You're a "resistance" leader with supposedly 200k+ members but nobody knows how to join that 200k. You keep posting numbers like they're coded messages but no actions follow. The only apparent way us fed employees know to interact with you is buying your merch, which I suppose is your actual goal..

Yep, keep posting random codes and saying "general public disregard" to farm engagement, and selling merch on your website, AltNPS. Meanwhile, as a federal employee, how do i join this "resistance" movement that supposedly has 200k+ members?

It's a scam, Lisa. Sorry to break that to you.

Is sending a clear message of deterrence against terrorism, to both the state and to bad actors, dumb? All concealing does is make it appear as though you're defenseless, it defeats the whole point of having armed people at protests. It should have prevented violence. The "peacekeepers" though...

We know of him attending BLM protests in 2020, and the No Kings rally this past weekend, so I'd say he was protesting police brutality back in 2020 and protesting the Trump administration in 2025.

Well I think it's fine if a trans person secedes!

Our reality includes weapons. Understanding it will prevent you from, idk, firing a pistol into a crowd at one of your allies and killing another. Common sense (with a dash of understanding) might prevent that tragedy.

Or you can live in a fantasy where we're all disarmed and nothing bad happens.

I hate that he used that word, but also we absolutely DON'T have to "hand it" to neo-nazi propagandist Tucker Carlson when the broken clock happens to display the correct time. Broken clocks do that sometimes, it doesn't mean they're not broken, or worse, intentionally and maliciously lying.

If you had to Google what "low ready" is, then you are not qualified to be a peacekeeper at a protest or to really have a substantive discussion about community defense until you maybe take some training and run some drills.

Ready for what? A militarized police force, armed right-wing militias...

That is true. Black bloc probably isn't enough to reliably signal that. Maybe a red bandana to signal (red and black = anarchist/anti-authority leftist) but that can be misunderstood. The problem is that the right co-opts symbols all of the time, and bad actors take advantage of symbols.

The guy who came to a protest carrying his rifle slung at the low ready, never making a threatening gesture or pointing it at anyone, just like he's done without incident at leftist protests for 5 yrs is in the wrong, but the guy who shot a pistol at a moving target in a crowd is in the right?

True, but I don't think that this person was an accelerationist. He carried at protests for at least 5 years without incident and was loved by his comrades for it.

He was in black bloc and had been going to leftist protests openly carrying his rifle for years. He was carrying at the low ready, made no threatening gestures, no sudden movements, etc. The security person attempted to murder him, and you're blaming him and saying he should've wore a giant sign..

It's all around us and it is, unfortunately, what those who want to kill us have. You can be unarmed, but if you want to go to protests and actions, then get comfortable with your comrades having a diversity of tactics - some will be in black bloc, some will wear masks, some will be armed...

I also used to think it was worthwhile to hold one's nose and vote for the lesser of two evils. As do most voters in the US at this point.

All that does is speed our descent into despair. It leads to our choices both loudly supporting the genocide in Palestine.

Liberation won't be on the ballot.

I used to think there were exceptions. I used to think AOC or Sanders or someone like that might lead us to a better future.

Now I know that only we, ourselves, can be our own liberators. Political power, in and of itself, corrupts everyone who aims to wield it.

Liberation will be decentralized.

There are efforts ongoing in the GSUS Discord to network state-by-state and stand up that kind of networking, to set up local mutual aid networks and/or get people connected with existing projects (such as Food Not Bombs)

More needs to be done but we are all welcome to join in and do the work.

I have no idea who or what "Smokefleet" is, but every single time I see it in someone's bio, it ends up being an insufferable person with awful takes, needlessly antagonizing people on here.

Yeah - hoping he's able to be like his older sister, Vivian, who's now living as an independent adult and speaking out against her father.

I see someone else on here uses Arch with an AUR helper :)