If you have any spare time, even half an hour here or there, go to protests. Connect with like-minded folks.

Any given act of protest isn’t enough to save the country. But multiple acts building on each other will. It’s about continuing to apply pressure, one step at a time, until the fascist regime topples.

Why bother with AI for that? https://black.readthedocs.io/en/stable/index.html

Here’s the relevant quote from that link: “It’s true that overall turnout fell in much of the country, but in the battleground states that actually decided the presidential election, turnout was roughly where it was from four years ago. And it’s clear as day that a bunch of people changed their minds.”

In swing States (where the election was decided), voter turnout was almost the same in 2024 as in the last presidential election. So you can stop repeating the debunked claim that voters who “stayed home” are to blame for Trump’s victory.

Do you need me to hand-hold you all the way to a protest? Okay, here’s how it works:

1. Find a local protest organization in your area. If you have trouble doing that, check out https://indivisible.org/ which lists events from local groups around the country.
2. Find an event that sounds like something you might want to attend.
3. Make a sign. Go to the event. Protest.

Don’t like that idea? Fine. Then find a way to resist that better suits you. But whining on the internet that “there’s nothing that can be done, we are fucked” doesn’t accomplish anything. Part of the goal of this administration is to create an air of inevitability around their gathering power so that people obey in advance. It makes it a whole lot easier for them to be fascists if they don’t have to fight for every scrap of fascism along the way. Don’t let them do that. Don’t obey in advance.

See elsewhere in the comments on this post. The judge can effectively deputize someone other than a Marshall if necessary.

If you think that list of ways to resist are “nothing,” then there’s nothing more I can tell you. Good luck with your sitting around and waiting for violent revolution.

And I never said I was a pacifist. I said it takes multiple types of resistance to effectively counter fascism.

No single thing is going to fix this. It’s going to take a concerted effort of protests and economic boycotts and judges doing their job and elected officials doing their job and the fucking media doing their job and public sentiment souring further on Trump and people refusing to follow unlawful orders and yes maybe even a little direct action. Not all of it is going to work and not all of it has to work. My only point here is we can’t just think there’s a single silver bullet (pun intended) because that breeds inaction for all other forms of resistance. We each need to find a way to resist and do that instead of waiting for somebody who isn’t coming to save the day.

Both. I just think the “oh well we must immediately escalate to bloodshed” people are only serving to worsen the situation because it skips over all the other legitimate ways we have of fighting back, like protest and the courts. Ways that a bigger portion of the populace is willing to participate in (currently). And right now we need everyone who’s reasonable resisting in any way they can.

And let me know when you second amendment types actually do something. 👍

Since when is a judge’s verbal order not legally binding?

With respect, I don’t think you’re very well-learned in history if you don’t see where this slippery slope leads for all of us.

Then again, maybe you’re not arguing here in good faith and you’re just a troll.

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What are you on about?

• https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/supreme-court-john-roberts-trump-constitutional-crisis-rcna196940
• https://time.com/7268948/deportation-surgeon-constitutional-crisis/
• https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-latest-deportation-venezuelans-sets-up-potential-constitutional-clash-2025-03-17/
• https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/17/politics/constitutional-crisis-courts-trump-executive-power-what-matters/index.html
• https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/us/politics/trump-constitutional-crisis.html

EDIT: Oh and just today…

• https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/us/politics/trump-deportations-constitutional-crisis-impeachment.html

You guys are maybe being a little hasty… Many other members of the Trump administration can get forcibly hauled into court even if Trump has “immunity.”

He can have members of the Trump administration dragged into court by U.S. Marshalls. And then if necessary, held in contempt of court and imprisoned.

The vast majority of Musk’s wealth is in the form of Tesla stock.

So you’re saying a price-to-earnings ratio of ~90x over the last five years is a reasonable valuation… when their competitors are historically closer to… 6x?

Isn’t that just as bad as Russia doing it?

That’s some real victim-blaming shit… What exactly did you expect Canada to do to counter Russian election interference in another sovereign nation?