Rolling your own email is a pain. That said, I use a VPS and host my own server with domain name and site for $5/month. Setting it up was a pain, but once you get all the records right so you’re not considered spam, it works really well. That said, I haven’t done anything with webmail; I strictly use IMAP and SMTP.

It’s a start. Just boycotting for a week, while a small drop, serves two purposes. First (assuming it registers), it’s a warning shot to the powers that be saying, “We are asking politely that you pick our side. We will get less polite.” Second, it gets people who would otherwise not resist more comfortable with it. Just as with evil, if one can go from A to B then B to C because C is not much more than B, the same incremental approach can be used for pro-social behaviors, too. In other words, not buying from Amazon for a week makes it easier to talk to friends about resisting, which makes it easier to go to a march, which makes it easier to…so on and so forth.

That said, I doubt that this will have much of an effect on Amazon or the other powers that be. If it registers, it will be a small blip. With continued action, that blip will grow.

It’s definitely a risk, but I think that it’s manageable. It’s perfectly legal to print and post things. Even if the authorities start looking for people, tying the tracking dots to an individual becomes harder if the printer is older (records get lost or just superseded), bought via cash, or bought second hand. The bigger risk, I think, is being caught in the act and chased off or having the posters ripped down or otherwise destroyed.

Plus, risk is part of the game.

A general strike would be amazing, but it’s not realistic. Even just having say 25% of workers out for a few days puts strain on the system. Same with limiting spending. If even 25% of the country spends only on essentials, then that’ll translate to a couple percentage points of loss to major corporations (not all of course, but some major ones).

It’s not about a silver bullet, it’s about inflicting enough paper cuts that it starts to hurt. No one thing will be 100% effective.

Sorry for the necrobump, but here is a finalized version of a poster. Please do with it as you will!

After working with @[email protected] on the logo in the center, I’m really happy with it. Please feel free to use it for anything you create, also!

I’m going to create a few more, so I would like to gauge interest on getting some server space as a central repository for designs the community creates.

Yes, he’s democratically elected. He also is violating the Constitution of the United States in multiple ways. Even if he were elected with a legitimate 99% of the popular vote, he should still be protested, impeached, and removed from office.

It’ll most likely be on a per-unit or sub-unit basis. Hell, not even every platoon will likely act as one…

If an illegal order comes down (because very many things are immoral but not illegal), there is a duty to not follow the order. That said, I’d imagine that the military will split. By how much is determinant on the method. An immoral/illegal order will probably lead to the split being mostly on the side against the government, e.g. being deployed specifically to shoot civilians. An immoral/legal order will likely end up with most staying with the government. Let’s hope Trump and his lackeys don’t have their lawyers look at things too closely…

Now, the real trouble comes in with something like simply deploying the active duty or federalized Guard within the country. No technical orders to shoot or do anything objectionable. Simply existing and “guarding” would likely be illegal under the Posse Comitatus act, but presence is not immoral. For this, I really don’t know how it would land.

A friend who works in the federal government found this on reddit and is passing it around. I quite like it.

For those who don’t know, all federal workers received an e-mail entitled “Fork in the Road” asking them for a deferred resignation. They have not taken kindly to it.

I appreciate the feedback! It’s already 8.5x11, but I didn’t think of what it would look like in greyscale. When I tried, the blue and the red looked almost the same. (Side note, the roundel being only the star and “wings” actually had an interesting look that I may play with more.)

Here’s an update. I agree that putting the roundel in the center looks better. I also made a version with a blue border and red writing. In greyscale, of course, they look virtually identical.

So, I liked your idea, and I threw together something pretty quickly. I was using a stylized omega at the bottom, but it wasn’t really working (to my eye at least). Instead, I threw on the U.S. air roundel from World War II. My thinking is that it’s A. a distinctly American symbol, B. Evocative of fighting fascists, and C. Different from the current roundel (which has a red stripe), but similar enough to be recognizable comfortable.

I’d love some feedback. I’ve got another couple I’m working on, too, that can be ready to share soon.

This is a great point, and I love the idea of picking specific issues! I do think some general “Fascists beware” style fliers would be good, though, at least from perspective of making them feel less secure. But I see what you mean that “fascist” doesn’t really meet the mark and could be misinterpreted. What is a less loaded term? “Trumpists”? “MAGAs”? (MAGAT is too loaded and negative)

Ah, gotcha. I didn’t go too deep into the code, just did a cursory look. I think it’s still an interesting concept.

Great stuff! If anyone knows any federal workers and contractors, please pass this to them over secure methods. Most of the suggestions presented are in the context of office workplaces, and the most effective people will be those people.

I don’t know why this is getting downvoted. It seems like an interesting concept for certain use cases, and it looks like it’s just a tiny team.

It’s not the most practical thing in the universe, but I have a small VPS that I host my email on for myself and a couple others (5 addresses in total). It’s a bit of a pain to set up, but once it’s working, it is really nice to have that kind of control.

Chicago has been doing a great job with getting the information out. Know Your Rights has guides in English, Spanish, French, and Mandarin.

The efforts are successful enough that Tom Homan has been complaining about them: Trump’s Border Czar Whines That Many Immigrants Are Smarter Than ICE

By all means text each other about it. No way they can find out about that.

That’s a great point. It’s worth going old school in this case for signalling. Word of mouth, visual signals, auditory signals, etc. that are seemingly arbitrary would be a good, though local, way of giving immediate signs.

However, it’s not illegal to monitor and publish that online. If you have the ability, it’s pretty easy to set up a website that has information on their movements. If editing privileges are restricted, you can make a good source of information that is the equivalent of a board saying “ICE reported in the area.” That’s just off of my head, though, so please feel free to poke holes and refine.

To be fair, that’s how some of the nazi concentration camps started. A lot of countries wouldn’t take the deported Jewish people, so the nazis had to come up with another “solution.” Unless something changes, this is where we’re heading, and it is beyond frightening.

Sorry if I wasn’t clear; I didn’t mean to make it sound like an attack or a lecture. Section 31 is just one of my pet peeves in Trek for a while. We are in agreement! 😊

It’s a fundamental misunderstanding of what Section 31 is supposed to be. Sloan wasn’t a good guy. 31 actively tried to commit genocide.

The idea behind them is that arguments of ends justifying the means and “getting dirty” to preserve higher ideals is morally, philosophically, and practically bankrupt. The Federation didn’t need 31 to win the war, and in fact, their methods would have made it much worse. Section 31 as a plot device exists to show us that there will always be those looking to use higher ideals to support terrible actions, and we must be constantly vigilant against them.

It truly pains me how that message has been twisted, and people think Section 31 are not only good guys but also cool.