What can YOU do?

[elisi]

So, I've been collecting links.

First of all, Hillary Clinton’s Popular Vote Victory Will Likely Keep Growing, and The electoral college doesn't vote until December 19th:

The Electoral College Was Designed to Prevent Trump. You Can Make This Happen.

Follow the link for more info, but very simply how do you accomplish this? Easy: Write to Republican electors in states that went red, and beg them to vote their conscience.

Goodness knows that if they declare Hillary President you might descend into civil war, but it's worth a shot? At least you will have done everything in your power. And SPREAD THE WORD!!!

There is also a Change.org petition that you can sign.

More info on dates & how the system works here.


However, this is a slim hope. So, how to prepare & start fighting back?

How to set up an anti-fascist group

Autocracy: 6 Rules for Survival

And finally, two tweets about what you can do to make minorities feel safer:

Here's a list of things white friends have done/can do which actually make me feel safer:

— Silicon (@siliconphospho) November 12, 2016

Women, immigrants, PoC, Muslims, LGBTQ people, + others likely to suffer under right-wing admin share survival tips https://t.co/1DyV2xgc2E

— Roq(in) around the🎄 (@roqchams) November 13, 2016

Edit. Bit rushed due to lunch break. But - I think that having a dreamwidth backup is very useful. Crossposting is faffy, but considering all the hacking & monitoring, things could get difficult, and no one knows how much Trump's stooges would try to curtail communication or protests. But then dreamwidth is based in the US... I don't know. I've never had to think about these things in all seriousness before. But. I remember anniesj getting a visit from the Secret Service... Just be careful. <3

ETA: 5 Ways You Can Fight Back Against Donald Trump by @LOLGOP

Comments

[elisi]

I've edited it now, but I didn't see it as boycotting, but as protecting oneself from possible hacking...

(At work, not here, replying in more detail later.)

[thisbluespirit]

Oh, sorry. That's not how the excerpt read to me at all. Having a back up is only sensible in this day and age! I was startled to see you highlight something like that.

Sorry! I am a bit wary of this Russian-paranoia (scary as their gov't is!) that flavours some DW-LJ arguments and, well, you know... ♥

ETA: I deleted my previous comment, because it's probably not fair now either to you or to OP (if taken out of context) to have the quote still there like that. (But not to be funny!)

[elisi]

Oh, sorry. That's not how the excerpt read to me at all. Having a back up is only sensible in this day and age! I was startled to see you highlight something like that.
I hadn't even thought of it in that light, since - as you say - I'd probably be the last person to tell people to get off LJ. *clings*

Sorry! I am a bit wary of this Russian-paranoia (scary as their gov't is!) that flavours some DW-LJ arguments and, well, you know... ♥
Well dreamwidth is US owned, so there's no safe place, really, if they start cracking down.

ETA: I deleted my previous comment, because it's probably not fair now either to you or to OP (if taken out of context) to have the quote still there like that. (But not to be funny!)
Fair nuff! ♥

[thisbluespirit]

I suspect if people start hacking into sites, it won't matter who owns what, they'll get in. It's a good but sobering point to bear it in mind - if only to remember people who might be in more precarious positions and not endanger them. :-/

And on that scary thought, let's continue clinging to LJ. *hugs* (Or Dreamwidth, if needs be!)

[elisi]

if only to remember people who might be in more precarious positions and not endanger them. :-/
*nods* What a world we live in. :(

And on that scary thought, let's continue clinging to LJ. *hugs* (Or Dreamwidth, if needs be!)
Yeah - I love LJ too much for words, so here's to hoping.

[promethia_tenk]

Well dreamwidth is US owned, so there's no safe place, really, if they start cracking down.
I will say this for the US: freedom of speech is the nearest thing we have to an absolute right, and this is pretty much agreed upon throughout the political spectrum You are not allowed to preemptively censor information (you can be liable after the fact for things you publish that are untrue, but the government cannot prevent you from publishing something) and the first amendment, true to its title, tends to supercede all other considerations in the courts (again, wherever you fall on the political spectrum). I do not think Donald Trump's threats against the press are going to go far, and I am in general terrified about how much other Republicans have folded when faced with him.

That said, I kind of agree with the argument that the Russians are not likely to care about what we say. Phones from Chinese manufactures (as opposed to phones that are merely manufactured in China, which is basically all of them) are starting to become a thing here, and you hear concerns about 'oh no, but what if the Chinese government is using them to spy on us!' I'm like, what the hell does the Chinese government care about where I'm buying my coffee? There is no information that the Chinese government can collect about me that they can use to any kind of consequence in my life. The NSA, however, I am very concerned about spying on me . . .

Which is all a very long and rambly way of saying that it probably doesn't matter too much where you post and, if these things concern you, maybe consider a donation to the Electronic Frontier Foundation?

[elisi]

Crossposting is the answer I guess. And hoping no one gets reported a la anniesj. (Yes, nothing came of that as such, BUT... She's still got a FBI file etc.)