With federal agents storming the streets of American communities, there’s no single right way to approach this dangerous moment. But there are steps you can take to stay safe—and have an impact.
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a 900 count box of loose roofing nails is $18. four flat tires is about $800, plus a $400 tow.
if you can get all the tow companies to reject to tow the vehicle will block traffic for hours if not days.
cleanup is easy. just get a magnet.
latex paint can be stored in balloons. it’s slippery and gets into everything. it can jam and damage firearms and make tasers no longer function safely. add in some sand to the paint and it’s even worse.
lots of ways to resist without killing. just annoy the fuck out of them and waste their time. if they’re dealing with the general public they can’t abduct the people they’re targeting.
Underrated hero
The only correct way to get rid of gestapo is to shoot the gestapo.
Unfortunately, that’s hard to do at scale — a small group will be outgunned by the federal government, and a large one infiltrated. People are using nonviolent civil resistance instead for now
People are using nonviolent civil resistance instead for
nowfor the last year to absolutely zero effect.Its actually having a rather significant effect of greatly limiting ICE and — in the past few days — convincing the bulk of Democrats that they no longer want to fund ICE and even getting a couple dozen to support impeaching Noem.
We wont win tomorrow, but we will win over a period of years
I mean, on a individual level, some of that civil resistance has very real effects. In Minneapolis, I know a friend who helped de-arrest 5 people in one day. Every one of those people would be stuck in a cold warehouse cage right now wondering how their life is about to be ripped apart. Now they have some semblance of a community that takes active steps to protect them.
And as a united community, not an individual they can scape goat.
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People are very deliberately not doing that. The idea (for the moment) is to use civil resistance to limit what ICE can accomplish while not provoking a gun battle where the federal government can outgun any local group
Animal costumes and chants are not going to end this.
You and two buddies with rifles won’t either. It takes wining Congress. Right now animal costumes which causes pepper balls to fall to the ground instead of bursting are doing more for us than guns
Do you think the Democrats will stop any of this?
When they are now longer in the minority, yes
What do you hope they will do?
I’m expecting a cut to ICE funding do that they are not staffed to launch military occupations of cities
People shooting at, or killing ICE officers is exactly what the regime wants so they can declare martial law.
And sooner or later they’ll find whatever thin excuse they need, at which point this excuse no linger protects fascists.
Trump is going to fabricate some bullshit excuse to declare martial law regardless.
Have you not been following the news? That happened, multiple times, and the courts shot him down. Protesters actually shooting at ICE will give him what he needs to satisfy the courts of a civil emergency.
Throw eggs
Eggs? In this economy?
Aim for the pelvis. It isn’t armored, it’s easier to hit than the head, and wounds there can be incapacitating or even fatal.
Yes! And it’s easier to watch what thier hands are doing when you aim low! Plus most poeple miss high so your shots will still hit the torso. I started training myself to aim for lower gut, instead of center mass when I target shoot.
Barricades and firebombs
pass out guns to trusted neighbors
People are not doing that because any group small enough to be trusted will be outgunned by the federal government
The US was outgunned by the british, they still won. The Vietnamese and apghanis were outgunned by the US, they still won.
American losses in revolutionary war, 25k. Vietnamese losses in Vietnam war, 882k. Afghan deaths in US occupation, 241k. These figures don’t include those that died in the societal upheaval that followed.
Deaths at the hands of ICE, around 30. Public opinion of ICE has plummeted with the majority of Americans actually supporting abolishment. We are getting more and more frequent incidents of residents and protesters sending ICE packing by filming them and asserting their civil rights. ICE in turn is getting more violent, which is only going to drive public opinion and the courts to further oppose them.
I’m not saying it’s my favored strategy. I’m saying that being outgunned doesn’t mean the result would be a forgone conclusion.
The result for the people killed would be pretty foregone.
