• teslasaur@lemmy.world
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    1. Vote locally

    2. Run locally

    If you can rally people behind a cause, go for it.

    Other than that. Nothing really. Try to spend money with those that align with your values.

    Unrelated, but likely more important. Donate to charity, or help the homeless in your own community.

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    When the government is powerful enough to cause genocides, that’s a problem. It’s far easier to just not give your money to a business that engages in such practices.

    Not giving money to your government, however, is considered tax evasion.

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    leave the country. You are paying taxes, purchasing goods and services, raising families, and just being here enables the genocide machine to continue churning. We have no representation here. It’s all performative. But take their money away and oh boy do they notice that.

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    Vote with your wallet. Money is the only thing that matters to the people in charge here

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    Unless you’re a billionaire or willing to go full Player 2, there’s nothing you can do on a macro scale.

    You can, in your little slice of the world, do good things. When ICE asks you if you’ve seen someone, you tell them you haven’t. If you’re walking past a business getting raided and see a brown person, you tell them to turn around and get away. If you run a school and ICE shows up, you stand up for the kids they’re trying to kidnap. If you see ICE kidnapping someone, at minimum, film and post it. If there’s a group of people willing to physically intervene, join them.

    That’s it.

    Voting doesn’t solve this because all Democrats have to offer is strongly-worded letters, and Donald uses those letters to wipe Elon Musk’s ass. Their choice was aiding and abetting fascism or getting richer, and they chose the money.

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    Next election vote EVERYONE OUT. No Republicans (MAGA) should be left in Congress to make sure they give a hell to Trump and force him to quit (almost near impossible) but that’s the only way

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    On an individual level one should also start getting fit and learning basic defensr/boxing.

    E: To be clear I am not saying we should start fights, but fitness is overall useful and healthy. Being able to defend oneself is important to confidently defuse a situation too.

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      Fuck I’ll say that. The best thing for everybody is if Nazis are physically afraid to walk the streets.

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        Bold of you to assume they walk anywhere. This is America not communist China with public sidewalks and transit.

        /s