It’d be quite nice if the USPS integrated GNU Taler as its banking system, were that to ever happen.

If someone attacks you first, and you slip on the brass knuckles before defending yourself, then surely that would be a defensive use?

It seems like a leap that people don’t have the motivation to unionize and strike, but would eagerly hop into a full on violent revolution?

Realistically, unless the military fractures or fully refuses to engage against this revolution, the best you’ll get are The Troubles.

I don’t see why he would?

1. Joining and organizing within your local community to create connections with others is incredibly powerful, will lay the groundwork for effective resistance.
2. We can effect things drastically with a general strike. This can massively impact their income streams, and can bring a government to its knees if done on a large enough scale.
3. Join the IWW and attempt to unionize your workplace, so that the general strike is even more effective.

If we put in the work, we can resist this and we can win. Join up with allies while we still can easily!

There have been some successful non-violent revolutions in history, and there’s a strong case to be made that not exhausting those options could be a huge mistake.

We still have, right now, completely un-used tools at our disposal, such as unionizing en masse and deploying a general strike, which is insanely powerful (capable of bringing a nation to its knees if done widely enough), while being far less dangerous and more appealing to the general populace than any other means.

I don’t suggest the IWW so workers can strike for better wages, I suggest the IWW because it is the only anti-capitalist union in the country, and was traditionally a vehicle for people to organize under with the goal of using labor as a political and economic club against the ruling class. It also teaches people how to organize on a national or even international level.

Take the CNT and FAI syndicalist/anarchist unions during the Spanish Civil war, as an example. They were in the best position to organize the populace of Catalonia due to having been so successful as a trade union first. It’s a useful and powerful non-violent tool in our arsenal.

1. Joining and organizing within your local community to create connections with others is incredibly powerful, will make the coming months much more bearable, and lay the groundwork for effective resistance.
2. We can effect things drastically with a general strike. This can massively impact their income streams, and can bring a government to its knees if done on a large enough scale.
3. Join the IWW and attempt to unionize your workplace, so that the general strike is even more effective.

If we put in the work, we can resist this and we can win. Don’t become paralyzed with doubt and fear, march on and push as much you can, and join up with allies while we still can easily!

Just want to mention DavinciBox, which makes installing Davinci on any distro a pretty seamless and hands-off affair.

We have a few options at our disposal:

1. Joining and organizing within your local community to create connections with others is incredibly powerful, will make the coming months much more bearable, and lay the ground work for effective resistance.
2. We can still effect things drastically with a general strike. This massively impacts their income streams, and can bring the country to its knees if done on a large enough scale.
3. Join the IWW and attempt to unionize your workplace, so that the general strike is even more effective.

If we put in the work, we can resist this and we can win. Don’t become paralyzed with doubt and fear, march on and push as much you can. Together we’re strong, separated we are weak. So join up with allies while we still can easily!

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That powerlessness you feel is by design, and every state technically wants you to feel some form of it, with varying intensity. It keeps people from trying to make things better without actually having to put effort in to preventibg them.

But there are things we can do, and we are not powerless. Get involved in your local communities while there is still time to organize: https://infosec.exchange/@tinker/113589807117870451

That’s how everything in history has ever changed for the better.

Our only hope is to direct pur collective efforts into building horizontal egalitarian structures in society that can permanently replace our existing institutions.

Getting involved in your local communities is the first step: https://infosec.exchange/@tinker/113589807117870451

Hopefully more workers in other industries and areas that traditionally aren’t unionized take the risk to unionize, perhaps with the IWW’s help.

You didn’t mention guerilla warfare in your other comment, you said the US isn’t that much more militarized than anyone else, and that there isn’t much disparity between small and large weapons.

Could America sustain a resistance similar to The Troubles? I think so. But any sort of conventional warfare, like along the lines of the Russian or Spanish civil war, is quite unlikely, which is what I thought you were implying.

I mean, thousands of international volunteers traveled to Spain to help during the Spanish Civil war. The same is true for Ukraine and to a lesser extent, Rojava.

Try taking a look at [email protected] or [email protected] for a while, watch some Ukraine war footage, and realize that as bloody and horrific that war is: Both side are nearly at parity in military strength, and neither side is capable of air superiority.

Now imagine civilians with hand weapons going up against the most advanced, funded, and well trained volunteer military in the world with an unlimited budget and legendary logistics.

Your suggestion is only remotely possible if the military and the industial complex behind it fractures and joins the rebellion in a sizeable amount, otherwise it’s suicide.

Union dues fund a strike fund that is used to pay workers while they strike, that’s why unions are so important to be able to strike.

You bet it is.

Cheers for sharing that!

I would argue the next step that would really make a difference is economic warfare, such as ceasing purchases of any nonessential goods, and a national general strike. That would have a dramatic effect.

In the meantime, the best option is to organize in your local community to lay the groundwork for such a thing to happen.