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Jesus Christ, this conversation is scary. I wish y’all good luck that none of these precautions are necessary.

As someone in a blue state where governance is sane, I’m “raw dogging it” (effing offensive slang term but now I’ve used it once in my life and can rest easy) and bringing my kids (teens). M also going to the local demonstration rather than go into the city for a big one - to some extent it’s a numbers game

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TheFriar@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I’m in one of the bluest. Our police and FBI are not “blue.” American spy forces and “committee on anti-American activities”-ass motherfuckers are not kind or just, no matter the voting tendencies of the populace.

How many decades have we seen far right terror groups overlooked for anti-capitalist leftists? The left threatens the status quo, the right fortifies it. The blue and red dichotomy is the status quo. The democrats support the genocide in Palestine. Going against that status quo makes you not safe from government crackdowns, the party in power is completely irrelevant.

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- MangoCats@feddit.it ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  If your “blue leaders” are any good, they enforce psych profiles on police recruitment that ensures you don’t have a force full of racist authoritarian law in their own hands radicals, at least for the forces they control - feds may be a different story.
  
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  - GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    remind me again, how’s that working out in LA?
    
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    MangoCats@feddit.it ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Mixed results. Implying: blue leadership could be doing better in that area.
    
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YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Doesn’t matter of the state is blue, the police force is going to do everything they can to fuck you anyways.

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GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I’m happy that you felt safe in a peaceful protest, but keep in mind that stingrays can be operated from airplanes at 10,000 ft. you likely would never hear them at a noisy protest and it would be the size of a grain of rice in the sky.

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NWIBiHigh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
You say kids. Youve rawdogged more than once probably

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- PTSDwarrior@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Nowadays millennials and Gen Z use raw dogging to indicate going either without protection to their electronic devices, or foregoing the use of devices like on a long plane ride.
  
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  - AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Yes, very cringey slang for going without protection. Originally from pregnancy or STDs, but now also from boredom. In my case, without the protection of a mask or leaving my wallet and phone at home. I even drove and parked in a local public garage, so would be traceable in several different ways
    
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billwashere@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
The fact that this conversation is even necessary is to me more scary.

I used to think the Bush era was bad. I’d gladly trade that for now.

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- NikkiDimes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Bush was just a goofy lil war criminal compared to this shit
  
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  - billwashere@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Only 😏
    
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