• PierceTheBubble@lemmy.ml
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    1 day ago

    Isn’t it ironic how ICE agents wear masks, while scanning everyone else’s faces? Also props to Second Thought for not pushing defeatist mind-poison, because that’s exactly what they want: for us to feel powerless, and making it seem “resistance is futile”.

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      19 hours ago

      It doesn’t have to succeed for me. If my actions to lead to the success of another’s resistance that will still satisfy.

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        3 hours ago

        I’m not entirely sure what you’re trying to say. It to me reads like you would contribute to someone’s resistance, but not for yourself, but for someone else instead? Which in itself is absolutely fine, but I hope you’re not under the impression, such technology only affects persons targeted by ICE. That these systems are used for that is simply insult to injury, that is the overall privacy-implications of mass-surveillance.

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          3 hours ago

          You can chip away at power structures and resist them. You still lose but leave them weakened and more vulnerable to the next to challenge them. Eventually they fall.

          If you comply instead, you strengthen the power structures that do harm anyway.

          The only rational move is to resist.