Distributed as in non centralized. Many people feel like there is nothing they can do to contribute to meaningful change, especially with how spread out Americans are, but surely there has got to be something.
Using the trend of blocking traffic as an example, I think a coordinated effort to not just block a highway in one city, but to block state routes and other arteries in many places would be more effective. Instead of one city having bad traffic for a day, it would be many towns and it would be harder to dismiss as a local problem if people across the states are engaging.
If every blue state stopped paying federal taxes simultaneously they’d be fucked. Tax season isn’t for another sixish months, just saying.
It has to be the employees not the state because companies withhold it and remit directly to the IRS. Not saying you should do this, but if you increase your
withholdingsexemptions then it won’t go to the IRS. Though you will owe it in April and may have to pay penalties for underwitholding.Constituents would have to unite and convince their house/senate members to repeal the 16th amendment. Probably would be a ton of grassroots support from both sides actually cause everyone hates taxes, and the voters in poor red states would be too ignorant to realize their state would get hosed.
But just overturning the amendment wouldn’t be enough. There’d need to be an alternative amendment related to taxation to specifically shift more responsibility to states.
Something I liked about the response to LA was people showing up at hotels where occupiers were staying and driving them out. There’s a sort of group denunciation happening, and then also it just makes it hard to do the work - they don’t have enough sleep, they have to travel farther to the intended area of action.
What about other ways to foul logistics? And what are other ways to shame/demoralize people supporting the regime? Totalitarians require everyday people to carry out their orders. The more people we peel away or disillusion the less control a totalitarian can exert.
We need a community dedicated to these questions.
The fact that top comments on Lemmy, a sophisticated platform, still don’t provide much leverage is a little worrying. I hope we can find a collective way to raise awareness in a news blind world. Shows how far the system has worked to block out civil protest moving markers anymore. My hope is that organized non-violent marches and banners becomes so prevalent that it’s impossible to ignore. Like how MAGA got its image annoyingly all over rural America.
Step 1. Enter the main office of a corporation en masse
Step 2. Refuse to leaveNot against the idea in spirit, but that’s not distributed and not feasible for many people who live far from corporate HQs.
Eh? Corporate HQs are all in city centres, and the vast majority of people live in cities…
I have been fantasizing about figuring out where epstien is buried, digging his evil ass up and catapulting his corpse onto the white house lawn.
That would force them to release the files. It is so outrageous that it would get national attention, and people would support it because RELEASE THE FUCKING EPSTIEN FILES.
I think this would actually have the opposite effect. It’s essentially the Dead Cat Strategy. That’s a political tactic where if you’re losing an argument and can’t see a way to turn it around, just throw a dead cat on the table. Now everyone is suddenly talking about the dead cat, instead of the argument you were losing. It refers to when a politician is losing a debate, so they just start making outrageous statements to grab attention and divert the debate away from the argument.
Epstein’s body would be a dead cat, as news would divert towards covering that instead of covering the files.
So like, all of 2025 so far.
Filling empty beer bottles with hand sanitizer. Pass them out at marches so people don’t get sick.
With a cloth coming out the top to wipe your hands? And a lighter to keep warm?
Exactly. Wouldn’t want to catch cold.
Everyone, DRIVE FUCKING SLOW.
“C’mon, that’ll just piss myself off.” Do you think the French living under nazi occupation wouldn’t love to dangle their bumper in front of every German driver that comes along?
Do 58 in a 65.
Do 41 in a 45.Don’t worry, because when I see you on the road driving slow, I’ll join you for solidarity. I’ll keep a safe distance behind, just attempting to
navigate international waters in the South China Seadrive as slow as we legally fucking want.Stick to the rule of “Stay to the right”. Don’t break traffic laws. Provide no incriminating behavior beyond “slower than normal”.
Let the rest of the bastards deal with it. Those bastards, whose privilege blesses them with the worst part of their day being “shitty traffic,” who then arrive to the office and bitch about it to the other old ladies who share that same privilege, ALL OF WHOM proceeded to wax poetic about the nostalgia of their gun-laden childhoods the morning after another elementary classroom was shot up, yet who didn’t acknowledge THE SHOOTING amongst each other.
Well tjst was a trip…
If you make a mistake on your taxes you can always file a correction later.
Make friends with random people, especially conservatives.
Make lots of money, which can be used for many useful things.
Buy real estate in your communtity.
Start a business in your community.
Develop personal relationships with your elected officials or other powerful people.
Get elected to positions of power, even if just a school board member or neighborhood council representitive.
Blocking traffic will only turn people away at best and get you run over at worst.
Right, that was just an example of things anyone with a couple friends could do locally that would still accumulate at scale.
