Tattoos are barcodes.
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We are still in this together, but "this" is going to be real different in the very near future. This demands a different kind of "we."
The French Resistance during Nazi occupation played important roles delivering downed Allied airmen back to safety, supplying military intelligence, and acts of sabotage.
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It's time.
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So copy the tats of a local cop matching your build and get scanned
Ew. I've seen cop tattoos.
Not the white power ones under their clothes. The dumb tribal ones on their arms you can get washables of for pennies
That's very clever. I like it. Let's distribute temporary tattoos of known maga ice folks at rallies.
Is that just days n daze on mom or is that symbol used for something in the wider anarchy community?
That's the international squatter's symbol, popular in anarchist movements, as well as just anyone that thinks abandoned land should be free.
But don't cover your tattoos?
Do these people not understand how identifiable tattoos are?
I think your brain is playing a trick on you
Oh my God I'm illiterate
Acceptance is the first step
Skin makeup over existing tattoos, then get one of those temporary water-decal-thing tattoos of some random tribal design on the forearm or something.
Bam. Evidence that the person in whatever photos/videos that were captured isn't you.
What about those fake tattoo sleeves what are like stockings with the print on them? No idea how well these cover the existing tats tho
That might be better for skin coverage too, teargas and pepper pray aren't just eye/sinus irritants, they affect the skin as well.
Until the fabric absorbs the chemicals and is a constant source against your skin until removed
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Put a piece of cloth in your shoe, like a small folded dish towel. People can recognize your walk and identify you just as easy as seeing your face.
Arrive and leave from a large crowd if you can, assume you are being followed there and back and change into your "hero" costume in a restroom or other area off camera.
So 30 people went into this toilet, 30 came out but only one of them changed. We got em.
Think carefully about where you change.
Not 'people' but AI-assisted gait analysis. Scan of video footage identifies points on body, tracks movement of those points through space, represents this as output of an algorithm, which generates a result (e.g. a long sequence of numbers like a barcode) which is unique to you. They cannot i.d. you by name and address unless they have your biometrics on record but it is a potential way to identify you just like fingerprints or dna and will stay on record and might hurt you in future.
Shoes also leave very identifiable prints, so buy secondhand burners with cash.
this is all great advice when you're planning actual resistance, not cosplaying revolutionaries for social media
I’d rather highlight TripTiks than listen to your bullshit.
okay. then go do that.
Just wanted to make sure you knew at least one person who doesn’t deserve to be publicly executed for stupidity recognized your comment for what it is.
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Step 1 is already illegal in my country on a protest.
God forbid we break the law
Yep, we are just about past the point of caring about laws. I know I was done after J6 pardons. That told me laws are out the window now.
I get the sentiment, but depending on the particular activity, not breaking the law is an advantage. A peaceful protest in front of a government building following all laws makes it harder to justify breaking up, especially breaking up violently. It's a PR game just as much as it's a social action game. To be clear, though, this doesn't cover every instance, but there are times where following the rules to the letter is beneficial...just not always.
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Motorcycle helmet or full-face bike helmet. Problem solved.
What, folks are on me all the fucking time to wear one. If they want to complain that I'm complying, that sounds like a them problem.
Not in Germany. The law is very abstract. Technically, it does not even allow you to take stuff with you that is supposed to hide your face. On the other hand... Even a T Shirt can be used to hide the face...
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After sonic/microwave attack in Serbia, you need to take headphones and a physical barrier to shelter behind, I dunno, an umbrella backed with tinfoil? One of those foil emergency blankets?
People said they could feel their eyes vibrating, I wonder how effective headphones would actually be.
What's scary to think is that whatever it is, it's probably flirting with the threshold of very serious harm on a large scale. Imagine all the literal skeletons in the development process for this.
Whole thing seemed more of a weapons test/advert than an actual interest in crowd dispersal too. That wasn't an unruly crowd they used it on.
If vibrating eyes is true, the noise is probably in the 30-80 Hz range, somewhere like an idling truck engine or a higher end subwoofer.
That type of noise is rarely heard by ears, but felt as vibrations in the body, and is mostly registered as physical discomfort and stress. At volume it would probably be enough to be very uncomfortable, but not necessarily immediately dangerous, it's probably on par with working in a large engine room.
Hearing protection will help filter any accompanying noise, and should help keeping your head clear even under the added stress. It will do little to lessen the low frequencies.
Low frequency noise has to be reflected through considerable mass and/or stiffness. Think walls or three pane windows, but also human bodies. Maybe forming ranks and rotating members could be a useful tactic?
Absolutely no help at all.
how about stay away from crowds? one of these days, you're all going to be cattle led to the slaughter. a much wiser strategy would be to act in squads, spread out, and targeting things that actually throw a monkey wrench in the system.
The problem is that, in D&D terms, you lose action economy that way. A thousand rats might only deal one damage each but all of them at once would obliterate even hardened adventurers.
If people split into groups then yea, the police and whatever would need to prioritize, but the groups could also be handled more safely. Two or three VERY LARGE crowds would be great, but “squads” of even twenty people, against a militarized force, would just be easy pickings. And it’s an exponential loss(just as much as adding people is an exponential gain) so it would be incredibly risky.
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