Referring to the clothes specifically, if you're wearing lots of privacy-protecting gear and nobody around you is, it will have the opposite effect and you will be targeted.

It might be better to wear less obvious stuff like the big hoodie + facemask combo at first, and convince other protestors to wear smarter clothes over time, instead of immediately turning up in reflexive wear.

Good on people who come (very late, granted) to realize and denounce their own stupidity, but:

1. Absolution requires effort. If these people don't actually attempt to unlearn the bigotries that led them here, then they just want to slide back into communities that are nicer and avoid consequences
2. Do not financially support them. The money spent on this shitty merch is better used on their victims, there are many food banks in your community that can often triple whatever money you donate to them.

This is an extremely egregious and dishonest comment. You are ironically waxing poetic about the law that the current admin has torn to shreds with the help of this lawless force that everyone else actually wants to stop. Let's take a look here:

• Yes, we have to change the rules. It's actually very rare that oppressive laws are overturned through entirely legal means. "I can kidnap, torture, and kill people if the state says it's okay" is not the same as "Holy shit suspend that immediately I don't care if it's against the rules to do so".
• Yes, violence is excusable if the target is committing heinous acts of wanton violence. We shouldn't finger-wag murderers
• This goes back to point one, if your ""democracy"" allows for people to be violently oppressed like this, it is a total farce, and NEEDS to be entirely revamped.

You are, painfully obviously, someone who cares more about "stability" and "order" (dude just let the ruling class brutalize people every now and then, don't rock the boat too hard) than any sense of actual justice and safety. Stop defending literal politicians, who INTENTIONALLY put themselves in this situation and BLOCK anyone actually willing to help stop this madness, while you encourage the already-oppressed masses to take on more trauma with far fewer resources. Note how you don't even end your comment with any call to action like mutual aid, just "lalala these frustrated netizens are fake people block your ears!!", fix this

But the problem is that this reinforces their denial, which leads to them continuing to support other organizations that do the exact same things.

This isn't a *minor distinction", this is the very thinking that let ICE grow and expand for two decades.

There are no minors holding EU office, anything being done in the name of "kid-friendliness" is actually advertiser-friendly, minors are a convenient scapegoat with basically no political power who can be leveraged to curtail everyone's rights

Pretty sure he was already talking about the fertility of teenagers at some point, so this is more of a 360

Everyone's already pointing out "well doing nothing isn't helping" but I'd like to point out there are many steps between Doomscrolling and Suicide By Cop, such as talking to your neighbors and joining community projects to build your local resiliency.

Go to the library or search up stuff like "charitable orgs [zip code/city/whatever]" and see what you can do. You can't do anything if everyone around you is too broke and stressed, anyways.

There ARE transphobic contexts that other people here can better explain, but also, "Male/Female Socialization" generally implies that everyone has the exact same set of experiences they go through based exclusively on assigned gender, ignoring race/ethicity, sexuality, class, ability, neurodivergence, etc.

Like were you "male socialized" as a middle-class neurotypical white guy or what? It just doesn't provide a lot of useful context compared to how often it's used as a thought-terminating cliche to dismiss trans people discussing gendered issues.

I think it's safe to say the literal best thing to do when confronted by ICE is to try and leave, they will just ignore any identification and it's better to not be caught alone, have some people near you and work on cardio if you can; of course this doesn't help much with the door-to-door shit, so having emergency+legal contacts is also very important

This is true, but to float a counterpoint: the "on stolen land" is a direct counter to white-supremacist ideas that settler-colonies such as the US are and have always been "white countries", and those are the usual type of people calling immigrants "illegals".

Reminder that it's a news org's job to find and report facts, instead of writing more about the new nonsense coming out of the mouths of science deniers. Obviously this is logistically impossible and just another "THEY ALMOST HAVE NUKES!!" excuse to bomb Iranians ffs

US left is way too disorganized, but this isn't because of """tone policing""" (no you cannot say slurs) or debating the specifics of ideals (of course the right doesn't do this, they have no ideals, don't copy the child rapists).

It's because of, among other things, a decades-long operation to systemically crack communities, down to there being basically no infrastructure to even meet up at except the library or church, and also to keep everyone so exhausted and distracted they don't bother trying.

Solving problem #1 is harder but problem #2 involves communicating with people locally who you can actually work with (marginalized groups aren't going to work with violent bigots, if this annoys you, talk to the bigots yourself) and joining local orgs to meet needs – rent/utilities assistance, building community toolboxes and fridges, generally moving people away from "barely surviving" so they can actually develop an interest in leftist ideals

Offering a different viewpoint here: a LOT of people have been directly harmed by religious institutions, which is why there's such a viciously negative reaction at times.

"Reddit Athiest"-type Sky Daddy isn't real, cultist freak stuff isn't helpful, obviously, but a lot of it is knee-jerk hate responses to the concept of spirituality because they or someone they know was genuinely harmed by a church or a religious person at some point, and when this happens it frequently goes unaddressed. I would suggest blocking instead of engaging if it really offends you, as this kind of person usually isn't evil, and getting into arguments won't change any minds.

I'm not an anarchist, something that was obvious from how I spoke about them like an outsider, but this is such a disingenuous comment I'm gonna ignore that bit.

You do not care about reality – this is made obvious from your belief that property laws are some sort of sane and natural order, instead of being hackneyed together by generations of rich landowners with their own short-sighted, trite, and nonsensical goals. The violence committed by these freaks for more oil or sharecropping land or some other garbage is actually the opposite of normal humanity, unless you live somewhere where your neighbors shoot each other because they were bored and wanted a second house.

You see, within civilization, humans generally share spaces. There are no borders in the household or passport stations in the farmers' market. Anarchism is the belief that this can be expanded all the way to the international level; the comparatively simpler idea expressed by this celebrity is that there shouldn't be a military dedicated to attacking random people who are just trying to live in society because they're "illegal", especially considering this society is already built on attacking random people and the attackers, by their own definitions, are actually already here illegally. The fact that this simple slogan pisses you off is a genuinely fascinating concept and makes me think you aren't too happy to abide by the social contract.

Of course, but when discussing patriarchy it's more useful to just utilize intersectional frameworks and specify you grew up poor/black/closeted or openly gay along with AGAB, while when people say "male/female socialized", it's.. too unhelpful to converse around. Descriptions are already possible without resorting to defaultist phrases that, frankly, assume someone is white, middle-class, etc like I mentioned. Too many people are not those things, these aren't outliers.

This is a good idea. Maybe as small strips to sew onto clothes as well? Most of these camera systems target the face, body size and shape, and gait.

"No-one is illegal on stolen land" is a staunchly pro-immigration, anti-colonial, and anti-borders statement made by people in anarchist-adjacent circles. You're arguing about laws and legal processes that people with this sentiment hate and seek to abolish. Everything you've stated here is correct, but in this context it doesn't matter, isn't it pedantic?

I'm in Texas and have been looking into Manitoba, and can assure you based on their parties alone that it's "only right-wing in the context of Canada" 100%.

I have no idea what adding Minnesota would do though, it would completely change politics in the area even if it was its own province, never mind the US actually allowing that to happen.

Oh don't worry, I'm under no delusion it's some sort of leftist utopia, it's just that Manitoba could be FAR worse. Please keep fighting for those rights regardless of whatever laws are in place, don't just assume it's all settled.

Protests are basically giant rallies of people in your area who are motivated by similar grievances as you. The protests by themselves don't do much but you can discourse and connect with other people who attend them.