Use the four boxes of liberty
Here are concrete steps we can take to combat the regime with our last non-violent pathways (the titles below expand if you click them).
Learn First Aid! ⛑️
The future us likely to be violent, and It extremely important to have the skills to be able to keep yourself and others alive if they get hurt. You can never have too many medics.
Tacticool Girlfriend provides a great introduction to building a personal first aid kit, called an IFAK, which can deal with things like bullet wounds and other serious bleeding wounds. I also want to emphasize her recommendation of only buying medical gear from reputable sources (not Amazon!), such as North American Rescue to avoid fakes that could cost you your life.
But you’ll need to learn how to use that equipment, too. The best resource for that is to take a local Stop The Bleed class, which are pretty widely available in most places. They may cost a small fee, but can also sometimes be free. Alternatively, if you cannot access a local class, this video by PrepMedic will give you a solid understanding of how to use Tourniquets and Gauze for wound packing.
Injuries are less harmful if they are tended to early. Learning first aid can help conserve resources when healthcare becomes unaffordable. Having several medics in case of harm by police is an extremely powerful morale booster during a protest that may become a police riot. When you become comfortable with the basics of first aid, riot medicine is the next suggested step.
Establish or join local Mutual Aid networks ✊
If you haven’t already, get to know your neighbors. Mutual aid is a willingness to support and grow your community. This can include informal networks through friends, tenant/renter organizations, solidarity groups, and industrial unions.
These are groups using direct action to solve each other’s problems. Building strong communities makes it difficult for fascism to take root. The actions of the government are going to hit every community hard, and the ones who build trust in each other and work together are most likely to survive. We’ve been building a list of resources in [email protected] to help you on your way. Also check out this handy guide to find existing groups in your area.
This isn’t only for your own community protection. Your ability to organize today will change the political landscape tomorrow. When revolution occurs, the social organizations that show the greatest resilience through the regime are the ones typically calling the shots when the dust settles. When it comes to elections, get out the vote drives are useless if most of the voters are fascists. At some point, you have to do grassroots political education if you don’t want fascist candidates winning elections. Mutual aid networks are excellent forums not only for teaching each other good political ideas, but demonstrating them in practice.
Join a Union and Prepare for a General Strike! 💪
The most effective non-violent action we can take is preparing and organizing for a General Strike.
The country would be brought to its knees if suddenly deprived of profit and labor. That tactic was extremely effective in Chile in 2019, and had they not fallen for the trick of liberal reform, they would’ve had a successful revolution on their hands with virtually no bloodshed.
If you aren’t in a union (or even if you are, it’s worth dual-carding), consider joining the IWW to unionize your workplace (bonus: you’ll get higher wages, better benefits, and more time off if you succeed!) to strengthen a general strike if we manage to enact one, as most unions have a strike fund that can supplement your income during a general strike to make it more financially bearable (you should also save as much money as you can reasonably do, so it can also be used to keep yourself afloat during a strike).
And for our international friends, you should join one as well, as fascism is gaining momentum globally. If your country isn’t listed below, just contact the IWW directly in the link above, and they’ll help you set up a new local branch.
Adopt Security Culture and Digital Camouflage 🛡️
Sometimes benign seeming efforts can turn into unexpected personal data collecting traps. Like an obscure website for exchanging contact info with other students turning into a global ad-tech surveillance network (Facebook), or innocent seeming online personality tests being use to harvest character profiles. Even Etsy, Reddit, Tinder, and Duolingo are feeding information to US Government Agencies like ICE.
Security culture is commonly used to describe the general awareness of such potential traps and how it can affect groups or entire communities. This goes beyond mere individual privacy efforts, as without joint efforts these often fail to work.
Especially in activist circles, security culture is paramount. For opsec reasons not everyone in the group might be aware of what clandestine efforts others are involved in, but with a general security culture many potential data leaks can be avoided.
Movements are made by the volume of their participants, and the easier and less dangerous it is to participate, the more people will get involved. As more people get involved, individual involvement becomes even less dangerous, creating a virtuous cycle.
We’ll start it off with some General Advice:
- Mentally wall off personal uniquely identifying info from your online presence, actively build a habit of opsec so that withholding information is your default mental state
- Be careful about who you meet online
- Use different, unrelated usernames, passwords & emails for every account. And try not to connect to those accounts with your real IP address (use Tor or a VPN)
- Be mindful that anything done online leaves a trail
- agents provocateurs may seek to find patsies willing to perform an ill-advised illegal activity in order to legitimize police repression. If someone is trying to pressure you, especially if you don’t have a long and proven history with them, be extremely wary.
For a full guide on what encrypted communications platforms to use, and how to stay off the radar, read the Digital Camouflage section within the Monthly Meta post here (you’ll need to scroll down. I’d add it here, but it won’t fit in this comment).
At this point, it may be advisable to equip yourself with more serious equipment if you haven’t already if all else fails. Tacticool girlfriend has good videos for beginners in that area on her channel, as does the YouTube channel Black Flag Civilian.
Birthstrike - stop reproducing until the bullshit stops. They constantly whine and cry about falling birth rates because it is their Achilles’ heel.
Unlike a labor strike, we can keep this up for as long as we need to. Indeed, it is actually beneficial in the short term which makes it an easy “sell” to people in economically precarious situations. It also provides some level of mitigation to your own personal situation if conditions further deteriorate.
