I don't know about stop in their tracks, but it will slow them down and save lives.
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Idk why more people aren't advocating for using the second amendment to take down the tyrannical government like gun nuts have always dreamed of
While this is definitely a positive, be aware that ICE is just the latest outgrowth of a fundamentally broken system where a small proportion of people control the rules by which we all operate and the violence that compels us to follow them. I hope people don't stop at merely voting with ballots and wallets because history shows that doesn't work for fundamental change, so I think we need more action like step 3 here.
I think we should try to organize a run on the banks. The bootlickers won't participate, so they'll be the losers when the banks don't have the money to cover their deposits.
If everyone moves their money to credit unions, not only will you get better rates, you'll fuck the status quo. Imagine the aneurysm djt will have when he causes a colossal bank failure.
I've wanted to do this for a long time, really, truly.
When I look, credit unions advertise great savings rates for balances of up to $1,000. After that, it's depressingly small: 0.05% or 0.10% vs. competitive rates of 3%+ which I currently get at my evil-corp-mega-bank. 3% doesn't even come close to inflation and fractions of a percent feels like pissing my money away while saving for the pipe dream of owning my own home. Maybe I'm misreading something? "Finance" is not something I'm particularly confident about.
Do you know of any tools that would help people shop for ethical, local credit unions? I don't trust any results from a web search at face value these days and I don't have the patience to research every result to see how legit it is and do a background check to find that their board or whatever is run by fascists or something.
I found my credit union through nerd wallet. It is not local to me, but has reciprocal ATM agreements with credit unions that are local to me. The only hassles I have run into have been related to large deposits by check (inheritance) and even that wasn't too bad (had to go to a local credit union when they were open and talk to a teller). Mine doesn't cap my interest rate.
This is an excellent idea. I've wanted to do this for a while. I will start researching local credit unions tonight!
I don't love the QR codes, it would be easy for someone to create a modified poster with malicious QR links. It should be human readable web addresses.
The part where it's suggested to give your full address when calling law-makers could backfire, no? Do you really need to do that to get the call tallied?
Look at all the energy that has to be expended just to MAYBE slow the goose-stepping slide into hell a little bit, when all it took to keep the January 6 mouth-breathers from power, was to have gone and voted one Tuesday in November.
Divide-and-conquer negative propaganda works so easily on so many weak, tepid, achingly pure little minds, with their passively blood-soaked hands.
Voting different definitely would've helped for very little cost, but let's remember that ICE has been around for a while and the Democratic party has long supported them too. I hope our ambitions don't stop at merely going back to the old status quo, but we instead aim for, say, abolishing ICE altogether, or even abolishing the system that requires so many armed people to enforce things most of us don't even want.
Yeah that would have stopped it just like electing Biden stopped it, and electing Obama stopped it before that
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