White folks are used to being polite and accommodating to cops. Do not fall into your old ways. For once, your silence will not be violence. STFU if the cops come looking for your neighbours. No matter how friendly.

Fascism only works if we go along with it. Fascism only works if we surrender to it. Resist. Do not say a word about your neighbours. As far as the cops are concerned you’re a recluse who doesn’t talk to anybody where you live."

ID for all 3 images: White text on a black background:

"Fascist raids by law enforcement should be met with:

I don’t know.

I can’t help.

I do not know anybody’s legal status.

I have no idea who is an immigrant.

White folks are used to being polite and accommodating to cops.

Do not fall into your old ways.

For once, your silence will not be violence. STFU if the cops come looking for your neighbours. No matter how friendly.

Fascism only works if we go along with it. Fascism only works if we surrender to it.

Resist.

Do not say a word about your neighbours. As far as the cops are concerned you’re a recluse who doesn’t talk to anybody where you live."

Credit: @Raeeka Yassaie

  • Trilobite@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    I grew up in a small town on the border when the border patrol would ask us if we had seen any aliens we would always just look up and say I think I saw one flying around up there

  • Itsamelemmy@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Do not say a word about your neighbours. As far as the cops are concerned you’re a recluse who doesn’t talk to anybody where you live."

  • flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I always forget that not everybody had a Buddhist hippie uncle and aunt doing lessons with them on the weekend.

    My cousins and I will randomly say, “What is (Uncle’s) number one rule?”

    And everyone present will chant a phrase thst would dox me, that boils down to “don’t help the police!”

    We can all play a part. Mutual aid means using whatever you bring to the table. If you can, think of it like a video game or a tabletop game. I look like I do and made a lifelong practice of learning how to talk to people. Now I have a high diplomacy check (and sense motive.) My boyfriend spent most of his life in the military, and his capacity for violence makes him the barbarian. Together, we are prepared to help in many, many more ways than either of us could ever do alone.

    And the bigger your circle, the more situations you’re prepared for! If you haven’t yet, take an honest assessment of your skills. Figure out how you can most help others. You don’t have to be an S rank talker or violencer, you can be bad at the skill you pick! The important thing is to pick the skill, *then work on it. *

    Even if you don’t have a circle, if you’re all alone, you can be preparing yourself to help others who need it. You are valued. You are loved, even if you don’t know it, even if it’s easy to feel like you’re not. And when you eventually find your tribe, or when your tribe is being attacked, having skills to help others and yourself is the best thing you can do.

  • Allonzee@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Hard disagree.

    Tell them you know where to find lots of heavily armed illegals up to no good, and give them the names and addresses of any Maga friends and family members you know.

    Maybe lie that their last names are Sanchez or Ramirez. Waste their time and energy.

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
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      4 months ago

      “I don’t know, but people are telling me they’re named Sanchez” but don’t do the Trump voice.

      • Agent641@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        Richard Sanchez. Saw him with a minor, doing dodgy stuff. Maybe stealing, or attempting to steal something. Heavily drunk.

  • blackberry@midwest.socialEnglish
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    4 months ago

    so… in the age of digital surveillance, no one needs to ask other humans about each other. most humans willingly or unknowingly give all their data, like location, identity and more

    you could point everybody in the direction of privacy, which might actually help disenfranchised peoples (if you ignore facial and gait recognition, voice and emotional analysis tracking throughout most cities…)

    not legal advice, and not advocating anyone doing anything illegal of course

    • ShareMySims@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
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      4 months ago

      It’s a bit too late for that, the digital information is already out there, and trying to hide any of it now wouldn’t be much use against physical door to door/workplace/school/church raids anyway.

      • blackberry@midwest.socialEnglish
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        3 months ago

        well for other “law abiding” peoples, we should train them. since there were rules against eating specific icecreams on certain days in the US and the nazi party in germany retroactively enforced new laws, so things can change quickly

        • ShareMySims@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
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          3 months ago

          Train them to what? Retroactively scrub their presence off the internet? Off of the government records? Impossible.

          Really not sure what point you’re trying to make with Nazis and ice cream, but either way, laws don’t exist to protect citizens, and going forward, they are being written to actively harm them.

          Expecting the law to protect you is a huge privilige.

  • Mike D.@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    Why the need to single out white people? The blame goes around to many groups.

    With regards to talking to the police follow the advice given in this video named Do Not Talk to the Police.

    https://youtu.be/d-7o9xYp7eE

    • ShareMySims@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Ah, yes, “not all white people!!12*”

      But somehow also “not only white people!!11” (my morbid curiosity kinda wants to know who the fuck else you think christo-fascist white supremacy* is serving, benefitting and protecting, but my sanity demands I don’t engage with you any further).

