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Those signs insulting them do nothing, and thats what they want...these domestic terrorists need to be forcibly removed. Nothing else will stop them.
Your comment does less.
Let me know when you're done forcibly removing them. Or are you armchairi g this and managing to doing even less than less?
What do you think the average person could do, besides luigiesque activity, to help stop or slow them down? Like, little things they could do a few times per week. I’m open to possible misdemeanors, but I’d like to avoid felonies. Any thoughts?
Actually even that (usually referred to as adventurism) is just pointless. Luigi's alleged actions were the talk of the news for a month straight, it united both left and right online, yet are there any protests for the release of Luigi right now? Has healthcare improved in any meaningful way? Did anything meaningful come out of it besides a few CEO's being spooked and removing their contact data from websites?
There are no little things that can be done on an individual level, even if they result in felonies. Collective action is necessary and joining/getting involved with local protests is as good of a starting point as any - it won't achieve any meaningful change alone, but if it's used to gather more and more support for an eventual escalation that would light a fire under the government's ass, only then would any kind of change happen.
Such a lazy non-answer.
is America, all dissent charges are felonies now
I agree, but at the same time comments like these are as useful as Americans shouting at Russians back in 2022 to "just overthrow your government lol it's not so hard, here's some tips on how to stuff a molotov in a tank".
These kinds of protests and movements won't make the people in power ragequit, but they are useful for organization and gaining support which will later have to escalate in order to do anything meaningful, with things like general strikes and violent escalation if even that gets ignored.
The question is - will the protesters be willing to escalate? Or are they under the delusion that peaceful protests alone will be enough to destroy an authoritarian regime? Only time will tell.