Diligence Jones

People: Your signs are cute but what's your plan?????? What are you going to doooooo?

BIPOC Communities: We're organizing, mobilizing, and getting ready.

People: But I don't see you doing it. What are you *doinngggggg*? What's your plan?

This is what a lot of snooty fucking lefty bros/people sound like. Like, bro, wtf are YOU doing?

Folks demanding a plan like they want to copy someone else's homework.

Fuck, *do your own homework.*

Yesterday, I listened to a tiny trabajadora describe in Spanish the work she and the other trabajadores are doing to protect each other while ICE kidnaps them and decimates their families. She asked for people to join them and help them.

THAT'S THE FUCKING PLAN.

FUCK.
Ypipo, man.

FUCK! What are you looking for? Some Project 2025-like outline for a radically different social order? No one has time for that! FUCK.

Happy Sunday.

Oct 19 at 6:29pmWeb
Show threadDiligence JonesOct 19
That fucking thread fucking annoyed me, man.
Show threadDiligence JonesOct 19

This is one of the slides from the big Bay Get Ready community NonCooperation training some friends went to a couple weekends ago.

I would posit that this looks like A Plan. It's not the only Plan but it looks good for right now.

I would also posit that it's a hard plan. It's not a technical plan like Project 2025. It's a difficult adaptive challenge. And that's why folks will be like, This isn't a plan; this isn't going to work. They're looking for technical rubrics. Sorry, dude. Shit is hard.

Show threadDiligence JonesOct 19

Later in the presentation they talk about the role of marches/rallies/vigils = these are symbolic actions that *by themselves* won't trigger a u-turn. The energy and solidarity of these moments need to be built on with alternative infrastructures of taking care of one another AND mass noncooperation in many different forms.

I get the frustration folks have with costumery and drumming. I was that person, too. Like, in June I was that person.

But seeing it as ONE tool in a toolbelt helps me see a broader context.

Show threadJonOct 19

@DeliaChristina yeah really, 1000%. great thread.

@JulianOliver this is a good example of what I was talking about in terms of the kinds of strategic organizing that are happening here that might not be getting a lot of coverage internationally (and are certainly underrepresented on social media, including fedi).

Show threadDiligence JonesOct 19

@jdp23 @JulianOliver

Yeah, the incursion here in the Bay area is a little more subtle than in other cities. Chicago and Portland (and DC) have all the visuals.

Here, the action is happening in courtrooms, workplaces, homes, and in contracts - the massive plan to build a detention center in Dublin is a flashpoint and probably needs more visibility and people joining that effort to stop it.

I have no idea what the posture of city/county leadership is, yet. But I think there are groups doing quiet inside lobbying to get them to *not* cooperate with the feds. There must be.

Show threadJonOct 19

Things are similar in the Puget Sound area. And a lot of the organizing is the continuation of stuff that's been happening all along -- rapid response networks, pressuring cities and counties to limit cooperation, protesting the deportation flights from the Renton airport and the detention center in Tacoma.

@DeliaChristina @JulianOliver

Show threadJulian OliverOct 19

@jdp23 @DeliaChristina This is very encouraging, and indeed completely new to me. I greatly value the insights

Let it be said once again that I am one of millions with little but dreadful news from afar.

As such, reading of these decentralised and localised insurrections, ad hoc and organised resistance, is salve somewhat.

Show threadDavid FleetwoodOct 19
@JulianOliver @jdp23 @DeliaChristina In a mass surveillance state elucidating large plans merely guarantees they are undermined before they gain traction. We know the things that work, this isn't our first rodeo, people who don't "know the plan" need to make themselves available to be called on by those who are taking action rather than demanding a powerpoint.
Show threadZack SternOct 19

@DeliaChristina I wanted that event to be more actionable but they did a good job explaining to people like me how much community infrastructure we need. [edit: before we can do the most direct-action pushback.]

In the end the biggest action they urged is to get connected to local people on your block or neighborhood. That’s the core of the infrastructure we need to disrupt the fascist systems.

… and more to follow from them once we individuals build this up.

https://www.bayresistance.org

Bay Resistance

Bay Resistance
Show threadThe Crafty MissOct 20
@DeliaChristina The concept of yes and no coalitions with both being important is so helpful
Show threadMsMeropeOct 19

@DeliaChristina
One of the easiest things to do is find a mutual aid Society; most of those groups do have some kind of plan and volunteers can plug themselves in where they fit in.

In the Sacramento area, NorCal resist does things like fixing people’s brake lights so they don’t get pulled over for tickets, accompanying people to their immigration hearings, distributing food etc etc
NorCalResist.org

@NorCalResist

Show threadTyler CohenOct 19
@DeliaChristina 💯 it’s easy to complain and whine on SM, but that’s just bad air. [the following rant is not for you, but to those you are frustrated with] Shut up and Do Something—really, Anything. You aren’t able to do ICE protests? Well, the Food Banks are in crisis—volunteer, or organize a fundraiser for the Food Bank. There are so many ways to help, pick something and DO something.
Show threadNelsonOct 19

@DeliaChristina Re: "Some Project 2025-like outline", we had the Green New Deal and related plans inspired by it for sweeping progressive visions. I think we could have won a GND if COVID hadn't killed the momentum behind groups like Sunrise Movement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_New_Deal

A GND may not be sufficient to address the climate crisis, but it may be the best we could do to mobilize the populace given our current system of government and culture. More radical change requires a more radical people.

