Draegur

I'm talking to like minded people overseas about preparing resources to help at-risk people evacuate the United States. I'm also accumulating an emergency fund and arming myself. I will continue to masquerade as a cis white dude so I can move mostly unimpeded. I plan to help people get to New England as a staging point--it will remain RELATIVELY less dangerous than most other parts of the country here--where they might have a chance of SURVIVING LONG ENOUGH to cobble their shit together enough that they can legally get overseas from here without violating a visa and getting deported back to this shithole.

I will also continue attempting to practice the art of not tipping off the enemy by giving them any warning that I might be a threat to them. I must swaddle myself in the flayed skin of civility. I must smile politely and patiently to their faces. I must lull them into feeling safe around me. I must wait until their back is turned. And then I can personally drag them to hell by the neck. Hopefully when nobody else will witness it.

There needs to be fewer fascists in America. One way or another. I'd rather see them convinced rationally to peacefully change their minds and stop being fascists. If they remove that option, well, they get lie in the beds they've shat.

Hmmm. Actually maybe it can be leveraged.

There should perhaps be a default instance that it funnels everyone into but makes a "power user" option available from a drop down where they can CHOOSE an instance. Make it an opt-in thing instead of a mandatory hurdle.

If they don't like the way the default instance is managed (content moderation, defederation) they can think "oh wait, there's a solution for this! Well, now that I know what I'm getting into it's not intimidating anymore"

Mastodon needs this too.

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Mastodon needs this ESPECIALLY.

Yup.

"they can't do that, that's illegal!"

Shame the law doesn't mean Jack Fucking Shit now.

The law is whatever they want it to be at any moment.

seems you missed the part where I specifically mentioned how people may want to go someplace other than canada

be it Canada or elsewhere

wherever they wish to end up.

At this point all you're doing is making excuses to not help.

We can't expect Canada to take refugees lightly.

People need someplace where they can feel safe enough to collect themselves so they can cross the border prepared and introduced to the proper receiving channels of the receiving country, be it Canada or elsewhere.

There are places in the United States, though, that will remain somewhat safer for longer. Making it possible for people to clear out of the most dangerous areas to these halfway-havens is crucial to ensuring that they SURVIVE LONG ENOUGH to get their affairs in order for wherever they wish to end up.

Do you know if there's an underground railroad to help at-risk women, persons of color, and lgbtq people safely escape the United States yet?

I want to sign up as a conductor because I can't escape myself and as long as I still LOOK like a white dude and the government still thinks I'm cis I can at least be a useful for flying under the radar.

The coordinated enshittification is rather disheartening.

I'm still daily driving a Samsung Galaxy Note 9 because all the phones thereafter felt like a downgrade, and the problems like the one referenced in this article have only convinced me further...

I miss 2014, when the note 4 was the flagship. Note 4 kicked ass.

perhaps the only ethical consumption under capitalism is that which denies capitalists their profit.

A beret and a cravat!

A fedora for the necktie like a 1950s hard boiled detective!

A pointy wizard hat and a robe!

With THAT hat? Definitely a bowtie. It's a verticality balance thing. The hat is vertical so the tie should be horizontal. Now, if the duck had a WIDE hat, THEN you go for the long tie.

jesus talk about having noodle-arms

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