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I’m European and I’m thankful for each American showing their disgust with Trump, Vance or Musk.
And I truly hope for more getting to the other side.
I’m curious though, what exactly are you doing to contribute to do something against Trump, Vance or Musk?
Started in 2003 when I was 13 and would fundraise at middleschool against the war in Iraq.
Somewhat prioritized political literacy and critical thinking as a young lad, though I was lofty and idealistic in those days I was at least trying to do something. Genocide in Sudan and watching Schindlers List when I was 13-14 also fueled that fire.
Got extreme at one point, friends and I used to attack-on-sight Nazi's and KKK every chance we could get, in some cases endangering their lives. I cooled off that stuff and attended the Occupy protests in 2011, was one of the 800+ people that got herded onto the Brooklyn Bridge by police and mass arrested. Did you hear about that one?
2013 I (naively) worked for Greenpeace for a few years, alongside environmentalist charities and activists in the SW Pacific (New Zealand, Fiji, Australia). Got there with $15 to my name after hitching a ride on a sailboat, ended up dressing up as an Orangutan in the boiling Australian sun and making police chase me (they never did catch me.) Worked with the Wilderness Society, worked alongside Bob Irwin (Steve Irwin's dad) on the Fight for the Reef campaign to protect the GBR from getting dredged for coal shipping (our campaign successfully delayed them for a year, after which they dredged a world heritage site anyway.)
Since then I worked small, working with various charities from deaf kids to blind persons, attending every protest I could physically attend. A recent diagnosis of Graves Disease has put me on my arse for a while, but despite that I still stood up to the pogroms in the UK, using my body to block protestors from bricks. A brick hit my bad knee too, but i'd take a million more.
Does my resume satisfy you? Now lets see your card, what have you done?
I'm very happy that people like you exist. It's just not as easy as you make it seem. I live in Germany and we face a very similar political fate. I feel pretty helpless. I go to protests, I donate money to causes that work against nazi shit. I invested heavily in changing my lifestyle to a much greener one. But all of that has just a tiny impact unfortunately. I'm too old to get physical plus I have to take care of my daughter. Many people are reliant on a functioning society.
As long as social media exists the way it does now, nothing will really change. I will be writing EU officials to boycott American tech. If Europe stops using that shit, propaganda is reduced to traditional media, which isn't nearly as effective. But again, this is just a tiny drop in an ocean of things we would have to do.
Everything you mentioned is 1000x better than occupying a sidewalk (that oligarchs dont walk on) with signs that try and make JD Vance feel shook. I'm not against occupying sidewalks with signs, just think we should be doing outside mansions and gated communities, where billionaires in their pajamas can see us. Megaphones all night long, i'd be helping to hand out free coffee.
Wouldn't the fediverse actually be a good starting point for getting organized? That always seems to be the most difficult part. The Nazis have it easy because they have plenty of money to use the algorithms for their own advantage.
Obligatory https://sopuli.xyz/c/Civic_Engagement