fucking morons. antifa is a concept, not a "org" like the proud pussy boys
the bad thing is they can label anyone they want as "antifa" then detain them without any actual charges.
"that's illegal!!!"
yea. and?
habeas corpus, due process, "innocent until proven guilty" -- bid farewell to all that, and anything else that was protecting you from them and not the other way around
Pretty sure βinnocent until proven guiltyβ has been out the window for decades. How many people are currently locked up before their trial? I can name at least one.
Burner phone bought with cash set to auto upload to somewhere untraceable. After you are far away and safe.
If can't afford that and feel you need to document, disable all location tracking on your phone and put it in airplane mode. Do not take it out of airplane mode unless there is an extreme emergency. Not even wifi allowed. Disable all biometric unlock. Make a long PIN and memorize it, don't write it down. Keep the phone locked or set it up to lock with one click in case it is taken from you.
Just in total agreement here about everything else but we need proof.
If you feel you need to document, just bring a camera. Doesn't matter if it's a DC-G9, or a point-and-shoot from Walmart, it's a simple matter to strip meta info from images. If the federal government really wanted to track who was at a protest, they could probably figure out who bought a "burner" phone, even if you used cash. Those cheap phones still upload a vast amount of tracking data, and even if you turn off location tracking, it's still on and working because Google doesn't allow you to turn off location for their services. So even with it turned off, you can still be caught with a geofence warrant.
Copypasting this comment I copied from lemmy a couple months ago. Sorry OP I canβt remeber who you are.
βOne of the core tenants of neoliberal education is that violence is always wrong, it's never the answer, etc. They repeat it so often and in so many places because it's at obvious odds with the state. They use violence against us so often and on such wide scales that their only option is to convince that it's not violence.
Over producing with limited resources is violence. Throwing away food while people starve is violence. Leaving buildings empty while people die of the cold on the street is violence. Preventing the sick and dying from accessing healthcare is violence. Evicting people from their homes is violence. Depriving the chronically ill and physically disabled of the means of survival because they can't generate capital for capitalists is violence. Climate change is violence.
The truth is that they deeply fear what we would do if we actually recognized all those things as violence. They do literally everything in their power to prevent us from achieving class consciousness. They have infected literally every single facet of society in an effort to keep us from seeing each other as human.β
I roll my eyes real hard when moderates oversimplify to just "violence". As if genocide and defense against genocide are morally equivalent in the slightest.
It's a coward's way to sound principled while pretending state violence isn't violence.
Going online and telling other people to commit violence is incredibly easy. It also has little to no impact on actual violent activity.
By contrast, you've got politicians actively running cover for paramilitary in the US. If you can shoot someone and get away with it - as in during the Rittenhouse murder, the Daniel Perry murder, the NYPD subway shooting, various murders of migrants on the border... you can take this all the way back to Rodney King or the MOVE Bombing if you like - then you have a strong incentive to do it again.
By contrast, if you're a Christopher Dorner or a Micah Xavier Johnson or a John Allen Muhammad or a Luigi Mangione, state officials will have unlimited resources and full license to take them in dead or alive.
You can talk all the shit you want about fascists but when push comes to shove where do you think you're going to be standing? Fascism works because the fascists are killers and the shitposters are terminally online dorks.
And where pray tell will you stand? What conversations are you having in the meat space? You talk a lot about the real world in your comment replies but I see very little talk about proposed solutions or actionable content. You seem to yell at the same clouds of those that you chide. Just from a different angle.
Everybody I know in meatspace is even more ready to throw down! They're all waiting for someone else to go first; it's a powder keg. (Bias: I'm in LA, we're devastated by climate change and ICE is rounding up our neighbors)
Do they condemn violence against Nazis? As far I have yet seen, they are willing bedfellows to fascists when it comes to economic policies. But I haven't heard any liberals object to hitting Nazis.