Green New Deal - Wikipedia

Show threadcwicseolforOct 19
@skyfaller @DeliaChristina I propose “a good starting point” supplant nearly all uses of the phrase “the best we can do.” It’s a good starting point! (And it would allow people to get their feet under them long enough to look around at what else can be done - imo, manufactured precarity is our biggest or second biggest enemy in getting people united, whether racism pulls ahead or not feels like it depends on the day.)
Show threadPatrickOct 19
@DeliaChristina I think it is time for state governors and like minded members of Congress to form a shadow government that uses the power residing in states to build an alternate government for the next three years. States have their own taxing power, and can tax billionaires and use the money to fund their own low income medical benefits until Medicaid is fully funded. They can restrict their police from aiding ICE. And they can provide state funded assistance to noncitizens
Show threadPatrickOct 19
@DeliaChristina California, Oregon, and Washington alone are a prosperous country with the constitutional power to pick up the money from the upper class that Trump is leaving on the table, and to use it to bridge the gap in social services, with laws, taxes, and budgets set to expire on December 31, 2028. A dollar is a dollar, whether federal or state.
Show threadViolet MadderOct 20

@patrick @DeliaChristina

This would be great, if the vast majority of them weren't already in the pockets of people building the WRONG kind of shadow government-- that is, technofascist corporate feudalism.

So we have to do it ourselves.

Show threadPatrickOct 20
@violetmadder @DeliaChristina I don’t think we can form a shadow government by ourselves. I think we have to do it together, with a substantial number of people who already hold office. But states already have a great deal of power, including taxing authority, to compensate for Trump‘s tax structure. The Trump administration policy is to reduce the economic authority of government in relation to the authority of corporations. States can expand their own authority.
Show threadPatrickOct 20
@violetmadder @DeliaChristina I do not think that Trump‘s economic people really care about his social policies. They’re in it for the money, less taxes for corporations, protectionist economic policies, theft and extraction of publicly owned natural resources for pennies on the dollar. But social policies like abortion, immigration, diversity, and trans issues are just red flags to manipulate voters. Follow the shift of obscene wealth. Not the red flags.
Show threadJargogglesOct 19
@DeliaChristina
A lot of people want a plan that doesn't involve them having to talk to their neighbors.
Show threadMatty RosesOct 19

@DeliaChristina seems Project 2025 is working - so yes, figuring out What Is To Be Done might be a very good use of time.

As for the left - you don't have to agree with us, but from general strike to vanguard revolution to library extension, different factions have been quite open about their plans and strategies. Because they have them.

Show threadLudwig VielfrassOct 19
@DeliaChristina what am I doing? Like, bro, have you ever HEARD of OPSEC?
Show threadEm & future cats 🇺🇦🐈🏳️‍🌈Oct 19
@DeliaChristina I had a great speaker at my No kings rally yesterday. They pointed out the fact that it’s not just about getting rid of trump, but of stuff that “is a problem with this country and has been for quite some time” the “inequality of wealth and prosperity in a country that is the wealthiest in the world” and that we have “plenty of work to do and actions we can take to combat this” which he proceeded to detail in his speech.
Show threadEm & future cats 🇺🇦🐈🏳️‍🌈Oct 19
@DeliaChristina Contacting representatives, help your neighbors, vote in every election for every section of local state and federal government, vote in your primaries, get in touch with your local organizations be it food pantries, libraries or grassroots movements. The list goes on…
So yeah I get it when you feel frustrated when people ask “but whats your plan?”
Because I feel that frustration 💯 with these doubters
Show threadEm & future cats 🇺🇦🐈🏳️‍🌈Oct 19
@DeliaChristina Ooohh here’s a great retort, when we were “going to land a man on the moon” we literally had no bloody idea how we were going to do that , except the fact that “we were going to do it” ‼️
How’s that for a small history lesson?😹
Show threadIntrospectionOct 19
@DeliaChristina freedom to Yuri Detochkin!
Show threadViolet MadderOct 20

@DeliaChristina

People who ask what the plan is, either have 0 belief that any plan is possible and want to insult and undermine any attempts, OR, they want to know if you're familiar with the various strategies that are available.

The first kind is belligerent and snide, and will shoot down whatever answers they get while yelling the same demanding questions over and over again. The second kind move on very quickly from the question to offering examples, feedback, and suggestions. If they're burnt out they may not be as friendly about it as they should be, but still.

Show threadTed JohnsonOct 20
@DeliaChristina Have you followed recent events in Madagascar? The Plan was to show up -- sustained direct action. The klepto president sent in the military. The military sided with the people. The president and his crew grabbed their bug-out bags and bugged out to parts unknown. Last week! #GenZMadagascar