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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 8 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Ok but there is quite a way between going oh I don't like what's happening on social media and blowing yourself up.

Write to your representatives and make it extremely clear that if they want to be reelected they will stand up to Trump.

Massive protests, the No Kings protest were good but then you all kind of just gave up. Nothing violent but just a stubborn refusal to go along is all that is required. Boycott companies that support Trump, don't buy the next iPhone (it's basically the same phone every year anyway), don't go to FIFA, don't go to the Olympics, go to as many town meetings as you can and raise points of order and complain. Make it even possible for the powers that be to ignore the situation.

Just imagine you're a French dock worker complaining about industrialisation.

[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Don't waste your time writing to representatives. Democracy is gone, bud, you need to start imagining that you are living under the nazi regime. Arm yourself and network with activists. Make contacts now while you still can.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 4 minutes ago

I only mentioned writing to representatives because the original poster was so keen to do nothing. Anything's better than that kind of apathy.