A lot of people are very concerned about it. but what am I supposed to do about it? I voted, canvassed, and donated as hard as I could already. and I lost.
It really isn't rocket science, German hardcore ecologists put more efforts on a random Tuesday morning than Americans during a coup, it's mind boggling.
They gave you an online "public square" so that you can all scream in its void, get the fuck out and protect what's yours
I'd rather stay and fight.
Huge hint, the other party always thinks the world is over if they lose.
This is more of that overreaction that got him elected again.
The biggest thing we can do is get people out to vote in the midterm election and take back the house and senate. Until then we need to volunteer and donate to organizations that are fighting back legally like the ACLU. Education is also a huge part of that.
Organizing peaceful protests is possible but fraught due to anti-protest countermeasures employed by fascists. Stuff like media blackouts, attempts to incite violence, astroturfed counter protests and false flag operations make it dangerous and hard to accomplish. A big thing we can do is to create our own media coverage of protests and spread it as much as possible on friendly platforms. Putting up signs, posting to Bluesky, posting to group chats, and educating friends and family. Utilize your own personal networks to wake people up to the problem.
I remember a while back with SOAP and PIPA there were templates you could read, do those exist for this case?
I know using the phone can be uncomfortable if you don't do it often and that's okay. It gets easier the more you do it, and you don't need to word everything perfectly. The important thing is that you get your point across. "My name is x, I live in county y, and I'm calling to say I expect a yes/no vote on issue z."
I called and kept calling until I got through. There were busy signals for 30 minutes before I got in. Be persistent. Keep trying!
You may get either voicemail or someone will pick up. A staffer will be who gets these messages, so be polite. Simply being polite means you’d be doing better than a lot of other callers.
I state my name, that I am a constituent, my city+ZIP, a brief message stating that I urge the congressperson to support/oppose an action and why.
If you’re talking to a human, give them a moment to jot it down and you’re done.
Also, you don’t have to call their DC office. If that line is busy, try a field office.
My friend worked for her as a page one time. If congress isn't voting on something to do with potatoes or blueberries, she doesn't even show up. She's been emphatically on-board with this for a decade now.
Maybe your senator doesn't care, maybe the courts are bought and the criminals are immune, maybe maybe maybe. Fighting means you keep powering through the maybes, the roadblocks, the hopelessness. There are sophisticated campaigns at work designed to make you feel hopeless and powerless. DO NOT give in to these without a fight!
Watching from Europe, I think you are getting close to the point where 75 million people need to hit the streets (preferably in DC).
It appears they are trying to beat the 53 days record.
It's not banned in war because it's as dangerous as chemical weapons, it's banned in war so people don't think you're using chemical weapons.
“Regulations, basically, should be default gone,” Musk said. “Not default there, default gone. And if it turns out that we missed the mark on a regulation, we can always add it back in.”
“These regulations are added willy-nilly all the time. So we’ve just got to do a wholesale, spring cleaning of regulation and get the government off the backs of everyday Americans so people can get things done,” Musk said, adding later: “If the government has millions of regulations holding everyone back, well, it’s not freedom. We’ve got to restore freedom.”
We can't convince the other half that wants this...
Also DT had a minority of the popular vote after you account for 3rd party.
If enough people do it, maybe MAGA 401ks going down will make people care.
Or how do you think your ancestors got democracy and kept it in the first place?
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1901/witbd/
Organize into a political party. Spread pro worker information and convince the working class to join. Democratic Party is not it, in my opinion.
I'd find calls from, say, AOC or Taylor Swift more interesting than rando red rose LARPers.
Absent this, people will get more and more frustrated which will eventually manifest as riots as it did in 2020. So if you prefer a more peaceable outcome, I think it's better to talk up the idea of a general strike rather than talk it down.