What can US citizens do to fight/prevent their country enabling genocide?
What can US citizens do to fight/prevent their country enabling genocide?
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Go to gaza
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- get a sniper rifle
- train to take out targets at a large distance
- know where and when ICE will be, especially where they will muster before one of their “raids”
- in many cases, there will be little to no difference between ICE and LEO. Both are putting on brown shirts and violently attacking their own communities.
Fascism can only be perpetuated when fascists do not fear being killed. If you are not with them, they will gladly kill you -- it’s time you took steps to protect yourself and your community.
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Unless you're a billionaire or willing to go full Player 2, there's nothing you can do on a macro scale.
You can, in your little slice of the world, do good things. When ICE asks you if you've seen someone, you tell them you haven't. If you're walking past a business getting raided and see a brown person, you tell them to turn around and get away. If you run a school and ICE shows up, you stand up for the kids they're trying to kidnap. If you see ICE kidnapping someone, at minimum, film and post it. If there's a group of people willing to physically intervene, join them.
That's it.
Voting doesn't solve this because all Democrats have to offer is strongly-worded letters, and Donald uses those letters to wipe Elon Musk's ass. Their choice was aiding and abetting fascism or getting richer, and they chose the money.
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Become Luigi.
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Is the USA enabling genocide currently? How?
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I don't know, but I know of one thing citizens SHOULDN'T do to prevent their country enabling genocide. That is forfeiting their future by electing a dictator that might genocide poor people on the other side of the world a little less in exchange for giving up freedoms. I get it. Voluntarily making our lives worse/harder because it might help poor people in another country sounds like a grand and noble thing to do. But now they're sending American citizens to concentration camps. If you think this was a fair trade, just block me right now. Don't be like gen Z and swing voters in the 2024 US election. Sometimes you just have to choose to save yourself first.
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Vote with your wallet. Money is the only thing that matters to the people in charge here
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Voting with your wallet is a lie, like recycling plastic
You can't do collective action individually. You can make the house hurt a little bit, but you'll never force them to change through what you buy. The house always wins, unless you get together to change the rules
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This but big. Large scale disruption to the economy would do a lot toward fixing problems.
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Can you give some examples?
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Buy local, in cash.
Every card transaction benefits the big credit card companies, all of which are complicit. Local businesses are some of the ones hit hardest from all of this and will need your support.
Avoid chains owned by local folks, too. Those big chains still benefit even if it's your neighbor that owns the local McDonalds.
Support things the government is trying to destroy, like your local library, and your local stores that sell LGBT positive merchandise.
Make friends with your neighbors. Grow things in your yard that they need and trade for stuff you need. Many folks that seem in agreement with all of this really aren't if you know them. We are stronger together.
In regards to home gardens, Not everyone needs everything, but everyone needs something. If you can get chickens or some kind of egg laying fowl, then that's a possibility as well. Guineas are fighters and do well in areas without a lot of brush or low trees.
Bike as much as you can. Avoid gas as much as you can. Ride the bus or a train. Don't fly anywhere. Install solar panels if you are able. Capture rain water and use it for your garden.
Buy used as much as possible, especially clothes.
Replace your single use materials in your home with reusable ones. Rags instead of paper towels, glass containers instead of plastic ones, metal straws, and a water pick instead of floss.
Make things. Anything. Don't monetize your hobbies, share them instead. Trade homemade goods and art for other stuff.
Avoid the dollar as much as possible, and use cash when you can't.
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Where possible, avoid buying from companies that are complicit. It’s not always possible but it’s worth trying.
I’ve used apps like this to help make decisions:
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Thanks for attempting an answer. I've got to say this feels laughable in light of what's going on.
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"vote with your wallet" while our wallets are empty
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join your local protests today :)
if protests didn't work they wouldn't try so hard to fight it/buty it
they say violence is never the answer but historically, well, history disagrees.
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My issue is I never know there ARE protests until like 4 days after it happened.
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Check for any local organizations such as DSA. Their mailing lists can keep you posted on protests near you
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ugh. for real though lol
I've been recommended 50501 and mobilize.us
there's also !50501@piefed.social and !Mirror@50501.chat on lemmy
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Next election vote EVERYONE OUT. No Republicans (MAGA) should be left in Congress to make sure they give a hell to Trump and force him to quit (almost near impossible) but that's the only way
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Someone is feeling positive and adventurous, talking about voting and stuff... Do you really think that you'll be able to vote in a fair election next time?
The work that I've seen done to sabotage voting before and after last US elections ntrlls me that cheeto&co are hell bent on making sure no one in the US will be able to vote honestly ever again.
The time to do something was 6 months ago, now its too little, too late
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the SPD and KPD should've just voted the Nazis out of power, right guys?
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It's worse than that. The guy is suggesting to replace the Nazis with Nazis-lite lol
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The Spanish went on general strike to stop their country's complicity in genocide, but failing that you can start with these guys. You can just write BDS on Wikipedia if you want to know what they're about, but this site has plenty of concrete, actionable steps you can take to reduce your, your community's, your workplace's and—with enough people on board—your country's complicity in genocide. I'd suggest looking into apartheid-free zones as a start. I also want to note that the best thing you can do for Palestinians is to spread the word and get more people on the side of humanity.
Also, if you're not already doing so, organize in your community and workplace, and use your collective leverage to push for causes you care about. Be an active participant in the fight against fascism and for democracy, equity and solidarity. These values, I should add, are already mutually exclusive with Zionism, so you'd be hitting two birds with one stone.
Edit: In case anyone wants assurance that this works (or just wants to enjoy some economic schadenfreude), enjoy.
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Spain did not go to general strike.
A general strike was convoked by a small union (as it is their right) and basically no one seconded the strike.
I don't think I could, on good faith, call it a general strike if basically no one stopped working. Was a very minoritarian thing. General strike was called as it is a right unions have, but if workers decide not to follow there's not a real strike to talk about.
Source: I'm Spanish and I clearly remember first hand what happened.
Second source: https://funcionpublica.digital.gob.es/dam/es/portalsefp/funcion-publica/dialogo-social/seguimiento-huelgas/27_9_2024_Datos_Huelga_General_convocada_por_CGT_y_SUO.pdf Strike supporting numbers for AGE workers. As you see about 1% of public workers followed the strike.
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Speak up, tell people what you think and why.
If that doesn't work: something was added to your constitution for this situation, the second amendment. You can use your six shooter to go up to the government's tank and gunships. Good luck.
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We don't put it in the tourism brochures, but it turns out guns are really expensive. Which sucks because the fash seem to have all the money at the moment.
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Buy a gun, and start learning to use it. Now is not the time, but be prepared should it.
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Stop supporting the right wing duopoly that enabled it
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On an individual level one should also start getting fit and learning basic defensr/boxing.
E: To be clear I am not saying we should start fights, but fitness is overall useful and healthy. Being able to defend oneself is important to confidently defuse a situation too.
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Fuck I'll say that. The best thing for everybody is if Nazis are physically afraid to walk the streets.
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Bold of you to assume they walk anywhere. This is America not communist China with public sidewalks and transit.
/s
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Sing a bar of Alice's restaurant...
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You can get anything you want
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Turning it off and on again
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Not much that will have direct actionable results tbh but it doesn't mean you should not a proper position within your abilities.
Boycott, awareness spreading, voting but that's even more limited
Just generally going into opposition v the two party regime that ensures that there is no viable way to stop the us from supporting Israel
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