cross-posted from: https://feddit.online/c/progressivepolitics/p/1590324/i-guess-we-re-just-waiting-around-to-see-if-this-demented-psychopath-kills-everyone-def
There is a particular indignity that comes from living in America, derived from the experience of waking up in the morning to see reports that Donald Trump has said something profoundly evil, and then needing to type “truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump” into your web browser to see if he actually said that. Once there, you can see a post in which Trump did indeed threaten to wipe out the entire civilization of Iran, stacked on top of an ad for a sketchy herbal supplement of some sort:
A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!
Guess it will depend if Israel tells him to.
How many generals does he have to fire before he finds one willing too launch nukes? Hopefully the whole military will start to refuse his orders.
This morning I heard a report that apparently there are soldiers at bases all over the world pushing back at the idea of going to Iran. The soldiers see that those operating this war are hopelessly inept, and it will only get much, much worse when they inject bodies into the situation.
Soldiers are willing to defend their country because they believe that those at the top truly have America’s best interests as their priority. It is very clear today that American Democracy is not even close to the top priority for MAGA. Soldiers aren’t willing to die to keep the Trump Epstein Files off the front page, especially since they’ll be taking orders from traitors who have already demonstrated that they are virtuosically incompetent.
On the doorstep of the apocalypse all because Donny raped kids and is trying to cover it up.
I totally agree with you about his motivation. That sick, twisted degenerate.
You’re delusional if you don’t think he’d be doing this without the epstein files
The Epstein files are just a distraction from a fascist takeover of USA and warmongering around the world in an attempt to isolate USA, so the population will be easier to control and so other countries won’t intervene when they inevitably start purging their political opponent and minorities.
It can be both
It’s fucking TACO Tuesday.
What’s everyone expect?
He’ll drop a dozen bombs on some children’s hospitals and schools, call it a major strategic victory and say they’re now begging to make a deal.
The strong man facade is just that.
My uncle still says the “Communism” Harris would have brought would be worse…I hate it here
My uncle still says the “Communism” Harris would have brought would be worse.
We’re you brave enough to ask “how, specifically?”
Your uncle sounds a lot like my uncle.
Hey Cousin, Let’s Go Bowling!
It’s that, or he orders the airforce to nuke Tehran. It is my hope that, should that happen, the military step in and remove him from power rather than follow such an order. It’s coming to some something when the best hope for the world would be a military coup in the US.
I hate the military… bunch of assholes with a god complex at the top and morons who can’t even find an illegal order with a fucking neon sign at the bottom. but anything is better than Trump. Hell I’d take military checkpoints every 5 miles if it gets me the fuck out of the Timeline that looks to be turning into Transphobic Pedophile Nuclear Hellfire every day.
He just TACO’ed a few minutes ago.
Fucking called it.
I hate my satire mind calling reality. This is bullshit man.
“TACO Tuesday”. One can only hope. The alternative is ghastly.
This
It’s Taco Tuesday everyone!
Congressional Switchboard: 202-224-3121 - Contact your representatives, ask them to support H.R. 1155 Articles of Impeachment, all 13 of them. Stop the madman, stop the madness.
It’s a noble thought but call your senators is a 1950s response to a modern problem.
There are literal articles of impeachment being brought in Congress (not the Senate), and contacting Representatives en masse does work.
Why are you on here discouraging people from doing something that could actually help? At the very worst, it does nothing.
Let me know when it works out for you.
FRiend, have you called your Congressional Representatives? H.R. (House Resolution) is appended to Bills in Congress, not Senate. Or are you just part of the modern problem? I’m happy to block trolls if you prefer. Have a nice day.
I don’t think that person even knows the difference between the House and the Senate
I appreciate your comment and I wish it were different. I haven’t called because there is no use. Hoping our lawmakers save us hasn’t been a tenable solution for a long time.
Prithy do tell, what solution(s) do you find tenable? Broodily commenting on the Fediverse, perhaps? smh
Unfortunately there are no viable solutions for us. We had our opportunity and we squandered it and now we’re living the consequences.
OpEd framed as news then?
Average mid-2020s Tuesday.
Could you imagine the public revolt if he’d alleged that an election had been cheated? Luckily it’s nothing as major as that, just a potential for protracted international war, increasing costs for citizens, loss of lives, more $billions transferred to the military from Public Services. How taxes and fuel prices might need to increase.
He did allege that the election was cheated?
This administration really shows how inactive citizens are in their own governance. They have the legal right to be raising hell over some of the worst possible things a government can be doing and the citizens don’t even try to exercise their constitutional responsibility to act.
You’re more than welcome to try coordinating that. That’s our first hurdle. Second is arming ourselves better than the military and DHS. If we fail, we get martial law and no midterm election.
Talk is easy. This defeatist rhetoric only discourages Americans. We should be empowering protestors. Protests are bringing people together and building an army.
No worries! We have another massive protest coming up that will happen on the permitted day, for the permitted time, in the permitted area!
Historically pressing him via protest results in him doing the bad thing. If you ignore him like your revise family member in the nursing home he is far less likely to do the bad thing.
The only way he gets any attention is behaving badly so ignoring him would probably make him act up even harder, like a toddler.
Citizens need something concrete to rally around. Protests that are ignored breeds apathy. I would be one thing if there was an alternative to the uniparty. Have you heard the tale of the three boxes?
The protests are good ways of meeting like-minded people in your community to form connections, as well as spreading awareness of local mutual aid groups so more can join or form ICE resistance groups who can join an encrypted chat to coordinate, alert neighbors, and talk strategy. It also is a good place for unions or union members to encourage others to unionize their workplaces, which can also ultimately work toward a national general strike, which is our most tangible and powerful collective action.
