Better than nothing. Also not self defense. Hit the gym. Get a gun. Go train at a gym BJJ, MMA whatever but do something. Use the hate for fascists to drive training. I’m so tired of seeing protestors get knocked out trying to act tough. Nothing sets the effort back like watching your side get beat repeatedly. We can act high and morally superior but if we reject the basics then it’s all hollow. You need to support all of it with some type of power and power comes from winning at whatever you do. If we’re protesting only because they’re letting us because they haven’t become more violent yet then we’re not actually protesting.
inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
You’re going to use some bog standard self defense class against multiple armed, stupid, violent ICE agents?
Yeah, that will end well.
If you’re going to do anything you’d better off going to a protest, finding like minded individuals and then deciding where to go from there.
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
AA5B@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Something may be better than nothing but escalating without hope isn’t better.
It’s a bad idea to attempt force against overwhelming force.
You’re much more likely to get good results by surviving and following through in the courts. Your strength is knowing your rights, filming everything, ensuring it’s clear on video when those rights are validated.
For example, you may not be able to physically prevent an illegal search. But you can film it. You can make it clear that you do don’t consent to a search (while not physically interfering with their illegal activity). You can ask about their warrant. You can even ask for their grounds for suspicion. When they are on video violating that, it’s pretty damaging evidence. That won’t help you in the short term, but it will help in the future. If there is due process, you may get any evidence obtained illegally dropped. You can follow through with a civil rights proceeding. It won’t be fast or easy but you’re much more likely to eventually get justice, than any fantasies of violent resistance
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 hours ago
Need classes on insurgency