First, contact as many people as you can, especially local ICE watch orgs. A lot have hotlines which you may be able to find with a web search. Next start recording. Delay as long as possible. Ask for a warrant, stay calm and maybe try to negotiate as a stall tactic. This will hopefully give community members time to arrive and record or hopefully apply pressure if they are brave and numerous enough. It is possible to intimidate and drive them back with enough numbers.

All else fails at this point I would not fight back and allow yourself to be arrested. Most citizens being arrested right now are being released. The courts are slow but still upholding the law for now. If you are not a citizen then your options might not be as good. Fighting back is likely to get you injured or killed but if you have an escape route it could be worthwhile, especially if you can escape in areas where motor vehicles can’t go. Their level of fitness is generally low so they can’t give chase for long, and as long as you’re not high profile you might be safe once you get away, though you’ll likely need to lie low somewhere.

If you’re asking what to do about the current political situation in a broader sense then I have different answers.

I’ll note that kissing is not culturally universal. Remember that colonialism has made a lot of European ideas and norms seem way more universal than they are.

That’s already the way the world works today, and violent people will certainly continue to exist, though some of the incentive to be violent won’t exist without the ability to accumulate infinite wealth. But the key difference is the state won’t forbid you from organizing community self-defense as needed.

I believe I already answered this? There is no ownership without a state to enforce your claim.

Same way animals do. You don’t need to enforce something that doesn’t exist in the first place.

If there’s no state to stop me from building a garden on some billionaire’s ranch, private property no longer exists.

It has some advantages but I think it will make public services even more subordinated to the interests of the wealthy. Since they would have almost sole discretion on where that money goes.

I’ve never seen real evidence of bots impersonating people here but it’s hard to know. Maybe admins would have more insights.

There are a few ad bots that sneak in but they usually get a ban pretty quickly.

Sounds like something a bot would say!

I was worried about this with CECOT but I think most everyone ended up being released from there? Does anyone know if other American deportees are still being held there?

Unfortunately, I’ve seen very little reporting on other foreign prison camps, so I don’t know what the conditions there are like and who is being held vs released etc. I know some prisoners were released by Costa Rica and allowed to claim asylum there but I believe others are still being held.

Someone in the media really needs to dig into this more. Or if anyone has seen such reporting, please link it.

The obvious solution here is to include frozen gametes in the ship’s cargo to increase the diversity of the population. It would be culturally easiest with frozen sperm but if necessary you could include eggs as well, provided people are willing to be surrogate mothers.

I feel like most anarchists identify as socialists, so I’m not sure about that one.

What would be an example of a non-socialist but leftist school of thought?

I agree. This person is a conservative. The other “conservatives” are just fascists who inherited the label and it no longer fits.

What should be and what is are two different things. I’m just saying that in the US at least, much of the carceral state is privatized.

Are you sure it’s publicly owned?

So most of these are on the front range (which is ass) but it’s interesting that it goes to grand junction. Any stops along the way?

Cat smol.

Car drivers in the last two years killed about 80,000 people in the US. That is of a similar scale to the murders in Gaza. So your point that this is unimportant is off base.

Most people don’t pay much or any attention to local politics which makes advertising and incumbency very powerful. Most people literally just vote for the name they recognize from TV or mailers.

It would take a large increase in political consciousness to fix this.

Flight requires extreme adaptations that make terrestrial life much more difficult. It’s hard to evolve it and once you do, going back will be difficult. Especially when competing with a bunch of animals that haven’t completely warped their bodies for a totally different lifestyle.

On isolated islands without mammals, many birds do begin to revert to a terrestrial strategy. But the mammal body plan is just better for this, and when mammals have reached such places, flightless birds have almost immediately experienced population collapse.