Unhealthily amounts of doomscrolling
Start moving.
Start knocking on all your neighbors doors and introduce yourself. Get phone numbers and set up a signal chat. Start now. Like 3 doors today.
Start stocking things like bottles of water, whistles, gas masks, high vis vests, weather gear. These are essentials for neighborhood watches. Portable chargers are also helpful. Identify places in your area that might be especially vulnerable.
Try to set up plans for people who may need to stay inside for their safety. Set up a mutual aid food delivery plan with your neighbors, especially neighbors who are not white, bc when people go into hiding they can’t go out to work or buy food. People also need things to do while stuck inside, board games, art supplies, books, etc.
Find or start training sessions for citizens on their 1st and 4th amendment rights. Monarca is active in MN, there might be something similar near you.
Have a place where people can upload videos and document everything.
Contact your representatives, now. Actually call them, you can just google them and they will have an office phone number. There are scripts online if you’re unsure, but just tell them what you think and the urgency of the situation. Start with your city council person and go right through to your senators.
These are all things that will make you feel energized instead of listless, connected instead of isolated. Relieve your stress by working to plan to fight back now. I hope the time never comes, and if it doesn’t, you’ve channeled all the crap into something productive and come together with your communities to get educated, get organized, and get more caring to one another.
What about the 2nd Amendment?
That doesn’t answer OPs question. Also we are doing all that.Edit: my reading comprehension is lacking.
That’s how I channel my anger and irritation at the US allowing ICE to stifle people’s liberties. That and blowing a whistle in their faces every day. I guess poetry just isn’t going to cut it these days. I find the things I listed answered the question for me, clearly they didn’t for you. You are welcome to completely ignore them.
I’m glad you’re ahead of the game! That doesn’t mean everyone everywhere is, so I’m not sure who “we” is in your last sentence. You and…everybody?
Also, three people ahead of you seemed to find my comment helpful. The only unhelpful thing I see around here is your snarky af reply.
He specifically asked how you channel your irritation. Your answer was telling us what to doNot what you are doing.Edit: im sorry I didn’t read OPs question correctly
Ok bro
Here, let me break it down. Since you’re not from the US maybe it’s a language thing.1. Those of you who are angry at the US - This is you 2. For allowing ICE to stifle liberties - This is what the US is doing 3. Including me - OP says he is angry AND allowing ICE to do what the US is doing 4. How do you - He is asking what YOU do 5. Channel your anger and irritation - How are YOU USING the anger and irritation to make things betterEdit: me stupid
Dude, I was born at United Hospital in St. Paul. I’ve never lived anywhere but the Twin Cities. These fuckers are 4.5 miles from my front fucking door. The shit I said wasn’t pulled out of my ass, that’s what the fuck we’ve BEEN DOING. And it’s working so I told other people about it, and for some reason that made you go off the fucking deep end. You need to get a fucking life. And fyi, I am at the Whipple Building EVERY FUCKING DAY so you can go FUCK YOURSELF.
Everyone else, take care of yourselves and watch who you trust. Assholes like this will ALWAYS try to weasel into shit and bring their negative bullshit. Get prepared and keep fighting!
Uh
I just realized this post wasn’t directed at just non-us residents.
Sorry bro
making a list of the people actually responsible, in order of how rich they are
I’m going to be playing the cool hand and putting a full court press with a measured response to my MAGA co-workers and roll out the slow drip of bad news to many of them who are already getting a taste of taking America back to Trump’s “new Gilded Age…”
They get to play the part of the people living in filth and squalor while the Robber Barons lived high on the hog.
Will do this by reminding them that their costs will continue to skyrocket for insurance, and oh did you hear that once we’re out of NATO ad kicked out of the military bases across Europe, taxes will have to rise to cover the costs of building new bases in other countries we haven’t pissed off. I mean, it’s too bad that the billionaires got permanent tax breaks from Trump while we get to foot the bills for them.
Trump sure loves the poorly educated, and the working class voters that voted for him, doesn’t he?
I’m going to needle and do it with as little gloating as possible and try and make them so sour on the GOP they either switch to a Democrat (unlikely) or don’t vote again (the better option)
Not getting hot about this and serving up resistance coldly is where I’m heading.
Hitting the gym. Exercise is good for one’s mental health
Feels like more of a Diogenes era to me.
i prefer socrates
I work in healthcare. I’ve been spending a lot of time studying, listening to podcasts, and improving my healthcare knowledge and trying to be a better provider for my patients. You know, do better for the little bit of community I can affect.
I also go to the gym a lot and I’ve started doing a martial art. Get my physical body in shape and get myself out of my head. It gets me to stop thinking of the world and my own problems for a while.
I am an absurdist. Rebellion is a way of life and a major tenet in my fancy made up religion. Find out your risk tolerance. Figure out small ways you can rebel without putting your loved ones in harm’s way and minimizing the risk to yourself. From as little as turning graffiti swastikas to LOVE WINS and giving Krasnov stickers little mustaches to finding, following, and whistling at ICE when they’re anywhere near your community. Sign up with the Black Panthers for community patrolling and stay safe. Get out there, get to know your neighbors and simply build community relationships. Everything that They (you know They) are trying to destroy, rebel by building it and alternatives back up.
I write poetry in my free time. (I sometimes post them on here !originalpoetry@literature.cafe
I’m working on my memoir that includes my experience growing up as a child immigrant in the US (now naturalized btw)
I read about history stuff, Wong Kim Ark and I know I’m not alone. History is filled with injustice, and we are living in the history books, and I hold on to the hope justice prevails, just as with many times before, thing have improved. I hope that it will be the same for the future.
I comment on Lemmy to vent.
FUCK ICE btw, unconstitutional pieces of shit.
I’m a Citizen so I dare to say:
FUCK ICE. I HOPE Y’ALL GET PROSECUTED AND GO TO JAIL FOREVER and better yet: I hope for y’all to [redacted], and that We the People will [redacted] you all.
(It’s not “threatening violence” if I didn’t actually type those words 😏)
What about the incomplete sentence “with a mortar launcher”? It’s NOT “threatening violence” if you say it and just that?
I’m honestly too depressed to channel anything - it just comes out at random moments when I’m alone while I struggle to keep myself going (something only happening at all because I have to for those dependent upon me).
Have you considering doing poetry?
Sorry, poetry never appealed to me for whatever reason.
What kind of creative thing you’re thinking of doing?
I appreciate your persistence in trying to help, but it’s honestly better spent elsewhere. I’ve long lost virtually all hope, and even if things magically became as they should be tomorrow I believe I’m far too damaged at this point to be recovered as the person I could and should have been. It’s been too long. I have no life outside of my responsibilities, and I’m just going through the motions - and not terribly well, at that.
Have you tried doing online painting?
You’re probably doing better than you give yourself credit for.
Make space in your day to do something you want, anything, even if for only 5-10 mins. My husband has spent the last year or more rebuilding his sport’s card collection. We’ve a small house so he’s turned our small little “walk in” closet into his “office” or card room. Sometimes I find him just, sitting in there, decompressing. It’s his happy place. Whether in your mind or a tangible spot, get you a happy place, if even only for temporary relief.
Hang in there, maybe we can get some hope back this year.
learning to write better rust code (no ai)
Are you a bit rusty?
Music
i would say firearms training, but that will never happen with the gun adversed “left.”
Been stacking up on green tip.
I would say start barricading their headquarters so they can’t get out as a sign of protest. If necessary start helping immigrants hide from the authorities.
