Stay safe rule, my brothers, sisters and anything outside and in between.
No idea where else I could post this with maximum visibility.
Stay safe rule, my brothers, sisters and anything outside and in between.
No idea where else I could post this with maximum visibility.
I do want to point out that this isn’t a policy maker, just a vocal idiot.
However, it is well understood that the fascists have no desire to include LGBTQ in their “in-group,” Given that the regime has already removed protections for Trans individuals, it’s a matter of time before RFK Jr refills the CDC and declares it a disease requiring extensive study.
This means there is time to prepare. Immigrating is stupid hard. Moving is stupid hard. Find someone you trust that can hide you at a moments notice. Keep a pair of sunglasses on you that will cover your eyes well. Hair dye in black if you have light hair, bleach if it’s in a dark color. A change of clothes, a pair of shoes, and a backpack you’ve never worn or used. Edit: these don’t have to be new as in unused. In fact if it’s used, it will probably stand out less.
Above all, remember this isn’t permanent. Fascism will break itself eventually, even if the rest of us are unable to.
SHOES!!! ffs MAKE SURE YOU CHANGE !!!SHOES!!! along with the rest. Shoes are usually the one thing that people forget to change and will get you recognized, police know this, you should too
Actually, that brings up other things.
I would also suggest shoes that have been worn, not by you, and sized bigger or half size smaller than your current shoe.
If you wear jewelry? Now you don’t.
If you don’t wear jewelry? Get some magnetic nose/earrings/lip things.
If you have tattoos, for the love of everything, cover them. Tattoos are probably easier to identify someone than their own face.
Damn good plan, the rest too. I just know the cops here always want the colour/style/brand of shoe a perp wore, or as much as can be remembered.
It’s an easy way to track people. Shoes leave a pattern. You can get the shoe size from the pattern in mud or snow etc. like fingerprints.
Vocal idiots rants are currently being turned into actions by the current dipshit in chief.
Laura Loomer is practically dictating domestic and staffing policy by complaining online, for example.
They try out such takes through the vocal idiots, but after it gets zero backlash (real backlash, like violent protests), it becomes the actual agenda of policy makers. That’s how authoritarianism and fascism is being built.
So, trans and LGBTQ+ folks, please be very careful and consider leaving US if you can. And if you stay, organize with like-minded people and don’t be alone
I managed to get out of country recently, like a few weeks ago. I’m going to try and make it easier for others to immigrate, be a place for people to stay, if I do well enough maybe provide financial stability while they get on their feet. I did what I could in the US but for the foreseeable future my path is to be a landing pad for others looking to escape
idk how feasible hiding someone in a fully authoritarian no-privacy regime would be, ig it’s best to hope that some measure of privacy would stay for a little while
some thoughts:
i feel like if you’re one person it would be hard to support another secret person without it being obvious, if the administration is willing to devote the resources to aggregate all of this data and such
edit: here’s a recent video that talks about some of the (publicly known) tracking stuff in the US
If you have to go into hiding, you go directly there.
Once there you begin working on a means to get out of country. It needs to be done through VPN use something like mullvad.
Do not leave hiding until it is time to leave the country.
The reality is that if these guys go full Nazi, we have plenty of history to see what not to do if you can’t get out of country.
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Thanks for adding all of that.
It’s daunting.
The bit about XMPP is good, VPNs usually require payment of some sort which means a way to track you. Signal is useful for off-device message intercepting. While I’m not sure of what the state of on-device interception, and it can’t be ruled out.
And comparing this to a fugitive situation is sort of exactly what I was going for. The fleeing slaves, the persecuted in Nazi Germany, immigrants today, etc. in the eyes of authoritarian rule, there is no “getting off the bad list.”
Ultimately, getting out of the country is the safest bet. But it’s hard. And that’s the original problem I want people to be aware of, it gets crazy hard the longer people stay.
If I could get my son out of country I would. He doesn’t have much to fear, being a cute white boy with blonde hair and blue eyes. But he has AuADHD, and that’s the part I’m concerned with right now. I’d have to get special permission from the state and my ex to do it, and she won’t.
But you did remind me of the other thing. Since I can’t get out with my kid, I’m getting into better shape. When it comes down to it, we’ll need it regardless if we flee or fight.
Yeah, I just don’t think you could stay hidden for long because it could be pretty obvious that someone’s suddenly started buying twice as much food right as one of their friends disappears (both of which would be relatively easy to detect without individual attention)
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I just want to add that a basic battery powered hair trimmer can be very effective if you don’t have a sink handy to dye/bleach your hair.