With federal agents storming the streets of American communities, there’s no single right way to approach this dangerous moment. But there are steps you can take to stay safe—and have an impact.

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    • resist
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    a 900 count box of loose roofing nails is $18. four flat tires is about $800, plus a $400 tow.

    if you can get all the tow companies to reject to tow the vehicle will block traffic for hours if not days.

    cleanup is easy. just get a magnet.

    latex paint can be stored in balloons. it’s slippery and gets into everything. it can jam and damage firearms and make tasers no longer function safely. add in some sand to the paint and it’s even worse.

    lots of ways to resist without killing. just annoy the fuck out of them and waste their time. if they’re dealing with the general public they can’t abduct the people they’re targeting.

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      Unfortunately, that’s hard to do at scale — a small group will be outgunned by the federal government, and a large one infiltrated. People are using nonviolent civil resistance instead for now

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          Its actually having a rather significant effect of greatly limiting ICE and — in the past few days — convincing the bulk of Democrats that they no longer want to fund ICE and even getting a couple dozen to support impeaching Noem.

          We wont win tomorrow, but we will win over a period of years

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    Aim for the pelvis. It isn’t armored, it’s easier to hit than the head, and wounds there can be incapacitating or even fatal.

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      Yes! And it’s easier to watch what thier hands are doing when you aim low! Plus most poeple miss high so your shots will still hit the torso. I started training myself to aim for lower gut, instead of center mass when I target shoot.

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      People are very deliberately not doing that. The idea (for the moment) is to use civil resistance to limit what ICE can accomplish while not provoking a gun battle where the federal government can outgun any local group

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          You and two buddies with rifles won’t either. It takes wining Congress. Right now animal costumes which causes pepper balls to fall to the ground instead of bursting are doing more for us than guns

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      People shooting at, or killing ICE officers is exactly what the regime wants so they can declare martial law.

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      People are not doing that because any group small enough to be trusted will be outgunned by the federal government