bus.

Upside down in a suspended coffin.

vast majority of people who believe in RFK also believe being an addict is reprehensible.

While true, they’re also the segment of the population most impacted by the opioid epidemic.

There is no logistical consistency in the conservative mind, we have to stop trying to make square pegs fit into something that doesn’t even have holes. These folks go with how they feel, and they adore having a health and human services leader who gives them validation for believing in magic water, essential oil and avoidance of scarrrrryyyy needles and vaccines. That’s ALL they care about, nothing in his background would change that. NOTHING.