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Resist: It's Time

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We are still in this together, but "this" is going to be real different in the very near future. This demands a different kind of "we."

The French Resistance during Nazi occupation played important roles delivering downed Allied airmen back to safety, supplying military intelligence, and acts of sabotage.

The Underground Railroad is estimated to have brought 100,000 freedom seekers to safety between 1810 and 1850.

It's time.

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[–] [email protected] 120 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Skin makeup over existing tattoos, then get one of those temporary water-decal-thing tattoos of some random tribal design on the forearm or something.

Bam. Evidence that the person in whatever photos/videos that were captured isn't you.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What about those fake tattoo sleeves what are like stockings with the print on them? No idea how well these cover the existing tats tho

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That might be better for skin coverage too, teargas and pepper pray aren't just eye/sinus irritants, they affect the skin as well.

[–] Pyr_Pressure 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Until the fabric absorbs the chemicals and is a constant source against your skin until removed

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Do you know that this happens or are you just speculating?

[–] Pyr_Pressure 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's pretty common knowledge for anyone who works with chemicals that the first thing you do when something spills on your clothes is to remove your clothing, otherwise it's just keeping the chemicals in contact with your skin for it to prolong absorption.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It’s also common knowledge that protective clothing can prevent chemical contact with skin.

[–] Pyr_Pressure 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

As long as it isn't absorbative, so if you can find a tattoo sleeve made of nitrile or latex go ahead.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

Lab coats are just normal textile. The point is you have to take it off immediately in case of accident. You do the same with the sleeves. No problem, much better than having the chemicals directly on your skin.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Put a piece of cloth in your shoe, like a small folded dish towel. People can recognize your walk and identify you just as easy as seeing your face.

Arrive and leave from a large crowd if you can, assume you are being followed there and back and change into your "hero" costume in a restroom or other area off camera.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

So 30 people went into this toilet, 30 came out but only one of them changed. We got em.

Think carefully about where you change.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

Not 'people' but AI-assisted gait analysis. Scan of video footage identifies points on body, tracks movement of those points through space, represents this as output of an algorithm, which generates a result (e.g. a long sequence of numbers like a barcode) which is unique to you. They cannot i.d. you by name and address unless they have your biometrics on record but it is a potential way to identify you just like fingerprints or dna and will stay on record and might hurt you in future.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Shoes also leave very identifiable prints, so buy secondhand burners with cash.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 week ago (6 children)

this is all great advice when you're planning actual resistance, not cosplaying revolutionaries for social media

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Step 1 is already illegal in my country on a protest.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 week ago (3 children)

God forbid we break the law

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

Yep, we are just about past the point of caring about laws. I know I was done after J6 pardons. That told me laws are out the window now.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

I get the sentiment, but depending on the particular activity, not breaking the law is an advantage. A peaceful protest in front of a government building following all laws makes it harder to justify breaking up, especially breaking up violently. It's a PR game just as much as it's a social action game. To be clear, though, this doesn't cover every instance, but there are times where following the rules to the letter is beneficial...just not always.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

That's an easy pretense for our overly violent riot cops (who are deployed to literally any protest but somehow can't be arsed to disperse illegal overtly racist protests nowadays) to arrest you though. And keep you detained for up to 3 days iirc.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Motorcycle helmet or full-face bike helmet. Problem solved.

What, folks are on me all the fucking time to wear one. If they want to complain that I'm complying, that sounds like a them problem.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Not in Germany. The law is very abstract. Technically, it does not even allow you to take stuff with you that is supposed to hide your face. On the other hand... Even a T Shirt can be used to hide the face...

https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermummungsverbot

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Hey we have the same dumb law in France. I remember getting a ski patrol guy getting very confused when I snarkily asked him if I was gonna get in trouble for wearing my balaclava to the slopes, which was technically illegal according to this law.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

paint your face like a tiger

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Fucking facial recognition...how does that work?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (5 children)

After sonic/microwave attack in Serbia, you need to take headphones and a physical barrier to shelter behind, I dunno, an umbrella backed with tinfoil? One of those foil emergency blankets?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

People said they could feel their eyes vibrating, I wonder how effective headphones would actually be.

What's scary to think is that whatever it is, it's probably flirting with the threshold of very serious harm on a large scale. Imagine all the literal skeletons in the development process for this.

Whole thing seemed more of a weapons test/advert than an actual interest in crowd dispersal too. That wasn't an unruly crowd they used it on.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

If vibrating eyes is true, the noise is probably in the 30-80 Hz range, somewhere like an idling truck engine or a higher end subwoofer.

That type of noise is rarely heard by ears, but felt as vibrations in the body, and is mostly registered as physical discomfort and stress. At volume it would probably be enough to be very uncomfortable, but not necessarily immediately dangerous, it's probably on par with working in a large engine room.

Hearing protection will help filter any accompanying noise, and should help keeping your head clear even under the added stress. It will do little to lessen the low frequencies.

Low frequency noise has to be reflected through considerable mass and/or stiffness. Think walls or three pane windows, but also human bodies. Maybe forming ranks and rotating members could be a useful tactic?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

how about stay away from crowds? one of these days, you're all going to be cattle led to the slaughter. a much wiser strategy would be to act in squads, spread out, and targeting things that actually throw a monkey wrench in the system.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The problem is that, in D&D terms, you lose action economy that way. A thousand rats might only deal one damage each but all of them at once would obliterate even hardened adventurers.

If people split into groups then yea, the police and whatever would need to prioritize, but the groups could also be handled more safely. Two or three VERY LARGE crowds would be great, but “squads” of even twenty people, against a militarized force, would just be easy pickings. And it’s an exponential loss(just as much as adding people is an exponential gain) so it would be incredibly risky.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

D&D rules are an abstraction. please don't plan a revolution based on a fantasy RPG.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (5 children)

If you can’t figure out what I’m talking about and how someone can use familiar ideas to make an explanation more approachable then maybe more complex strategy isn’t your thing.

“Going out in squads” would only work with large crowds as a distraction if you had any level of organization and intent, which you would or it would be a fucking mess that you’d never control in the first place. You’d also be already at the guerilla warfare part of this revolution because what the fuck does that even mean when it comes to trying to show mass displeasure? Standing out front of ever politicians offices at once but never being remotely threatening because each “squad” can get its shit rocked one by one?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

cells within cells

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Several layers of foil on your large protest sign, Also bring earplugs.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So copy the tats of a local cop matching your build and get scanned

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ew. I've seen cop tattoos.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Not the white power ones under their clothes. The dumb tribal ones on their arms you can get washables of for pennies

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

That's very clever. I like it. Let's distribute temporary tattoos of known maga ice folks at rallies.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

Yea I don’t get it. It’s an older gen Anarchist prepping their new gen anarchist child. Something we should foster.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

What’s the symbol on mom‘s shoulder? The O with the ᛋ ?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

this is not what it is, but it kinda looks like the flash logo/symbol lol

edit: ok fuck whoever made that png

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I found out that it stands for the squatting movement originating in the Netherlands.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

'squatting movement' sounds like some kind of weaponised shitting. Knowing the Dutch, I think they'd be amused by that idea.

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