People should start filming and livestreaming all this shit asap
Haha internet goes [Error 404]
(Shoutout to Briar, an app that lets you communicate without the internet, very useful for an organized group of protesters)
Isn’t that basically what signal already does or is there something I should know about signal?
No.
Signal, while is End-to-End encrypted and cool, but it requires the central server. If the government shuts down the internet, you can’t organize your protest
But Briar does not require a central server and lets you connect via internet (via tor), bluetooth, or share between devices connected to the same wifi.
Imagine a protest where everyone is using Brair (and have added everyone as contacts), they could create a forum and one message from one end of the street can travel across the entire swarm of protesters, doesn’t matter if the government shut down the internet.
(I mean… at least until they figure out what y’all are doing and they start jamming bluetooth signals… 🤔 but even then, jammers have limited range, especially at the bluetooth spectrum)
All data is on your device (and all other devices the forum is shared with), there is no central server to take down content.
Don’t take your phone to protests.
Depending on you goal.
For leaderless anonoymous protests, and you want to stay alive, sure.
For organized groups that are willing to take some risk and be martyrs, its worth considering.
Use a custom OS (like Graphene OS), turn on airplane mode, use bluetooth to communicate via brair. Its much harder (but not impossible) to track people this way.
Once you’re at the protest you can talk in person. Sure,. Maybe organizers need some form of communication (and hopefully they do it securely), but otherwise there’s no need. You can just speak with people. People have been protesting far longer than cell phones have existed.
Even people willing to take risks and be martyred should do it in a way that advances the goal. They shouldn’t try to let themselves be tracked and watched/arrested in private away from the protest. If you’re being arrested it should be forced to be in public and made into a show.
Yeah. Take someone else’s.
Smart!
Oh that’s great to know, thank you!! Definitely gonna keep that one in my back pocket.
No IOS client though. I do also have android phone so I could load it up on that.
have used briar. it works and will be a vital tool. get your peeps to install and have it at the ready.
Theres are also Public Forums FYI. Not a lot of activity, but its like a secret club on the internet. Although the bot is often down, so you might have to wait a while to get added. I have the forums if you want to join (Briar Link: briar://ac5dsvvrwm4mnalxdonumapfwolvbjdxuosuxkn2yfizfiey6b6uq)
ACLU has an app for police encounters that sends it directly to them for if the cop tries to delete from your phone
Unfortunately that app is for an old version of Android and I can’t actually download it on my phone. It has a lot of negative reviews saying it keeps crashing or freezing which sucks because I’d really like an app like that that works.
Doesn’t the citizen app do that as well?
Citizen app requires too many permissions right at the start for me to ever use it over ACLU
I truly believe that anyone that believes that it’s already happening will have their beliefs cemented, the people that reject any notion of fascism will reject it, and the people that are on the fence are too old or too dumb to actually make an informed decision
Nah. All we need to believe is some text on a picture. It’s all true!
My friends in gov are experiencing this stuff. Emails telling them to report all DEI contracts or face consequences. Shits real.
Can confirm from people I know as well. Lots of McCarthy-style “rat out your coworkers.”
Yea it’s not like the leader of the fascist party just did two back to back Nazi salutes whilst the magat filth cheered him on.
Did you bother to look into these claims at all? Or, are you doing practically the exact same thing you’re claiming the OP is doing; assuming?
There’s that worthless centrist logical superiority, doing what it always does. Nothing.
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That’s a terrible fucking idea and a quick way to get killed.
People still have no idea how bad it’s going to get. People are still acting like this is just normal bad, a unfortunate moment in our otherwise decent system and society. This is not the reality. Things are going to get bad. This isn’t doomerism, this is reality.
Please, take the necessary steps to secure and provide for you and your loved ones, and genuinely consider developing some kind of exit strategy. Do not downplay this until it’s too late; be prepared before the sky turns red.
One of the biggest lies of my life is hearing, “never again”. It’s happening again and nobody is stopping it. Everyone is asleep at the wheel.
“never again” = “never again, to us”
Got nowhere to go.
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Yeah, America is a overtly fascist nation now.
Always was. 🔫
For the younger generation, yeah, probably, for us older folks, we still remember a time when America at least kept the veneer that we were better than Nazis.
Ima just post a comment I left on another morally nostalgic commenter:
Well, we started out with a genocide so terrible Hitler idolized it and called it “The First Great Cleansing”. Also, you ever seen this image from the 1940’s? It’s in Madison Square Garden.
Also, when did America join the fight against the axis powers? Oh, 2 years after the war began? Only after Pearl Harbor? You’d think a country so moral would join the fight against genocide quicker.
America was never a good, decent or moral country.
Henry Ford was a Nazi. Ringing any bells?
