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With federal agents storming the streets of American communities, there's no single right way to approach this dangerous moment. But there are steps you can take to stay safe—and have an impact.

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[–] kokesh@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The only correct way to get rid of gestapo is to shoot the gestapo.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, that's hard to do at scale — a small group will be outgunned by the federal government, and a large one infiltrated. People are using nonviolent civil resistance instead for now

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

People are using nonviolent civil resistance instead for ~~now~~ for the last year to absolutely zero effect.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 13 points 2 weeks ago

Its actually having a rather significant effect of greatly limiting ICE and — in the past few days — convincing the bulk of Democrats that they no longer want to fund ICE and even getting a couple dozen to support impeaching Noem.

We wont win tomorrow, but we will win over a period of years