cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/31008111
Ok so Trump has been elected president. I honestly don’t care whether it is the fault of the people that are constantly bickering online or the DNC platform.
To me all that matters is what are you going to do next.
Trump has outlined a plan, Agenda 47, and is probably in cahoots with the people that made Project 2025. They have spelled out every horrible thing they are going to do.
How are you individually planning to help stop/curtail these efforts?
Sabotaging oil rigs, stopping the destruction of abortion clinics, DIY medicine, guerilla gardening, etc.
The actions don’t have to be big, but we are currently in the position that the people who lived under Hitler went through can we please not take this sitting down.
- Donate to causes you believe in. Organizations like the ACLU will continue to fight tooth and nail against each unlawful policy.
- Volunteer for things you believe in
- Use your constitutional right to protest
- Stock up on supplies for a month
- Pack a bugout bag in case things get too out of hand and have an escape plan.
Take solace that 60 million people in this country, at a minimum, did not support this administration. That will be more present in the cities, and there are a lot of cities in this country.
We have power. We have voice. The federal government couldn’t take Afghanistan with 20 years of trying. The same applies here so long as we realize our potential and resist.
Disclaimer: I’m not American.
My plan is to cooperate with a local non-profit and start supplying dirt cheap drones to Ukrainians, since they’ll be needing more if ¹ US assistance gets cut by Trump. The cooperation has actually started since we didn’t wait for things to hit the fan. I hope we’ll pick up speed. Product development is terribly, nerve-stretchingly slow.
¹ more likely “when”, not “if”
For some reason, I suspect that many people have made a similar decision in Europe recently. Visited a civil engineering company recently. Saw engineers fitting a precise replica of a Browning 12.7 mm machine gun into something. Didn’t ask what it was - had no need to know - obviously some robotic system. It’s kind of sad that we’re undergoing a rush of militarization, but when the biggest member of an alliance starts to go haywire and there’s a conquering dictatorship next door, it’s pretty much the only thing that can be done to change the outcome.
Resisting Trump presidency is too short sighted.
We need fundamental change in how our elected officials relate to the concerns of their constituents.
Studies have shown that public opinion actually has statistically no impact at the federal level. That is, unless you have the money to afford a lobbyist.
If money and the concerns of the wealthy are all they care about, we should do what we can to limit the supply.
The US economy runs on consumption. That’s where we have leverage.
We should organize a general consumption strike. Buy what you and your family need to survive and that’s it. Cancel your Amazon, cancel your Netflix, buy locally in cash, buy second hand.
It wouldn’t take as many of us as you might think to make our presence felt.
This will certainly cause hardship for some (I myself work in retail) but the pain y inevitably at this point it might as well be productive.
Hit them where it hurts.
Small things you can do:
Document things. Download speeches and clips, save articles, pictures, record your own videos and photos. Keep your receipts, build a weather station, log the effects of this administration on yourself locally. Write a journal. Keep it all offline and be discreet about it. When they try to distance themselves from the inevitable fallout, you can share your own evidence, your own story, and throw it right back in their smug faces.
Take upward flowing money out of the economy any way you can. Repair, reuse, rebuild, swap, share, create, grow, buy local, take on a roommate, do anything you can to avoid pumping cash into the orphan killing, billionare making, machine. Stop feeding Google/Amazon/Meta clicks and advertising dollars. Get a used laptop. Put Linux on it. Get VPN incorporated in a country that doesn’t give a fuck about the US and pirate media. Better yet, make your own media and give it away. Starve the people who will profit off this administration and the chaos it’ll create as much as you can.
Practice opsec. Limit your online profile. Keep location services off. Don’t talk about how you can’t agree with Trump’s policies because the trans kid next door is a good person. Don’t tell people a trans kid lives next door to you. Get a dumb phone or use a privacy focused OS on your smart phone. You can learn how to install a custom ROM, I have faith in you. Help others do the same, make it harder for them to dox people and reduce the data they have to target propaganda and manipulative media with.
If you really want the location services and you’re on a degoogled OS, you can self host some location services: https://www.traccar.org/.
I’m not American, but for basic essentials, creating an online local network seems like a good idea to me. You could use it to share free clothes, food, seeds, and so on, and perhaps help run or boost local projects. The rich absolutely hate trading or gifting, so that makes it even better.
I think a huge one is also encouraging friends and family onto platforms and apps/programs that don’t sell your data. That way, you have a safe place to chat and organize without the government watching and collecting info, and without algorithms trying to bury movements.
Use trusted encrypted platforms for important chats.