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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

By making every single step they try to take excruciatingly painful by any means necessary.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

That's the neat part...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

We need to make detentions and deportations difficult. For a group and keep your eyes peeled. Report any activity that you see by CBP in your area. Be a nuisance. Film them. Shout at them. Drive slow in front of their vehicles. If you can, do more that I won't say online.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I found this book to be very compelling and topical: https://www.ericachenoweth.com/research/civil-resistance-what-everyone-needs-to-know

Civil resistance is a method of conflict through which unarmed civilians use a variety of coordinated methods (strikes, protests, demonstrations, boycotts, and many other tactics) to prosecute a conflict without directly harming or threatening to harm an opponent. Sometimes called nonviolent resistance, unarmed struggle, or nonviolent action, this form of political action is now a mainstay across the globe. It was a central form of resistance in postwar anti-colonial movements, the 1989 revolutions, and the Arab Awakenings, and people are practicing civil resistance at higher rates than ever before around the world, including in the United States. If we want to understand the manifold protest movements emerging around the globe, we need a thorough understanding of civil resistance and its many dynamics and manifestations.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 days ago
[–] [email protected] 73 points 3 days ago (7 children)

Run for political office. The Democrats have no intention of fixing anything, let alone making things better.

And if you believe you're not qualified or don't know how to do the job, just remember that both parties are filled with incompetent fools, fakes, conspiracy crackpots, and morons. It would take considerable effort to do worse than some of the people in congress.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Run for office, or find someone worthy and get behind their run. Don't worry about Republicans for now,vee have to defeat the Democratic establishment before we will have the ability to fight Republicans.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

I don't want to put a target on my or my families backs 😓

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

Politics stopped working at the federal level, and only some states are full democracies.

So running for local office either won’t help at all, because the fight is not there. Or it’s a dangerous futile thing to do - if one were to be outspoken and all public against injustice.

The only hope for many is to make new things while breaking as little of the old as possible

[–] [email protected] 46 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Well, both parties are also filled with money and other resources needed to ensure that only two parties can succeed.

We need alternative voices in office, but I don't think that's happening without some form of revolution. The best one can hope for in lieu of that is co-opting a party's direction over a span of decades, like the fascists did to the GOP.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Find charities, news outlets, podcasts, rights groups or other entities that match your message and support them.

Donate money, time, and whatever else you can to help.

I think everyone understands that being loud might draw the wrong attention, so do what you can to support the ones that you want as much as you are able.

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[–] [email protected] 283 points 3 days ago (9 children)
[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 days ago (22 children)

The problem with violence is that the bad guys are usually better at violence.

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[–] [email protected] 134 points 3 days ago (13 children)

Violence really, really fucking sucks.

It may be necessary, but if there's any other option you should look to that first. If it legitimately comes to violence a lot of innocent people are going to suffer in a big way.

[–] [email protected] 147 points 3 days ago (14 children)

There were other options. I think those other options failed at this point in time.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 days ago (3 children)

In all fairness there are non violent support roles

[–] [email protected] 52 points 3 days ago

Somebody has to build the drones and c4 kits

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