“They do not deserve to be re-elected and they must be defeated,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders.

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    Yeah. The ballot box method is over guys. Any vote that’s even close is gonna be “guarded” by ICE agents. They’re about to hire every racist Trump supporter in every state with their budget. This is it. We are past the Rubicon and I can’t even see it when I look back at the horizon.

    This administration is not worried about votes.

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    yea, i’m pretty sure that whole “vote them out” ship sailed a long time ago. not only have fascists infiltrated and wrecked pretty much every board of elections that had any hint of purple, but way too many millions of people are cheering and celebrating their new fascist authoritarian police state

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      The only way out of this for the US is if they all get the Luigi special or at least enough of them so the others shit themselves when they go outsides

      Sure Taco tuesday want a civil war but the choixe here is waiting for it to happen to you or to start it and maybe taking them by surprise a little because it’s going to happen no matter what

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        resistance doesn’t have to mean direct confrontation. sugar in gas tanks, slashed tires, acts of vandalism–pretty much anything that disrupts or slows them down counts.

        illegal? maybe. but no more so than what they’re doing to us.

        edit: BTW, fascists will instantly label any of these minor acts of defiance as “terrorism”-- don’t ever let them plant that seed of propaganda. “terrorism” is acts against the people. “resistance” is acts against tyranny.

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          Absolutely. ICE should not feel safe getting out of their vans. Especially in Blue cities.

          In Seattle one thing we’ve been doing is trashing the exit of the ice facility with those green scooters. Blocks their vehicles. Every little bit helps.

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          For now sure but the way i see it soon they will go full speed with it and death will be the sentence for most ( they still need slave for the farm and such but Judge dredd style but with ICE for the others ) for anybody they don’t like

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            tbh i’ll be surprised if any kind of movement actually takes off. i think we’re just fucked, and it’s only a matter of time

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              Same, i know people are fearful abouth doing something but fear won’t stop Palanthir AI sending a death squad taking care of them because they found a tweet saying fuck trump in 2016

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                yep. they’re already vanishing immigrants and citizens. the fear will only increase when people start disappearing only because they’re opposed to fascism

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                  It’s nothing for now but when all the process ( except the killing or maybe drone ? ) will be made automatic by AI with no supervision on who they flag it’s going to be too late to start the fight people need to be ready way before that

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          I’ve still yet to see any targets for even that type of resistance in my community. Feel so worthless not being able to take action.

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      As I said before in another thread. Voting is over. If these monster’s worried about elections they wouldn’t have supported this bill.

      I truly believe now that all electronic voting machines are rigged. Only way we every have free and democratic elections is if we have paper back ups and rank choice voting. I now believe that Mitch McConnell and Lindsay Graham rigged their own elections. And hopefully we are going find out in a lawsuit that Elon Musk rigged the machines to help Trump win.

      So Sanders unfortunately it’s over there only way to turn us around and it isn’t voting.

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      Sanders is old enough to remember previous fascist regimes, so I’m surprised he still seems to believe what he’s saying.

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        if hope is the only thing i have left when if i reach that age, then that’s what i’ll have. wish i had some of that right now

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          Don’t get me wrong, Sanders is one of the few sane politicians left in the US, but democrats need to start thinking outside of the box. Relying on the next election for change just seems a little naive.

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      Maybe, but only under tight voter control by the American GeStaPo. Just don’t tick the wrong box, or you’ll end up in south America.

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    I read that they must pay a price at the bullet box and got excited for a moment. Voting them out, really? They just cemented their power, why would they allow peaking voting to get in the way of that?

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    That’s one of the boxes we could use, but I think it hasn’t worked. There’s 2 more, and I don’t have a lot of faith in the jury box in this system.

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    If there will be a ballot box in Nazi America. One where you can actually vote.

    Given the power and budget given to the New American GeStaPo, I doubt there will be anything like free and fair votes in the near future.

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    He’s CORRECT! The ONLY Course of Action for the Lawmakers who just MURDERED MILLIONS OF AMERICANS and CONTINUES BREAKING THE LAW is to Wait until we can TRY to Vote them Out Legally and Safely! That’s the ONLY thing we can do and if ANYONE suggests Something REMOTELY Different or Violent they’re a PAID BOT!