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Originally Posted By u/Quick_Assignment_725 At 2025-09-07 05:11:31 AM | Source


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[–] Corelli_III@midwest.social -2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I’ve seen this general thing around, where someone suggests some relatively mild form of resistance, like a protest or something,

This is not that. This is a suggestion to write a letter to a Christian Nationalist Empire asking them to stop funding its own super-PAC. "Getting into a mindset" is not a reason to send a letter directly to your oppressor authority. Sending a letter like this is useless at best, but is likely harmful, as it directly and conveniently shares your information with people who run domestic concentration camps.

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 3 points 2 months ago

And they don't have everyone's information already, considering they have both the government and media companies that have spent a great deal of effort building algorithmic profiles of everyone's interests for advertising purposes, on their side?

The issue for authoritarians isn't "not knowing who opposes them in order to arrest them", it's that you can't arrest everyone who dislikes you and still maintain a functioning country, so they make a big show out of arresting and persecuting the most visible targets to make everyone else too scared to do anything. Doing something like this is probably not risk-free, but if they do decide to go after the letter-writters, whatever capacity to arrest, prosecute and detain those people that effort requires must then be used on them instead of on someone else that they probably should find a higher priority.