Ben WerdmullerWhat ICE is doing in US airports today, it will be doing at US polling places in November. These photos aren’t funny or incongruous; they should be giving us nightmares. This has to end now.
stony kark
🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄)@stonykark I agree, but that's a lot easier to say than to do.
And folx *are* doing something. Millions of us are protesting, aiding the communities that ICE is attacking, posting to keep the stories alive, donating to causes that are fighting our government, doing mutual aid, filming and tracking ICE, voting, and a million other ways of resisting.
Everyone has a different threshold for "well, I guess this is worth dying for now". Usually that threshold is when they have no other option left.
@stonykark what are you doing to help?
I've voted against this administration at every step, I'm a member of multiple activist groups, I host community events, hand out defense whistles and active reporter instructions, shut down fascist websites, admin/moderate two Fedi communities, do suicide-prevention outreach, teach folx about security and data privacy, and still drag myself out of bed to toot about cats and post my nudes for yall's entertainment.
Saying "you need to do more" to folx suffering under a dictatorship is even less useful than standing by watching it.
@alice @ben @msbw I live in the oil rich part of canada so the things I've done to help (left tech, became a paramedic, got my gun license) are going to be different from what you need to do. I need to protect my community from america, whereas you need to overthrow your government and hang every nazi bastard. I tried just watching, it ate me up inside for years. Doing things is absolutely fucking terrifying, but for me it's a little less scary to get my hands dirty.