Trump/Miller's response to these protests has been to immediately encourage ICE to escalate their raids around specific cities, calling politicians on the left radical while they're being assassinated in cold blood. It doesn't matter if we meet that magic number and they ignore us anyway. Not if we go home the same day. We need to organize in a way where we don't need to leave the streets. By continuing to work and pay taxes, we are participating in our own destruction. We need to clog the machine, in every civil way possible, until they concede. The next protest needs to be a general strike. You can't truly call for change if you're still feeding from their hand while their other hand is in your pocket.
So don't go home, or at least get out there every day until they concede. Some of us don't have the luxury of a home to go back to. Some have been robbed of our life and liberty and sent to some foreign gulag until the day we die. And soon their hateful rhetoric will build until they come for you, too. The civil war never ended and the Heritage Foundation has been planning this for decades. Now is our chance to crush fascism where it stands. For our next protest, get out there and HOLD THE LINE. If they deprive us of our lives for doing so, that was their plan anyway. Whatever peace you feel holed up in your comfortable box of an existence is an illusion. I would rather die than live in a Christofascist state. I was raised in and escaped from a Christian doomsday cult - I would be very disappointed to find out that I left it for nothing, for people who would not defend our home and our way of life because it was "too inconvenient." Now is the time for conviction. If you can't choose a side, you've already lost.
Originally Posted By u/Baumarius At 2025-06-16 10:21:28 AM | Source