What did the German Citizenship do in 1934? Because they voted in 1932 to make the Nazi party the largest single party in the Reichstag and for the next 2 years they had no input on the machinations of Hitler to become a dictator. Any of that sound familiar?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler's_rise_to_power

The speed at which the German government was dismantled was extreme. In less than 45 days after Hindenburg died, Hitler was a dictator. DOGE and Trump are making much of the same changes to our government. Fascist or Monarchist or Oligarchy or Kleptocracy, it doesn’t matter. Our government is currently being dismantled at a rate at which our institutions have never seen before.

https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-research/policy-topics/democracy-governance/analyzing-doge-actions-one-month-trumps-second

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/02/21/trump-wild-first-month-doge-musk/78657028007/

Polls don’t matter once they’re in power. The only thing that’s going to stop this is large unified action at the local level and probably a general strike. Both of which take time to organize and to do so in an encrypted and secure way. That takes time. We’re years away.

If you’d like to join an open unencrypted movement you can start at the below links.

https://generalstrikeus.com/aboutus

https://www.fiftyfifty.one/

If you’re interesting in organizing locally you could follow the suggestions in this comment.

https://lemmy.world/comment/14983176

or check out https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]

https://socialistra.org/about

Death Cult gonna Death Cult

All gun control in the past has been to disarm marginalized populations and put ownership behind a paywall and within a national registry. I don’t think they’ll ban gun ownership for everyone, however I foresee ownership to be much more stringently controlled and for tax stamps to increase. Making it so that the majority of guns are still owned and operated by white middle to upperclass men, or private security and law enforcement that serve the wealthy to protect property and the current power structure as it stands.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_law_in_the_United_States

https://socialistra.org/

I’d be surprised if there aren’t massive changes to gun laws in the next 2 years and a giant restructure of the military in the next 3 so that Trump or one of his cronies can still be in power in 5…

Exactly, fascists give zero fucks about public sentiment once they’re in power. All they need to do is control the media and polls will align with their goals again. Case in point is the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-02-19/donald-trump-gulf-of-mexico-gulf-of-america

Edit as things are moving very fast.

Here’s an even more boldfaced attempt at controlling the media. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/fox-news-newsmax-oppose-trump-ap-ban_n_67b85283e4b05145b9c53cce

Teddy

Thanks for this, I’m gonna share this.

Was gonna say rural Poland

It’s a phishing campaign. Update signal and don’t give strangers your details. Also the windows desktop app sucks. Due to windows being insecure.

Please rethink that career path.

Every defense lawyer in a shooting case is going to claim mental duress in a shooting.

People who commit racially motivated crimes don’t get the benefit of the doubt.

Does this man have a history of mental health problems? Are they under the care and supervision of a mental health provider? Are they taking anti psychotic meds?

If any of those statements are true, what were they doing in possession of a firearm in the first place?

Nice to see it’s recurring, i went to the one near me on the 5th

Today?

The instant anything is posted on here it’s already been scraped. Know this. Act accordingly.

Some tips to help you out

• don’t take your phones to the protest
• if you take a burner, don’t take it home. buy it, and trash it at the protest.
• don’t take anything that could identify you as you
• superglue and baking soda on your fingerprints. don’t go crazy, just enough to make printing you impossible/difficult
• write any important phone numbers on your arm or ankle in permanent marker if you can’t remember them
• stuff a couple hundred dollars for bail in your shoe
• don’t give ANYONE your real name. don’t care how hot they are or how impassioned they are, just fucking don’t
• designate one trusted individual to come get you from jail. they are not to bring their phone, they should park at least 1/4 mile away and walk to get you(long enough to realize you’re being tailed by police).

Pay attention to your surroundings, specifically the movement of officers/agents. if they’re running you should be too. if there’s a large group marching or a wall marching, leave immediately and regroup.

ICE will be there. they will be picking people up. many of them not illegal. if you’re not white, wear makeup if you can get away with it. paint your face with state colors if need be. not a mask, so it shouldn’t be covered by “no-mask” states.

Know your rights. Bring the proof of your rights. Force them to acknowledge your rights.

Stream everything.

If you are picked up you will;

• go on a list
• be unlawfully monitored
• become a link in a larger web to ensnare organizers

You will now go dark for at least a month. No social media posts about the protests, no discussions about the protests, nothing. After that, it should be difficult to pair your online activity with your real world activities.

If you can’t make it to the protests, record the streams, share them online, pressure the public to demand answers for the crimes committed by the officers/agents.

One last thing.

There will undoubtedly be people there to provoke the protests. do not let them. once one incident of violence is determined all bets off and the police will become physically involved.

Trust no one, question everything, power to the people. 🫵

This message from a colleague will live here until the death of Lemmy

For further research here’s a great video on mutual aid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfJNbCBqYV8