It's not a good idea but not posting actionable threats isn't keeping you safe from the feds either. They can arrest you on a whim and hold you as long as they want.
You’re a good man. Some of us are old enough to remember clicks on landlines , when we spent any time at all around AIM or the like . Mostly AIM for me
I'd rather exercise my 1st Amendment rights and die in some kind of re-education camp that's sponsored by Amazon and run by Joe Rogan than clam up out of fear.
They'll have to catch me first - and they never will.
I'll have a two-day head start on them, which will be more than I need. I have friends in every town and village from here to the Sudan. I speak a dozen languages - know every local custom.
I'll blend in, disappear. You'll never see me again.
I understood 15 years ago when I first decided to not be anonymous online that it was extremely likely that one day I'd have to contend with that under fascism.
I don't regret my decision. My Opsec is straight openess, own everything I say, all from a position of strictly independent observation.
I dunno. It’s kind of an I am Spartacus situation in this particular case. I think the fathomless hatred of our healthcare system cuts across more than some of the hand-wringers think
They changed it because he was blatantly cheating and lying about what his forces were doing, completely defeating the point of a military exercise. Motorcycle couriers are fine, motorcycle couriers that travel at the speed of light are not.
I live on SS and I have Medicare. Both are being threatened by the incoming fucking fascist. You want me to care about the FBI reading my posts??? Peter, get a grip.
You are right! We should censor ourselves before they censor us. OR how about.....we keep hammering on about the first amendment like Rudy Giuliani did in court when caught for lying. Let's try that!
It's the frustrating situation where if you try to write things that won't run afoul of federal law enforcement a lot of people will badly misread you and think "oh so you you think the health insurance industry is good then?"
Well I'm cooked. That's the only way I've ever referred to him since that early LWT episode. I refuse to give him the web hits and attention by using his other name.
I’m old and about 20 - 50 millionth on the list of Trump’s enemies to be dealt with. I’m just betting that I will die before the FBI gets around to worrying about me
If the fbi is worried about an old overweight woman with a couple chronic pain conditions who likes to run her mouth occasionally then they are probably being run by an alcoholic serial abuser.
The FBI's artificial itelligence-intelligence service will read what I wrote and draw a picture of Bugs Bunny at the dentist's surgery on Wallaby Way. Writing a backlog of stupid shit will occupy their attention and then I will move back to the farm with Zsa Zsa. WAY AHEAD of you.
Do I need to delete every tweet I made that amounts to “ugh everyone treated Biden horribly even though he’s the GOAT of POTUSes” and “Jai Kamala Devi” and “I’m upset about being robbed of a Harris presidency” then?
Hahahaa, jokes on you. some of us look forward to telling Kash Patel how to pleasure himself. and that goes for ANYONE willing to go along with that fascism bullshit.
I’m not worried about trump and the FBI. The real danger for most of us will be with trickle-down fascism. From the emboldened local MAGA thugs looking for targets
Yes, I've given this some thought and wondered about this...It's so hard to believe that we need to be concerned about loosing our 1st amendment rights...
I am not ignorant about it. I have studied and thought about it a lot.
We have a duty as free men and women to say whatever we want and speak the truth consequences be damned.
Maybe its a privilige, but it is one that must be exercised or it wil be lost.
Then, your initial reply is simply pointless. The "OP's" argument is a mere observation that some people are, in fact, ignorant to it which your response towards is immediate aggression, seeking confrontation because there is no mindless agreement towards people's calls to have more people murdered.
I didn't use aggression.
I think I made a pretty simple point myself.
"Dont obey in advance" is a phrase that's been bouncing around lately.
Don't try to scare me out of expressing myself, is probably closer to how I respond.
Imagining Columbo saying "you say you wanted to do those things in Minecraft but you have a brand new PC but you haven't installed Minecraft yet. If it's such a priority to do all this in Minecraft, why haven't you installed the game yet?"
i think in this case and only this case the sheer volume of ill wishes towards the guy should protect most of the less overt people but in most cases yeah you have a point
For those of us with FBI files that date back to before social media, we've learned to hide in plain sight. This means becoming adept at language that plausibly could be non-actionable. (And no, not all of us have files from criminal activity, aiding our plausibility.)
They’re already onto me. Got nothing left to lose now!! Y’all gonna keep me company in the camps? We should start a packing list. If 100 people bring a rubber band, can we McGuyver outta there? I got decent aim. I’ll annoy the guard. Probably use 10ish of the bands though…
Trump tried to chat me up once, but considering it was 20 years ago, I probably can't rely on my charm to help me escape prosecution. That said, he's into Laura Loomer, so...
A more specific scenario: If you are arrested at a future protest, your angry posts will be used to elevate and add charges and sway a jury that you’re the type to assault law enforcement or destroy property when stronger evidence you actually did those things doesn’t exist.
I think jurors are true Americans who understand the rich history of protest that began with the Boston Tea Party. They are smart people who value the freedom of speech and assembly, and wouldn’t just take the government’s word. They know it’s better to err on the side of freedom!
