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Cake day: August 22nd, 2023

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  • Weird how that’s literally the only direction the people at the top ever ask for. And they, at the top, just stay there and don’t seek to help or support those bottom up tactics.

    And even though there are more out Nazis than cops, even just gumming up the works by pulling over a van full of them because they’re breaking the law is actually doing something useful. Tying up Nazis on the street and in court by pretending the law still exists is more than this learned helplessness by the most powerful people on our side. They don’t even need to look for them, just post a guy outside the federal building running plates that leave. Even if they just end up ignoring the citation, the propaganda value of police telling ICE they’re not above the law would be extremely valuable. But instead they throw up their hands and try to tell the people there’s nothing they can do. Every. Single. Time.


  • Ah yes, the domestic violence excuse. He could be beating you more.

    He’s the head of the state, with resources beyond just gently asking his people to turn the other cheek. He’s got the bully pulpit to call for strikes, he’s got the police to enforce plate laws and intervene when ICE breaks the law, he’s got the instruments of state to rewrite laws. All he does is chide the people.

    This is “a campaign of organized brutality” and all he can think of is take your phone out and turn the other cheek. Which is conveniently a thing other people will carry the burden for and for which he has to make zero hard decisions.








  • When he wasn’t even willing to say whether there may have already been illegal military actions any slight interest I had evaporated. Even his “fight” is the meekest moderate pushback, in court, eventually, and with no specific accusations about his opponent. We need someone who actually seems to feel something other than bemusement that his mild opposition garnered a response.

    FFS, Jerome Powell is putting up a more direct confrontation with the regime and he’s a Republican corporate tool whose whole persona is built on being respectful and unemotional.








  • Depends on what you expect to happen. If you think you could be arrested, leave it at home. If you just don’t want to be caught in a mass surveillance event, airplane mode is fine. You might not even care if you’re identified at something large and public like No Kings type events.

    People need to be aware of their threat profile, but having a mobile video recording device and using it as part of an influence campaign is a valuable tool. Going to a candle lit vigil and recording a video of a bunch of somber people to make your MAGA mom feel something is a different event and risk than going with some bloc comrades to sabotage ICE vehicles.