[xivzgrev]

So in this metaphor, is

-trump a B2 (aims to enrich himself, while overall a net negative to society)

-his voters are helpless (by voting for him, they don't actually gain anything)

-and intelligent people, including myself, are mostly sitting on the sidelines, save attending a no kings protest.

A few are valiantly fighting (filing court cases to check trumps power grabs, newsom pushing prop 50, journalists / media folks calling out the emperor has no clothes)

The only way this country gets saved from Trump is either the intelligent get off their duff and start fighting, or the helpless wake up and turn on Trump

[komali2]

I am sorry to say that according to the metaphor of the PDF, your resistance probably falls into either "helpless" or "stupid," since it doesn't really do anything to check Trump's power (ICE agents still freely roam and abduct people at gunpoint, SNAP will run out and judgement induced distribution is blocked by Trump) and at best do nothing to him or anyone else or help him by giving him ammunition to justify further domestic action. Or if you're just sitting on the sidelines, then under the model, you're not defined as intelligent, but helpless, whereas his supporters are stupid.

According to the model I would class legal efforts and some media efforts as intelligent or banditry (media is self serving; in the end it loves Trump for the headlines), and a protest as maybe intelligent but maybe also helpless.

Inarguably intelligent might be something like following ICE movements and warning neighborhoods when they're coming, or establishing mutual aid food systems for people whose SNAP is about to run out. Or wasting ICE time somehow through civil disobedience to reduce their effectiveness.

[heresie-dabord]

> your resistance probably falls into either "helpless" or "stupid," since it doesn't really do anything to check Trump's power

Some combination of "helpless", "lazy", and "stupid", like the narrator in Niemöller's poem "First They Came." [1]

It is to do nothing except to fret (and to post on social media), despite knowing that eventually no one will be spared by energetically unethical monsters.

[1] _ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_They_Came