Lets also not forget cyberwarfare, ranging from external to internal sources, ranging from doxxing people to invented news events with AI gen/manipulated images/audio/video, all the way up to knocking out public infrastructure, locking down hardware of local gov / businesses / banks with ransomware, etc.

Random, unofficial people are capable of either most or all of that.

Oh and of course if shit really kicks off, other countries will probably do the CIA's signature move of funding arming and training various groups of people.

How do you still manage that in the current (and worsening) surveillance state? I mean Luigi showed its possible for a lone wolf but I have to question being able to organize without being known. If you are caught organizing an antifa org then you're also uber boned.

I can think of a funnier map: Canada taking NY, Washington DC, ... and Mexico (re)taking the west coast. Imagine if Texas ended up being again part of Mexico.

It's also why we need to avoid violence and make the regime stumble into itself.

Here's the thing: It's not going to fucking do that; it's going to stumble into fascism. Fascism is stupid and incompetent, but it absolutely does not and will not fizzle out without a resistance as committed as the fascists themselves. I mean, which fascist movement in history "stumbled into itself?"

avoid violence

implying there has ever not been violence or that the current amount of violence by right wingers and the US government isn't already, currently, right this fucking second even worse than before Trump's first term

nonviolent resistance is an important front but it alone won't be enough, I fear.

If you think this, you should talk to your average republican voter. They will suck that orange cock until every bit of their wealth and ability to afford food is gone, and blame whoever fox news points a finger at that day.

Hard to hide from a drone.

There may have to be a free-for-all hellscape phase before getting to an organized something-better phase in the hit video game super mushyroom kingdom.

I mean, I dread whatever violence is upcoming. But the reality is liberation has never happened with solely nonviolent means. Even King and Ghandi were buttressed by groups that used a variety of tactics, including violence, to force the state to come to the table with them.

This isn't to advocate indiscriminate or senseless violence, but if your resistance group is nonviolent, and condemn any violence by other resistance groups, they have severely limited the range of tactics acceptable for use, and cede the power of justified violence to those in power only.

There's a good book called "How Nonviolence Protects the State" that goes into depth on this, you should check it out.

I'm pretty sure we all agree that violence is a bad solution. The problem is we're all out of good ones. What are the alternatives at this point?

So what did Occupy Wall Street accomplish? What about the March for our Lives protests? What about the BLM riots? What did Bernie Sanders winning every single county in the 2016 WV Democrat Primary accomplish?

Violence works, otherwise there wouldn't be any. We've put up a whole system of laws and police and investigators and courts and prisons in order to provide an alternative to violence. And even then, that system is itself backed up with a real threat of violence as well as its occasional localized deployment.

Yesterday's "pep rally" where none of the military leaders dragged in had anything good to say about it suggests that there is not the overwhelming military support that Trump wants there to be. There are plenty of examples of far less powerful local forces successfully standing up to superpowers. Afghanistan is one. Wallachia is another.

When the entire federal government and many state governments have wholly abandoned the systems put together to avoid violence, and are in fact using the husks of those systems to apply violence to their opponents, we've already crossed the Rubicon.

Hi, my name is ICE, off to a death camp for you, according to me and my paramilitary goon squad who broke into your house/apartment at 3 am.

Don't bother arguing, that's what the gag and spit hood are for.

Violence is already here.

Thoughts and prayers are not an effective defense.

I would suggest either hiding, very, very well, which is probably impossible for most social media addicts who've publicized half of their existence, and for morons who think that their VPN isn't keeping logs that can all be subpoenaed by the government...

Or maybe some kind of actual local community organizing, involving you know, actually speaking with your neighbors in meatspace, getting to know them, forming at bare minimum a plan for how to deal with say, food shortage, brown out/black out, etc.