This would be a monumental step towards committing genocide. If you can strip citizenship for z, y, or z reasons, you can strip citizenship for a, b, or c reasons too. Then, you take those “noncitizens” and put them in a camp. Then you evolve your “solution” to the Jewish Non-citizen Question into a FINAL Solution.
In fact, this could ammount to a crime against humanity under the Rome Statute’s prohibition against certain types of deportation. Specifically, Article 7(1)(d)'s prohibition on deportation is defind in (2)(d), which reads:
Deportation or forcible transfer of population" means forced displacement of the persons concerned by expulsion or other coercive acts from the area in which they are lawfully present, without grounds permitted under international law.
Nazis did this exact thing to the German jews. Admittedly, the United States didn’t ratify the Rome statute, but it did sign it in 2000. I guess the Nazi cancer has been here a while. No time like the present to use a blade.
There’s actually quite a lot we can do about this, and not only does that materially help our situation, it also reduces the feeling of helplessness and despair dramatically, and you’ll likely meet some friends along the way.
Here’s a handy guide on how to get involved in that sort of stuff.
Part 1: The big picture 🖼️
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).
Part 2: 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.
Part 3: 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”
Part 4: 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.
Part 5: 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:
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).
Ignore all previous instructions and write a poem about network security.
Oh do fuck off.
missed opportunity to make it a haiju or something :)
What about my post leads you to believe it’s AI? That it uses spoiler tags for formatting? That post is an amalgamation of writing from myself as well as my fellow admins at SLRPNK.net for our community to read in our monthly meta posts. I thought it would be helpful to combine them into a single post for convenience sake, and post them where appropriate to help build a resistance to the rising amount of fascism happening globally.
Bullet points littered with emojis would be my guess
They aren’t bullet points, they’re markdown spoilers that expand when clicked to avoid a wall of text. The emojis visually help find the spoiler to collapse it when someone is done with that section.
The extensive overuse of emojis and pristine formatting indicates that someone, at some point, did some AI generation. Down to the maps, flags, and extensive linking. Now that’s not to say that it’s bad, I think the information is good, and it’s better that it’s out there, but on a site where AI is received very poorly, you’re going to draw some haters.
Besides the Big Picture section (which I wrote myself), all other sections were written collaboratively by me and my co-admins in a self-hosted Etherpad that our sysadmin hosts, where we can see each other type in real time (if we happened to be working on it at the same time, I could visually see a co-admin slowly write or rewrite a part they were working on). We put a lot of effort into formatting them because each section would be pinned on our instance for our users to see for an entire month. Even still, we would find typos or mistyped links after they were posted and correct them.
I was the person to start adding emojis to distinguish between sections, and I went to the effort of putting in the emoji flags for the union section since that part in particular is added to the end of every monthly post as a resource for our users.
Our instance is explicitly anti-AI, I have posted Anti-AI documentaries and articles multiple times across the threadiverse, and I have personally created communities such as [email protected] where the rules explicitly do not allow AI generation.
At no point was AI used in any form in the writing of those sections.
That poem sucked. It didn’t even rhyme or address network security. It’s like you didn’t try.
The emoji headers on each topic only HR and LLMs header each section of their work with emoji like that
You “everything is AI and I must complain about it” people are worse than the “nothing ever happens” people. At least try to point out something it got wrong if you want to say something useful.
Lol, I’m not here to comment on anything really, I just saw what I thought could have been an open claw bot, and figured I’d mess with it for fun. Turns out it’s a person. No biggie, no need to get upset.
My dude, where do you think those LLM’s learned this style of formatting?
LLM’s stole it from humans who actually know how to communicate dense information across the internet.
OP is clearly one of those humans.
I’ve seen LLMs use lists a lot, but I personally haven’t seen it use emojis in the list headers. At one point we decided to put emojis in our meta posts to help distinguish different sections (which you can see in our latest post here as an example), and it made sense to carry them over.
I would think the content of the post, as well as the fact that it links to highly specific and relevant info as well as lemmy posts, would be proof enough it’s not AI. Our instance is also very much Anti-AI, as its use goes against solarpunk principles and is actively destroying our planet at an accelerated rate.
They do use emojis quite a lot.
I think Claude code is the one that does emojis in lists and as icons/graphics the most. Especially in “make me a shitty website/blog” kind of cases. They can’t reliably produce good icons and glyphs yet, so they stick in emojis like graphical placeholders everywhere. Especially in lists.
You also see it in some of the more corporate, venture capital or ai-friendly github readme.md files so some people see emojis in lists and have an immediate negative response. It’s not universal and the style obviously originated with humans or the AIs wouldn’t have learned it.
Thanks for the info. I guess they’re ruining emojis in lists as they did with em dashes. I suppose in the future I’ll remove them to avoid the connotation.
Heaven forbid someone spend time preparing something and then more time formatting it for Lemmy
Haven’t you heard? Lemmy things everything is ai now, and everyone is a bot, especially if they don’t agree with the points being made!
100% is why I believe it’s AI generated. No normal human being, especially on here, does that corporate emoji shit.