The country would be brought to its knees if suddenly deprived of profit and labor, allowing us to directly demand real changes (such as ending the war in Iran, ceasing support for the genocide of Palestine, and Abolishing ICE).
The General Strike was extremely effective in Chile in 2019, and had they not fallen for the trick of liberal reform, they would’ve had a successful revolution on their hands with virtually no bloodshed.
There are some concrete steps all of us can take toward enacting that hard-core general strike to make it more viable and bearable for us all. (the titles below expand if you click them).
Learn First Aid! ⛑️
Violence is being used against those who resist and it will only continue. It extremely important to have the skills to be able to keep yourself and others alive if they get hurt.
Tacticool Girlfriend provides a great introduction to building a personal first aid kit, called an IFAK, which can deal with things like bullet wounds and other serious bleeding wounds. I also want to emphasize her recommendation of only buying medical gear from reputable sources (not Amazon!), such as North American Rescue to avoid fakes that could cost you your life.
But you’ll need to learn how to use that equipment, too. The best resource for that is to take a local Stop The Bleed class, which are pretty widely available in most places. They may cost a small fee, but can also sometimes be free. Alternatively, if you cannot access a local class, this video by PrepMedic will give you a solid understanding of how to use Tourniquets and Gauze for wound packing.
Injuries are less harmful if they are tended to early. Learning first aid can help conserve resources when healthcare becomes unaffordable. Having several medics in case of harm by police is an extremely powerful morale booster during a protest that may become a police riot. When you become comfortable with the basics of first aid, riot medicine is the next suggested step.
Establish or join local Mutual Aid networks ✊
If you haven’t already, get to know your neighbors. Mutual aid is a willingness to support and grow your community. This can include informal networks through friends, tenant/renter organizations, solidarity groups, and industrial unions.
These are groups using direct action to solve each other’s problems. Building strong communities makes it difficult for fascism to take root. The actions of the government are going to hit every community hard, and the ones who build trust in each other and work together are most likely to survive. We’ve been building a list of resources in [email protected] to help you on your way. Also check out this handy guide to find existing groups in your area.
This isn’t only for your own community protection. Your ability to organize today will change the political landscape tomorrow. When revolution occurs, the social organizations that show the greatest resilience through the regime are the ones typically calling the shots when the dust settles. When it comes to elections, get out the vote drives are useless if most of the voters are fascists. At some point, you have to do grassroots political education if you don’t want fascist candidates winning elections. Mutual aid networks are excellent forums not only for teaching each other good political ideas, but demonstrating them in practice.
There’s also some projects you can do that help build community (and can be fun in themselves!), for more info, go here, and scroll down to the “Fun Projects to Build Community) section”
Join a Union to help prepare for a General Strike! 💪
If you aren’t in a union (or even if you are, it’s worth dual-carding), consider joining the IWW to unionize your workplace (bonus: you’ll get higher wages, better benefits, and more time off if you succeed!) to make a general strike possible.
Once you are in a union you and your coworkers will need to pressure your leadership to prepare for a general strike, as well as pressure them to organize with other unions to enact a general strike. This is especially true if you are in a more traditional union that isn’t the IWW. Your local shop may need to organize directly with other unions if your union leaders are too cowardly to do so.
Most unions have a strike fund that can supplement your income during a general strike to make it more financially bearable (you should also save as much money as you can reasonably do, so it can also be used to keep yourself afloat during a strike). A General Strike is officially planned by the UAW for May 1st 2028, but it was planned before Trump was elected, and by then will be too late, so prepare now for one that may start sooner.
You can contact the IWW with the link below:
And for our international friends, you should join one as well, as fascism is gaining momentum globally. If your country isn’t listed below, just contact the IWW directly in the link above, and they’ll help you set up a new local branch.
Adopt Security Culture and Digital Camouflage 🛡️
Sometimes benign seeming efforts can turn into unexpected personal data collecting traps. Like an obscure website for exchanging contact info with other students turning into a global ad-tech surveillance network (Facebook), or innocent seeming online personality tests being use to harvest character profiles. Even Etsy, Reddit, Tinder, and Duolingo are feeding information to US Government Agencies like ICE.
Security culture is commonly used to describe the general awareness of such potential traps and how it can affect groups or entire communities. This goes beyond mere individual privacy efforts, as without joint efforts these often fail to work.
Especially in activist circles, security culture is paramount. For opsec reasons not everyone in the group might be aware of what clandestine efforts others are involved in, but with a general security culture many potential data leaks can be avoided.
Movements are made by the volume of their participants, and the easier and less dangerous it is to participate, the more people will get involved. As more people get involved, individual involvement becomes even less dangerous, creating a virtuous cycle.
We’ll start it off with some General Advice:
- Mentally wall off personal uniquely identifying info from your online presence, actively build a habit of opsec so that withholding information is your default mental state
- Be careful about who you meet online
- Use different, unrelated usernames, passwords & emails for every account. And try not to connect to those accounts with your real IP address (use Tor or a VPN)
- Be mindful that anything done online leaves a trail
- agents provocateurs may seek to find patsies willing to perform an ill-advised illegal activity in order to legitimize police repression. If someone is trying to pressure you, especially if you don’t have a long and proven history with them, be extremely wary.
For a full guide on what encrypted communications platforms to use, and how to stay off the radar, read the Digital Camouflage section within the Monthly Meta post here (you’ll need to scroll down. I’d add it here, but it won’t fit in this comment).
I’d also highly recommend Full Spectrum Resistance to anyone who wants further info on how to resist (audiobook version here).
Well he isn’t going to drop the bombs himself. The people who carry out his genocidal orders will be just as guilty as him
TACOOOO TUUUUEEEEESSSDAAAAAY
