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The community dedicated to boycotting the US until they stop fascism, restore full democracy and start following international law.

Americans have a moral obligation to resist Donald Trump and project 2025 at every turn.

America is a flawed democracy currently being ruled by oligarchs. Stop the backslide! Dont let America become the next Hungary.

America needs to challenge the court rulings of citizens united v. fec and shelby county v. holder, protect the media, implement independent district drawing, and the single transferable vote so they don't end up having people stay home in life-changing elections because they cannot vote for their favourite candidate.

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[–] [email protected] 162 points 1 week ago (19 children)

no matter what you think of (maybe illegal) immigrants, tying up minors is totally stupid. typically american, i would even say!

[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 week ago

The cruelty is the point, as per standard procedure.

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[–] [email protected] 123 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is America now.

I'm ashamed of my country.

[–] [email protected] 111 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago

The pretense has fallen

[–] [email protected] 100 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If people wondered what they would do during the 1930s, now we know.

A lot of people would cheer for the Nazis.

I know I'm not doing enough, and it's depressing as heck. Most people I know are doing less. No protests. Not talking about it. Just head in the sand.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's still early. The Nazis took over in 1933, but their first euthanasia program didn't start until 1936. The Holocaust didn't really start in earnest until about 1939.

We can't let it get that far, of course, but the point is that it will take some time to get bad enough for people to start really fighting back. I suspect that protests will get really ugly and violent next summer, in the closing stretch before the 2026 Midterm Election.

[–] booly 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There are a lot of different ways to resist. I'm throwing my money and some volunteer effort at lawsuits to gum up the works, add friction to a bunch of the Trump administration's decisions, and make them expend a ton of resources even to accomplish the things within their power (or that are inevitable).

I know people who are feeding bad data into the surveillance state, clogging immigration and DEI tip lines with plausible but ultimately incorrect leads that waste their time.

There's a pretty serious boycott movement and it is making a difference to some businesses' bottom lines.

There's a bunch of other ways to contribute:

  • Stirring the pot and feeding internal faction rivalries, like DOGE vs populist MAGA vs business interests. Elon Musk has lost a few prominent internal fights (China briefing at the Pentagon, hand picked IRS chief fired less than a week in, his NASA pick being withdrawn). These guys think chaos is a ladder, but chaos can swallow them up, too.
  • Disruption with plausible deniability: blocking doors and driveways that look unintentional, jury nullification, firing Trumpers for pretextual reasons, wasting Trump supporting businesses' time and money, pranks that cause Trumpers to gather in the wrong place, etc.
  • Further escalation as situations warrant.

If things escalate to where property destruction, outright fraud or scams or other white collar crime, or violence is justified, it won't be sudden. It will be a gradual build up, with legal resistance giving way to nonviolent disruption to property destruction and theft to violent resistance. But I think it's worth exhausting the less disruptive options first, and be satisfied that escalation is justified at each step where that actually happens.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

I like the way you think.

I particularly think sabotage and malicious compliance strategies can be very effective at weaponizing their virtuosic incompetence against them.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I think some of these protests so far are controlled opposition to prevent real progressive movement in preference for same old bs from DNC. We need to weed out the fakes

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What makes you think that that sentiment itself isn't fostered by controlled opposition? Don't get me wrong, as an anarchist I have no love for Democrats or republicans. But unfortunately with our electoral system the way it is. Realistically we have to be bedfellows with one or the other at some level of government.

At least of course until all national parties are abolished, and the electoral system reformed. Trying to push change from the top down has backfired every single time. The unions thought it would be good to give Carter a lesson. And instead Carter lost and they ended up becoming irrelevant. There's plenty of parallels between that and the recent presidential election. Honestly I don't think the Office of the President shouldn't even exist. It's too much power just begging to be abused as it currently is.

That will only change however by building up local parties and making National parties irrelevant, or at least serving the interest of the accountable local parties. Till then we can gnash and wail, grinding our teeth at every shitty candidate the National Party puts forward. But as long as they are in control and full of shitty candidate fodder. That's never going to change. But us focusing on that over everything else certainly enables the worst actors in society.

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 week ago (2 children)

America needs to change their anthem.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Team America has some bangers they could use. And most would not even get the satire

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

team america only starts as satire, in the end it's pretty ra ra usa

[–] funkless_eck 8 points 1 week ago

Parker and Stone would also just make a cartoon character about an American soil genocide, but have it to the B plot of an episode bullying trans people.

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

That sundress and hair bow are a clear sign of possible violence. I'm pretty sure that pink butterflies are some sort of gang sign. I'm so glad those officers are now safe from that threat. Bless. 🙏

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

Sundress is where they hide their handguns though

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 week ago

Nazis doing Nazi things.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 week ago (1 children)

but if I were to cut them loose, I would be the criminal?

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 week ago (2 children)

If you were to shoot the fascists next to them in the head, I would consider you to be the hero.

[–] AlecSadler 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hell, I'll chip in for bail

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Friend, if you shoot a cop you do not survive to receive bail

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 week ago

Nazi fucks.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The Americans don't consider them children, to them they are "subhumans"

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Republicans like to call the minorities “adults” the moment they’re born in an attempt to diminish their innocence.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

you mean "the moment they're conceived", right? adulthood starts at conception obv

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

All immigration officers that follow orders are like Nazi SS, a human would refuse to carry these ideals through

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 week ago (13 children)

The Nazis were very much humans. We need to stop "othering" evil. The Nazis weren't some grand anomaly of people and Fascism works by prying on the same vulnerabilities that are present in all humans when it gets enabled through capitalist policies

Es waren nicht Hitler, Göring, Goebbels, Himmler oder wie die anderen heißen, die mich wegschleppen und prügeln ließen. Nein, es war der Schuster, der Nachbar, der Alte, der Milchmann, der Postbote, die Formlosen bekamen plötzlich Armbinden und eine Mütze auf dem Kopf und dann waren sie die Herrenrasse.

-Karel Stojka, Ausschwitz survivor

"It wasn't Hitler, Göring, Goebbels, Himmler or whatever the others were called who had me dragged away and beaten. No, it was the cobbler, the neighbor, the old man, the milkman, the letter carrier, the shapeless suddenly got armbands and a cap on their heads and then they were the master race."

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago

Keep it classy America

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago

“Hans, are we the bad guys?”

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago

No need for human rights when you're not viewed as a human 👍

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago

This is so fucked.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

Big bad pigs, afraid of children.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

The judges complicit in this fascist administration will be on the same list as the rest of the fascists

They will be prosecuted at the next Nuremberg Trials

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Not here. Please... Not anywhere, but please not here... This is the most disappointed I've ever been of my hometown.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Don't feel too bad, we're all disappointed in your hometown.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Good. God knows what they capable of hands-free. Assault rifles are nothing in these demigods.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Oh fuck this.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Fucking disgusting. But to be fair, with all the school shootings in the US I wouldn't trust children either /jk

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