More questions for the American Moral Supremacists:
When were black people welcomed into the citizenship and regarded as equals?
When did women get access to bank accounts?
What happened to the buffalo?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_genocide_in_the_United_States
Yeah, welcome to every fucking nation ever. Show me a nation that’s been completely and utter clean with no mass genocides or atrocities and I’ll show you a god damn unicorn that shits rainbows.
No one is going that America was a pristine fucking nation that has done no wrong outside of these Nazi Republicans but if you think that a single moment like this with these Nazis supporters being in the minority defined America even at that time, you need to read a history book. Also just because America was hesitant to join the war since you know the great depression, still reeling from WWI, among other factors doesn’t mean America was all “Go Nazis! Go!” that you’d like to paint America. Again, read a damn history book.
But hey, you feel free to think that America was always full of Nazis and never made any progress, there isn’t anything I can say that will change your mind about that anyways.
Regardless of what each of us thinks about the history of America, America’s got a very public, very vocal, and very much Nazis in power now and it’s going to suck.
Nice excuses. I won’t be making them though. Those excusals got America to where it is right now. Turn the other cheek, nothing is bad because everything is bad. No progress, no looking back.
Just anger, right now.
Shoo pigeon, I don’t want to play chess with you.
Could your point be shortened to “what about it”? I think so…
Anyone whose country suffered through a period of fascist dictatorship will tell you that that making children swear the pledge of allegiance thing was fascist as fuck, and that’s just the tip of the shitberg.
That alleged veneer was gossamer thin at its thickest.
You weren’t fooling anyone outside your borders.
There’s not really one clean cut definition of fascism, mostly a lot of “I know it when I see it”
That being said, one definition I find kinda useful is; “Fascism is what we call it when an imperial power begins applying colonial policies to itself; the frontier comes home.” Germany had already been organizing concentration camps in northern Africa years before they started rounding up Jewish people. As a colonial power, Germany always had fascist policies, they were just directed outward.
By this metric, it’s hard not to see the US as a fascist power for… most of the latter half of the twentieth century? Obviously, outright colonization isn’t the standard anymore. It’s mostly mediated through international businesses, propped up by the occasional secretly-funded coup or even an outright military invasion. Those of us living within the official boarders of the US have just been privileged enough to not have to live with the negative consequences.
Or you could use Umberto Eco’s “Ur Fascism” definition.
Now even sporting a GeStaPo (Geheime Staats-Polizei or Secret Federal Police). They were the ones who rounded up the “enemies of the state” in Nazi Germany.
Yeah, I got an email in my gov address encouraging me to disclose any DEI stuff within the next ten days without any penalties or face penalties of it’s discovered after that.
It’s important to resist this in any way you can. One of the strengths of democracy is that because so many people are part of government, it requires a lot of people to participate in making dictatorship work. It can happen, as in Russia or North Korea, but it isn’t supposed to be easy.
The first step I’d suggest is to establish private communication with others in your department so you can coordinate a response without your supervisors knowing. A mass walkout/general strike in the case of firings should be a consideration.
They’re literally going to schools and going “Papers, please”.
Ring any bells?
No no that’s just the Ministry of Truth
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
GOD IS POWER.
In the words of the late great David Lynch, “Fix your hearts, or die”
Original source (reddit)
They’re talking about the federal Veterans Administration, in case that’s unclear.
Edit: I’ve also confirmed with a federal employee I know that this is happening at the SBA as well, this is probably happening throughout the federal government.
Is it illegal to disobey an executive order? It’s not a law so what happens if one refuses to comply?
Executive orders have the force of law, until courts shut it down.
So its not illegal as long as the court side with you in the end (but you might still get fired if you are a government employee that disobeyed orders)
looks at the composition of the supreme court
ohh… right… 😖
Executive orders have less force than federal law.
It’s not illegal, but most government employees work for the executive branch, so you can theoretically be fired for not obeying the chief executive (president). Just like someone at a company can be fired for disobeying the CEO, unless there is actually a law protecting the specific behavior.
I love democracy
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There are women and people of color in the Trump administration. I think people need to start reporting him for his DEI hiring.
Too much acronyms for me.
I think it’s the Opus Dei, some kind of hard line catholic group from the Vatican.
Oh God… For a second I thought this was an answer to my post about recognising a bird!
What is VA?
Probably Veterans Administration, a federal agency that would be expected to comply with the executive orders.
Veterans Administration
What does a “VA police officer” do? Or look like?
Basically the federal version of the hospital security guard. They look like regular cops but with a fed badge.
What’s a VA?
Veterans administration, hospital for military vets
I’m glad you answered that; I thought it was referring to a policeman employed by the state of Virginia.
I’m seeing posts on Nextdoor about it in Charlottesville, so that too I guess
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