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Yes, this is the main tenet of capitalism

Slava Ukrani

From the article. Make sure you contact people from the neighborhood and get buy in. Stay friendly, have a few people designated to handle counter protesters but keep the most people on the checkpoint.

Kindness and Community Are Everything

Community defense hinges on community consent. Especially when deploying more assertive strategies like checkpoints, organizers should be friendly and welcoming to drivers and passerby alike. Thus far, the filter blockades have been popular in the Twin Cities, receiving widespread support in the form of encouragement, food, and supplies. Groups seeking to set up filter blockades should do so with the broadest possible coalition of community support, taking every measure to ensure that the blockades don’t disrupt everyday life in ways that people don’t appreciate.

How to organize a rapid response from a very high level with further detailed resources. https://southerncoalition.org/resources/rapid-response-101/

Good general advice on organizing, also a good resource to find groups near you that are likely aligned. https://www.fiftyfifty.one/organizer-resources

Shit is going down in Minnesota but they’ve never been more organized than they are now. Only we keep us safe.

If you want to help you can donate to a few groups.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-equip-twin-cities-legal-observers-with-ppe

https://nlgmn.org/mass-defense/

https://www.wfmn.org/funds/immigrant-rapid-response/

More comprehensive list here https://www.standwithminnesota.com/

Familiarity is important, training will save your life.

Get an IFAK and go to a stop the bleed class https://www.stopthebleed.org/

If you’re currently versed in Firearms and are able to start a chapter, or if you are lucky enough to live in an area with a local chapter the SRA is a good organization. However they are apparently fractured and their politics may not align. https://socialistra.org/

https://www.blazingsword.org/ is better for LGBTQ+ anarchists that tend to not get along with Tankies.

A more decentralized option could be a John Brown Gun Club https://www.counterextremism.com/supremacy/john-brown-gun-club

Good basis of organized tactics. The guide below is more about organized movement than direct fire. Below will NOT help you in a firefight as it relies on a much larger trained force than you are likely to have. Good to know what the bastards study though. https://www.trngcmd.marines.mil/Portals/207/Docs/TBS/B2F2837 Rifle Squad Tactics.pdf?ver=2015-05-27-100939-710

How to avoid getting balled up and kettled. https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anarch-ish-how-to-win-at-kettling-a-guide-for-non-policemen

Sabotage guide from WW2 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184.txt.utf-8

General armed defense https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/organizing-armed-defense-in-america

How to organize a rapid response from a very high level with further detailed resources. https://southerncoalition.org/resources/rapid-response-101/

Good general advice on organizing, also a good resource to find groups near you that are likely aligned. https://www.fiftyfifty.one/organizer-resources

Feel free to reach out for any other resources

Um rewriting?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Exclusion_Act

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_catcher

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_Americans

https://www.npr.org/2020/06/08/871929844/cult-of-glory-reveals-the-dark-history-of-the-texas-rangers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_espionage_in_the_United_States

https://19thcentury.us/when-america-despised-the-irish-the-19th-centurys-refugee-crisis/

https://www.watanserb.com/en/2023/09/04/the-1970s-saudi-us-diplomatic-chess-kissinger-prince-fahd-and-hidden-alliances/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings

We’ve been pulling this shit forever.

Happy we agree there’s no material benefit to using live animals to do an imperfect job of what cheap drones are already doing.

So no benefit for using a pigeon.

My comment was a “yes and” to add context not trying to discredit or correct your statement. Sorry if it came across that way.

Whoah.

Please correct me if I’m wrong but this can streamline incremental backups from filesystem level snapshots of a live system no?

Police violence.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-09/crowds-protest-israeli-president-isaac-herzog-in-australia/106321716

Been a problem for a while.

https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/08/20/neo-nazis-marching-australia-victoria-jacinta-allan/ archive below
https://archive.fo/mMO55

Bring back the Punk Clubs

https://www.gq.com/story/punks-and-nazis-oral-history
Archive link below
https://archive.fo/0p7Da

Kurt Brecht (singer, D.R.I. [Dirty Rotten Imbeciles]): In Canberra, Australia, it was only a handful of them, but they were disrupting the show and standing in front of us. Everybody was kind of standing around, and that’s when I gave a little rant on stage: “Why aren’t you doing anything?” [People in the crowd responded:] “You guys can leave, but we have to see them around, and they’ll jump us later and scratch our cars.”

Hitler was ridiculed in the very beginning as well.

https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/38799/why-did-paul-von-hindenburg-wrongly-call-adolf-hitler-bohemian-corporal

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/normalization-lesson-munich-post/

To name just a few.

I’m happy we came to consensus.

Also now I’m nostalgic for tree sitting and arbor work. Be well internet stranger. Please set a timer on your phone when you sleep in the bath because hypothermia can fuck you up even in “room temp” water and cause nerve damage.

I pulled too many drunks/opiod users/babies out of too many bathtubs as an EMT.

So you agree humans cannot, yet, breathe water. 🤪

Since https://www.space.com/18758-mars-rover-curiosity-discovery-hype-misunderstanding.html 2012

Not to mention formaldehyde in the atmosphere or the contaminated 1996 meteorites.

NASA has done an amazing job cataloging all of this and the international study of the samples is a herculean effort and enormous accomplishment.

But like, there’s been microbial life on mars in it’s history.

https://www.healthline.com/health/dry-drowning

Sure but you can still drown wide awake.

Cross border solidarity is there for anyone who will contribute

https://bryanparkerlaveryvery.substack.com/p/how-canadians-can-support-and-advocate

https://deepwiki.com/drupal/drupal

It’s a RAG that will only answer questions about the selected repo (drupal in this case) less likely to hallucinate as it’ll only pull from the github docs, but it can still hallucinate. Also uses less resources as it’s not searching all known training data.

It is still an LLM though so if you don’t like any “AI” I wouldn’t use it.

I mean you’re historically correct…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alleged_CIA_involvement_in_the_Whitlam_dismissal

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-19/australian-spy-boss-wanted-cia-to-keep-canberra-link-to-jfk/105071278

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/australia-special-forces-war-crimes-afghanistan-b1762761.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brereton_Report