I’ve had a fairly good life. I have no kids to miss me. So if they want to come for me I’ll happily be the bitch from hell who will take on the challenge for everyone.
Careful, Hawkatana. There are 57 US criminal statutes with express extra-territorial jurisdiction provisions and about 200 additional where violations committed overseas could likely be charged in the US.
How much should we tighten up? Is it people who are saying they hope horrible things happen to certain people and threats? Or tighten up as in, don't say certain oppinons on policies? I've been wondering about people's fears about sharing oppinons.
I second that! I've been realizing many people are afraid to simply share their oppinons online out of the same fear. That's concerning, although understandable.
Seems obvious, right? I do think about how some folks are afraid to just say their oppinons online more recently. Afraid of retaliation. Different issue but related.
Well send my ass to Guantanamo bay I’ve always wanted to meet Tom Hanks and the real Biden!! I think the immigrant situation and killing us all with tariffs no healthcare and no retirement- is gonna have them pretty busy - but if they want me cool - I will pick to be first on the firing line!!
Fairly certain between Palantir scraping every public and private data source about me and whatever the American version of Lavender is, Homeland Security is already aware I'm a giant pussy.
DHS/Secret Service: terrorism stuff (like the posts) and they got better things to do than investigate every single "Kill the execs" on Bluesky from 20-something trans women who can't even afford bullets for the gun, much less the gun
I knew as soon as I saw everyone memeing that it would backfire. "obeying in advance" is not about throwing up your arms and shouting "FBI, get it here!", it's about effective resistance, whatever that looks like for you.
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I “will not OBEY”, and will spend the rest of my life in prison if I must, to protect the younger generations from fascism.
However, being nice to the fascist psychos isn't going to stop their brownshirts from disappearing us all the same…
Free speech is fn heady stuff.
I'll have a two-day head start on them, which will be more than I need. I have friends in every town and village from here to the Sudan. I speak a dozen languages - know every local custom.
I'll blend in, disappear. You'll never see me again.
You and me in a cage. For charity.
Bring your Ivan Raiklin revenge tour to my house, coward.
Bring Joe Oltmann and Seth Kessel too. I owe Seth a kidney punch.
No quarter
No fucks
No fear
That's America, Orc .
I don't regret my decision. My Opsec is straight openess, own everything I say, all from a position of strictly independent observation.
So what are we to do? Pull a Mika Brzezinski and censor ourselves?
We've already made targets of ourselves and self-sorted ourselves by being on Bluesky. Why stop now?
Damn the torpedos. Full speed ahead.
Fear is infectious.
Let it spread, and it will paralyze us all.
The only antidote is courage.
And that’s infectious, too.
👀
Used couriers on motorbikes when commanding the Opfor during a really really expensive exercise. Did not go down well.
At the same time…
Deny
Deny
Or just don’t say a word.
Either way, they will arrest who they want to and put whatever words in our mouths they want to.
Stop being afraid.
...
Probably
Don't give a shit like they can't do anything about it.
#Privacy
#ExtremePrivacy
https://bsky.app/profile/shuchancellor.online/post/3lckzymjt6k25
Wait. Shit. I just remembered these are the same guys doing for-profit prisons.
But they don't know I'm really famous New York lawyer Jerry Callo.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency
We should restrain ourselves in anticipation of being falsely accused of a crime?
You can say anything you want sure but the fallout is yours to deal with equally.
I hate whats going to happen too but murder has never been the way as it makes martyrs out of bellends
We have a duty as free men and women to say whatever we want and speak the truth consequences be damned.
Maybe its a privilige, but it is one that must be exercised or it wil be lost.
I think I made a pretty simple point myself.
"Dont obey in advance" is a phrase that's been bouncing around lately.
Don't try to scare me out of expressing myself, is probably closer to how I respond.
If the CIA are reading this though I hope we're still cool.
They are, after all, the ones who stormed the capital, and are the extremists who kill the most police
The image of an utterly humorless judge reading my dumb shit out loud in court, dissecting every word choice, is what really gives me the shivers.
I've had a good run.
They already know we’re liberals on blue sky. Like they are gonna need a reason to put us all on a list…
Did anything happen? LOL. Other app didn’t ever even delete any of it
https://youtu.be/CX9XrZ9wvVA?si=OEeZeOmSw0hgtcUv
JK. Or am I.
O simplemente aprenda cómo esconderse, de acuerdo a:
https://protonvpn.com
https://torproject.org
One of the benefits of nonviolent resistance is there is no reason to hide
That and the FBI also mainly deals with federal law enforcement. Homeland Security and Secret Service are who we should be worried about!
DHS/Secret Service: terrorism stuff (like the posts) and they got better things to do than investigate every single "Kill the execs" on Bluesky from 20-something trans women who can't even afford bullets for the gun, much less the gun
Fucking hell there really are too many to keep track of
I would almost say that's an understatement. The acronyms certainly don't help.
Since I'm doomed anyway, I may as well speak my truths.
(Which, for those who don't know, is exactly what you should not do as fascism rises, like say, right now.)
If I recall that advice came from Timothy Snyder's excellent book On Tyranny.