#hey're interfering with my medical care and my legal rights and my safety and my ability to live my life!

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#im just reblogging so the conversation continues#i think like. bullying the rich honestly is a good approach (best done by white men though - so they don't get attacked by arrest)#like Redditors blocking X just because they hate musk is a nazi? That's a good strategy because it means less traffic to musks site and#silencing musks voice. i'd also say regular people making ALTERNATIVE social media they ACTUALLY all migrate to is a decent strategy#Truth Social by Trump? was never a success.#so if Meta and Twitter were LEFT in such large numbers that the sites were ghost towns? then free speech would be spread more in actually#free-er enviornments. the next step of course is the rich would try to buy the new sites or ban them. #and it would be the normal people who made it's job to stick to their guns and NOT sell. and make a new site if their site gets banned.#also calling rich people directly and threatening them tbh. but again i think only white men should be doing this as they'll be less likely#to be arrested. at least if it's a threat but not ever carried out#(whereas a white woman just said deny depose and she is now facing charges. even tho she didnt actually hurt anyone or act in any way)#i think in person some of the best ways to help is SCHOOL BOARDS AND CITY COUNCIL MEETINGS#bug and annoy the shit out of local policians who cannot avoid you. make your voice louder than the conservative people pushing trans#attacks and book bans and increasing police.#i think the college kids directly protesting AT BOARD MEETINGS was very effective. so effective the colleges wanted to expell them because#those board members FELT how upset people were and wanted to avoid it.#i think the best strategies will be to directly affect the lives of the people effecting policy.#whether that's bullying rich people online. in their phones. showing up to every local govt meeting and make sure#your govt knows you DO care and will expect them to care or they'll never escape hearing u

I think this is exactly the kind of thing we need to be considering, emphasis mine.

Impact politician's lives directly. Make their neighbors hate them. Make their commute difficult. Make their job a constant hassle. Make it unpleasant to be caught even slightly enabling fascism. Make it PERSONAL.

Would really like to hear more people talking about how to effectively protest in 2025. Standing in a public area holding signs is ineffective. Public shaming only works when your opponents have any shame (apologies to Stokely Carmichael) so what do we do?

Cities are blue overall. So is disrupting cities, blocking traffic, really going to be effective? It just becomes images on the news that people can dismiss as "city problems". Do we take protests somewhere else? Target city halls across the country in smaller communities to try to light a fire? Take it to people's houses? Protesting the Supreme Court justices at home seemed to freak everyone out quite a bit, is that the way to go?

The only way to hurt plutocrats is to hit them right in the money, so how do we do that effectively? I'm not convinced boycotts do anything? So what would actually hurt them?

I don't know if these discussions are happening in private, which would make sense but is frustrating for people who'd like to get involved, or if they're just not happening.