Serious question, what would you do if you were in America? Call your buddies and organize a march? Start offing people by yourself? Stand on a street corner with a sign? Donate money to a contradicting politician?
This game plan is enacted by design, it’s what makes fascist regime takeovers work, what makes it difficult to organize and resist. You have a husband, kids, a mortgage, a job, car payments, need to put food on the table.
Serious question, what would you do if you were in America? Call your buddies and organize a march? Start offing people by yourself? Stand on a street corner with a sign? Donate money to a contradicting politician?
I’ll go further than that. What do you expect to accomplish? What are you expecting other citizens to actually accomplish? And what do you think the realistic results of your actions will be?
People keep saying to arm up, as if ICE is going to just show up to your door, see that you’re armed, and say “Aw, shucks”. They’ll go home while you stand on your front porch, standing triumphantly as the evil authorities slink away while the rest of the neighborhood claps?
No, what’s going to happen is that they’ll call in reinforcements. And by “Reinforcements”, I mean they’ll have enough people to play Team Deathmatch with your driveway as their base. If you’re lucky, they’ll drag your ass out of the house, cuffed up and in your underwear at 3 in the morning. Most likely, though, they’ll just remove the splattermark that used to be you from the walls with a squeegee after they’re done accounting for the 278 rounds, 2 grenades, and a flashbang that they sent into your bedroom. Oh, and if you are alive, now you’ve got felony gun possession and attempted murder charges tacked to you (or outright murder of an officer if you manage to kill a cop), giving them the exact charges needed to justify the removal you were trying to prevent in the first place.
Planning on storming the capitol alone? The most you can expect is being the subject of another “Man with manifesto shot, killed at state capitol building” article on CNN for about 5 minutes before you’re forgotten completely. Well, outside of the stigma that your family will have to deal with every time they have to explain that they’re the son/daughter/brother/whatever of “that guy. You know the one. The one that tried to shoot up the capitol that one time…”
Organizing a resistance? Yeah, good luck getting any kind of organization together without getting infiltrated long, long before you achieve any meaningful number or manage to gather any meaningful amount of resources. All it takes is just one suspected member carrying a cell phone and they’ll just round up the entire group and send them on an involuntary tropical vacation.
So for all the Rambos out there who think that they’re the next John Connor or something, feel free to tell us exactly what you think we should be doing.
I was told on this very site a few months back I wasn’t serious because I couldn’t go to a Hands Off protest due to work obligations.
So many people have no clue how many of us have to keep our means so we can show up when we are able, donate when we are able, and be able to position ourselves to help our communities
Serious question, what would you do if you were in America? Call your buddies and organize a march? Start offing people by yourself? Stand on a street corner with a sign? Donate money to a contradicting politician?
This game plan is enacted by design, it’s what makes fascist regime takeovers work, what makes it difficult to organize and resist. You have a husband, kids, a mortgage, a job, car payments, need to put food on the table.
I’ll go further than that. What do you expect to accomplish? What are you expecting other citizens to actually accomplish? And what do you think the realistic results of your actions will be?
People keep saying to arm up, as if ICE is going to just show up to your door, see that you’re armed, and say “Aw, shucks”. They’ll go home while you stand on your front porch, standing triumphantly as the evil authorities slink away while the rest of the neighborhood claps?
No, what’s going to happen is that they’ll call in reinforcements. And by “Reinforcements”, I mean they’ll have enough people to play Team Deathmatch with your driveway as their base. If you’re lucky, they’ll drag your ass out of the house, cuffed up and in your underwear at 3 in the morning. Most likely, though, they’ll just remove the splattermark that used to be you from the walls with a squeegee after they’re done accounting for the 278 rounds, 2 grenades, and a flashbang that they sent into your bedroom. Oh, and if you are alive, now you’ve got felony gun possession and attempted murder charges tacked to you (or outright murder of an officer if you manage to kill a cop), giving them the exact charges needed to justify the removal you were trying to prevent in the first place.
Planning on storming the capitol alone? The most you can expect is being the subject of another “Man with manifesto shot, killed at state capitol building” article on CNN for about 5 minutes before you’re forgotten completely. Well, outside of the stigma that your family will have to deal with every time they have to explain that they’re the son/daughter/brother/whatever of “that guy. You know the one. The one that tried to shoot up the capitol that one time…”
Organizing a resistance? Yeah, good luck getting any kind of organization together without getting infiltrated long, long before you achieve any meaningful number or manage to gather any meaningful amount of resources. All it takes is just one suspected member carrying a cell phone and they’ll just round up the entire group and send them on an involuntary tropical vacation.
So for all the Rambos out there who think that they’re the next John Connor or something, feel free to tell us exactly what you think we should be doing.
I was told on this very site a few months back I wasn’t serious because I couldn’t go to a Hands Off protest due to work obligations.
So many people have no clue how many of us have to keep our means so we can show up when we are able, donate when we are able, and be able to position ourselves to help our communities