      Which amasses to “I’m too busy centring myself* and my whiteness*, and finding a way to claim some victimhood in this situation, to hear what those who are actually under attack are saying”

      Check your fucking privilege*.

      That is if you’re even willing to examine your white fragility

      *If anyone needs image descriptions, please ask

      • Cypher@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        Non-whites have never been police, never talked to police, never voted for the Evil Party and shouldn’t be included at all in advice to not be evil, misguided or duped.

        • antiquity2038@reddthat.comEnglish
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          3 months ago

          Your statement seems to be inaccurate. 16% of black voters and 43% of latino voters in the U.S. voted for Trump. If we go by your logic, which seems to be that “People who didn’t vote Republican don’t need to hear this advice.”, then this post applies to all ethnic groups in the country, especially if the Trump administration does go looking for every unregistered immigrant in the U.S., and they do this by knocking on people’s doors out in the street instead of using the advanced surveillance tools that they and the big-tech possess.

    • mipadaitu@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      I watched this video 12 years ago, and again just about every year since.

      It’s basically the most important video for anyone (especially Americans) to watch and understand.

  • doingthestuff@lemy.lolEnglish
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    4 months ago

    I actually support some limited deportations, not at all what is being set into motion. But in regards to this post, you should never talk to, or assist the police. There is always a good chance they’re looking at you to trump up charges even if you’re completely innocent.

    “I don’t consent to searches. I don’t answer questions.”

  • unphazed@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I know who’s an immigrant. Unless your name is like “Wind on Water” when translated, you’re an immigrant.

  • FPSXpert@discuss.onlineEnglish
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    4 months ago

    The only proper response to a door knock is “come back with a warrant”.

    Rights are rights for a reason, don’t let that shit erode any further.

    • shirro@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      4 months ago

      That is fine while you have the rule of law and independent institutions to enforce those rights. When those institutions are eroded or facing the barrel of a gun then people’s rights might as well he written on toilet paper.

      You can’t make up for a dysfunctional political system with demands for fictional rights.

      People from one particular notable country always get the emphasis wrong in my opinion. Perhaps they are all brainwashed. They think the rights uphold their system when in truth it is the system that upholds the rights. It has kept them blind to the reforms needed to breathe life into a system that barely qualifies as a democracy by modern standards.

      • Klear@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        They think the rights uphold their system when in truth it is the system that upholds the rights.

        Totally stealing this.

    • FPSXpert@discuss.onlineEnglish
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      4 months ago

      I’d also like to take this moment to remind how to handle a police interaction in the USA, in a one minute video described by a few lawyers: STFU Friday!

    • sudo@lemmy.today
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      4 months ago

      The only proper response to a door knock is to not open the door.

      If the fascist pigs have a warrant, they’ll find their own way inside anyway. Otherwise, they can stay the fuck out.

        • Schmoo@slrpnk.net
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          3 months ago

          Still, there’s no point in making it easy for them. The sooner you accept that your rights won’t be protected, the sooner they’ll disappear entirely. You must act as if your rights are natural laws of the universe, and if enough people do then they may as well be.

          • ShareMySims@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
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            3 months ago

            You must act as if your rights are natural laws of the universe, and if enough people do then they may as well be.

            That’s how we get to where we are now.

            Rights dictated to you by the state are categorically not universal nor natural, they exist in service of the state and the capitalists who own it, and they can and are withdrawing them as they please.

            The entire point of the post is that people who have more privilege need to stand the fuck up for those who have less, not try and find ways out of doing so.

            Edit to clarify: giving the cops the pleasure of kicking down your door and arresting, or even shooting you for “resisting” isn’t making their job harder, only yours.

      • Mr_Blott@feddit.uk
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        3 months ago

        That’s a song about people standing up for their rights and for those of others, doesn’t really apply to the US, let’s be honest

        Most will be sitting on their pile of guns, quivering with fear

                • horse_battery_staple@lemmy.world
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                  3 months ago

                  You referenced come out ye black and tans, and are currently shitting on the idea of an armed populace, I linked a resource for armed socialists and you shit on that too. I asked about if you’ve ever spent any time in Northern Ireland, and you dodge the question.

                  What this tells me is you have no understanding of what you’re talking about. Feign solidarity with a historically oppressed people. Finally you’re using other’s struggles to stir shit on a public forum with little regard or understanding of what you’re saying.

                  I would invite you to head up to Derry. Pop in a pub, start up a rousing chorus of Come Out Ye Black an Tans and stir the same shit. Lettem know how great a violent struggle is, ask em to tell the tales of their troubles. See what community outreach you find there after that.

    • pyre@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      they just raided a restaurant I think. though I’m not sure they asked people questions about neighbors I think they just violated the 4th amendment and asked for papers.