In contrast to street protests, it avoids conflict and keeps people away from danger. It doesn’t require missing work, risking injury, or facing detainment.
The downside is that it is a very slow sort of strike that won’t become apparent for several months. It’s more of a long term strategy and won’t provide any immediate relief.
Wouldn’t ensuring leftists aren’t parents but conservative are just work to push the overton window in the future?
Unless the plan is to try and outbreed conservatives, leftists will need a different strategy to avoid being outnumbered.
Parenting is very resource intensive, both in time and material resources, and is thus an inefficient means of transmitting ideologies. You could likely use that time and resources for education and outreach, influencing a much wider audience.
I mean you could adopt and it doesn’t increase the population any further. And you get to save a child from having to live a life as an orphan. Win win?
Until they start doing a Gilead
No strategy is perfect, but even places like Russia and China have floundered in bringing up fertility rates.
The irony is that the historically effective way to manage below-replacement rates is via immigration. But that’s sort of the crux of the post.
If I wrote out the actual correct answer here, the FBI would open a new file on me.
Last file got too big to handle?
It’s not the only thing about me that’s too big to handle! Heeeeyo
Your head?
But it’s NOT illegal to just say “with a mortar launcher” because it’s definitely an incomplete sentence, right?
RIP, Trevor. :(
We know their crimes. They proudly commit them in the open. We know what they’ve done. Why are we arguing trying them when they all can’t possibly be tried in time. They are already at civil war with us. The answer is obvious.
But that answer can’t be said in full, otherwise we’d be put on FBI’s Most Wanted list. Yet it’s NOT illegal to just say “with a mortar launcher” because it’s an incomplete sentence.
RIP Trevor Moore - shine on and fly high, local sexpot
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Turn off lemmy and talk irl lol.
Hi FBI 👀
Hang them. Simple… Or go the old French way.
The French do have a flair for the dramatic, which is exactly how fascists operate. Might as well match their drama for the solution.
Y’all don’t need to obey what Trump says.
He has an arrest warrant on him, coming from the International Common Law Court of Justice.
Proof is here: https://murderbydecree.com/2026/01/16/a-public-indictment-of-donald-j-trump/
Edit: There apparently is a way this was done. There was a Declaration of Independence done in 22 states, and these are them:
Massachusetts, Vermont, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Missouri, West Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Texas, Kansas, South Dakota, Arizona, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, and California, and the District of Columbia
Proof is here: https://murderbydecree.com/2026/01/20/a-revolution-begins-in-america/
I really hope Kentucky follows suit. Also, is that Declaration serious? Is the people running the website anarchists or something?
Yes, it’s a serious declaration, because while the guy behind the site is Canadian (he actually started a republic in 2015), he does keep up with international happenings, particularly in America and Britain from what I was able to gather.
We won’t get that in the “alternative” media and mainstream media, because they’re tied to the Roman Catholic Church and Jesuit Order.
Is he an anarchist?
That I’m not sure about. He has, however, gotten the RCC in trouble under common law through the specialized court I mentioned earlier (as common law trumps both legal and cannon law [yes, the trump pun was intentional]).
Well, red voters need to stop voting red this election. That’s the only way we have to hold our elected officials accountable.
How are we able to get Trump voters to not vote Republican in the midterms and 2028 elections?
They need to recognize there is a problem and want to change it.
That won’t happen until they are personally affected.
That’s the single consistent trigger point for every Republican that turns against the party of you’ve been paying attention.
They have to be directly affected … they have to feel it themselves. They are incapable of feeling empathy for others, that’s why they have the perspective they have and don’t do anything about obvious issues. They don’t think they are issues because it’s affecting the others.
I have a lot of Republican family members who are personally affected and still Republican. They don’t see any alternative. You need to remember why we got here: our party has done nothing for the past 20 years but fail. Fail to prevent the collapse of the middle class, fail to create a comprehensive re-training scheme, fail to address the consequential homelessness and drug addiction epidemic, fail to lift the south out of poverty, fail to create a rational healthcare system, fail to stop the environment from getting worse, fail to govern effectively and bring the national debt into line, bowed down to trillionaire oligarchs instead of stopping them. I could keep going. I say this with full acknowledgement that Joe Biden had the most positive direct impact on my life and family of any president in my lifetime. I say this with full acknowledgement that the republicans also failed. But when all people hear is that we can’t help them, people will turn to ANYONE saying they can help.
Firehose of Counter-Propaganda.
You might not convince them to vote blue, but you can LARP as a right-winger that’s disillusioned with the right and say shit like “both sides are the same” to discourage them from voting.
Simultaneously, you encourage people left-of-center to go out and vote.
Are you saying one should pose as a Trump voter who wants to NOT vote for Trump just to convince Trump voters to NOT do so?
You seems so sure that midterms will happen
It’s not possible for it to not happen. Even if every republican area was complicit, so that they only had to attack democratic cities, they simply cannot attack every place in the country all at once. Also, most authoritarian governments still have elections. They just engage in election fraud, which again, he can’t do in every single place.
Also, most authoritarian governments still have elections.
Yup. Russia had elections during its last cycle. The outcome may or may not have been pre-determined.
Republicans in Ohio, Missouri, West Virginia, Georgia, Texas, Kansas, South Dakota, and Nevada have other plans. They declared independence from the Trump enterprise recently.
Proof of it is here: https://murderbydecree.com/2026/01/20/a-revolution-begins-in-america/
