So, ICE is getting $75 billion in funding in this spending bill.
There's a directive to build a ton of new private prisons which are effectively concentration camps. Actually let's remove the "effectively". They ARE concentration camps, under nearly any definition of that term.
So why do people keep getting swept up for nearly no reason whatsoever? It's about quotas. 🧵
When you have a system like this, what we are looking at is a well funded set of slots and quotas, a promise of numbers.
And you know what happens with this. You know what it's like for you or someone else to get pulled over for a bullshit speeding ticket at the end of the month. The cop has been given a quota to fill. They'll be in trouble if they don't fill it. They *have to find* people who are in trouble, or *they'll* be in trouble. 🧵
We are looking at maybe the most well funded goon squad / gestapo / secret police style system of all time. They've made the spaces for it, they have the directive to fill them.
Who's going in the prisons? Who is "breaking the rules", including under the new rules they're setting up?
Is it you?
Is it someone you love?
Is it someone you don't know directly, but someone you know indirectly?
This is where things are going. That's what's at stake.
I'm well aware of a host of nightmares ready to be loosed upon our dying world by the christian nationalist oil capitalists.
The question really is what are effective strategies to resist?
There's the easy stuff like contact congress or protest, but after those fail, what's next?
Flee the country?
Boycott big tech and the oil industry?
Switch to the untaxable underground economy?
Disappear into the wilderness or forgotten warrens of cities and go off grid?
Take over small towns and turn them into independent city/states?
Engage in direct economic or military sabotage?
If a countries economy breaks, the central government's ability to project power declines. Running armies and keeping the loyalty of secret police does require resources.
@alienghic @cwebber
We do seem to be at a point where law and legal means can, in fact, be said to have decisively failed.
IMO, that means this is a good time to break out the illegal nonviolent steps, like general strikes. After all, what's legal or not doesn't matter anymore at this point anyway.
Getting all of the community organizing necessary to make that happen will be very hard.
https://newrepublic.com/article/193370/general-strike-trump-musk-sara-nelson-labor-unions
How would you deliver food and water if the stores are closed?
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