For Surely Someday...

flavoracle

I’m not a brave man. I’m not a violent man. But I am a man who knows my strengths, and I’m prepared to use them.

So if I encounter any ICE agents in my neighborhood, I will smile and waive and as soon as they make eye contact I will engage in the most aggressively friendly chitchat ever witnessed on my block.

I will ramble on and on about whatever pops into my head. I will ask them about their day, their hobbies, their home life, and their personal backstory until I find a common area of interest, and then I will crank my smalltalk game UP TO ELEVEN.

I will force them to look awkwardly at their wristwatch DOZENS of times without taking the hint. I will ask seemingly simple questions that do not have ANY simple answers. I will pretend to wrap up the conversation with, “Anyway…” and then segue DIRECTLY into another topic.

Because every minute an ICE agent wastes chatting with me is a minute that they’re not targeting my neighbors and disrupting their lives.

I’m no superhero, but I do have a super power, and I’ll use it to fight oppression in any way I can.

outerspace-froggy

Love you, Dave

destinyislander

@flavoracle I’m not a brave man, and I suck at small talk, but I would say I can be violent, what should I do? Because I’m not brave enough to act out but I wanna help

flavoracle

I mean, I’m not gonna ask anybody to engage in violence, but if you’re looking for something to do, what about this?

Get a copy of the song, Cotton Eye Joe. Carry around a big, loud speaker. If you ever see ICE show up in your neighborhood, start playing it at full blast.

Best case scenario? You can motion for them to come over your way and challenge them to a dance off. (Probably not likely, but it never hurts to dream.)

Worst case scenario? They think you’re weird and like Cotton Eye Joe.

Likely scenario? If you’ve let your neighbors know ahead of time that hearing Cotton Eye Joe means ICE is in the neighborhood, it may give them the head start they need to avoid harassment.

Now you might be thinking that picking Cotton Eye Joe is a really random choice, but consider the following reasoning:

The song has a very loud, clear, and distinctive opening, so it gets the message across right away without spending time on any kind of intro
The song was once popular enough that people can easily recognize it
While the song is catchy, it’s not very likely to be anyone’s favorite, so you don’t have to worry about ruining it for them
The opening line ‘Fit’adn’t is nonsensical enough to be used as a secret tipoff if you’re unsure who’s listening
It’s upbeat enough that it likely won’t get on your nerves too fast
When played really loud, it becomes nearly impossible to talk over

Would this actually work? Honestly, I have no idea. I’m no expert in active resistance. But I figure it’s worth putting out there. And who knows, maybe it could catch on.

Stay safe everybody.

‘Fit’adn’t

flavoracle

The tags that @anautisticaquarius added to this thread are just too good to stay hidden, so I took a screenshot to share with the rest of you :)

what pewdiepie did:

lumpkinboi

- turned the war against T-Series into a charity event that raised 200 thounsand dollars in a day

- that’s not even counting the millions of dollars he raised for charity during his entire career

- shouted out numerous small creators so they get some attention (we all know youtube’s algorithm sucks)

- brought attention to a channel who’s host had passed away, knowing it was his dream to have a popular channel on youtube. his parents now host the channel.

- constantly interacts with his fans via community driven videos, gives attention to numerous artists that post on his subreddit

y’all:

- “he said the n word that one time, so :////////”

ch3lsor

Actually me:

- For his time as a youtuber, he has consistently made rape jokes, promoted nazi imagery and beliefs, literally paid people who didn’t speak much English to hold up signs that said “death to all Jews”, and yeah, said the fucking n word

- Has never offered decent apologies for these instances, instead resorting to bullshit excuses like “it was a joke” or “it was a heated gamer moment”

-He consistently promotes alt-right and far right zealots, has actively cited neo-nazis as having good youtube channels, and follows all of these people on twitter:

you may recognize several of these as being active and vocal transphobes, homophobes, racists, and misogynists, many of whom have been pushing ideas like white genocide that have an actual body count for years

-Passively allows nazis to use him as a recruiting tool and as a dog whistle. Introducing people to racism and nazism in a fun, comedic manner is a historically extremely effective method for radicalizing people to violence. It’s no coincidence that 51 people were murdered under his name.

-It literally doesn’t matter whether he actually supports nazism, he has still fostered a space for nazis to feel safe and to recruit new members and unless he actively and unceasingly condemns the ideology and drives away all the nazis who follow him he is complicit in everything the alt right has done or will do in his name. He hasn’t even attempted to do such a thing.

-It doesn’t matter how much of other people’s money he gives to charity. People are dying because of him.

-And yeah, again, he said the fucking n word. stop supporting racists.

finndeservesbetter

And for all the “uwu he’s HUMAN he makes mistakes” dumbasses in the notes I’d like to say, “so what?” We’re all human, what makes him so special that we are constantly told to exempt him from criticism or responsibility?

He’s a piece of shit that was never funny in the first place, quit supporting him.