I'm in the US and as we all know they're definitely planning on using ICE at the polling booths for voter intimidation. I look quite democrat/liberal (long hair, below average body hair, slightly chubby with low muscle, straight teeth) so I'll probably be a target for it. I've been thinking of dressing up as a Republican so I'll be less likely to be targeted. I don't wanna scare people or get in trouble so I'm not going to do something as obvious as wearing a Confederate flag. I also can't change my appearance that much so I don't get flagged for my ID. What I do to look like a Republican without scaring others or getting in trouble?
19 Comments
andrewrgross@slrpnk.net · 16 pts · 30d
First: It's not like ice are going to walk up to white girls with blue hair and be like, 'No voting for you, liberal.' They don't need to assess anyone to guess how they're going to vote: the plan is to just reduce overall turnout at voting sites in places with a lot of Democratic voters.
The way I expect this to go is for Maga folks to drive into big cities and station themselves outside voting sites in poor, non-white neighborhoods and pretend they're 'looking out for non citizens who might try to vote'. The goal is to create hassles and long lines so that people who have limited time decide to leave instead of wait.
If you are able to arrive early and don't mind waiting you'll be fine. But a better response is to contact your county and volunteer as an election worker. If you do, you can help enforce distance requirements for observers, make sure there are no bottlenecks, make sure there is seating available, keep the line moving in good spirits, etc.
If you just make voting smooth and efficient as a volunteer, they lose.
Vanth@reddthat.com · 10 pts · 30d
Blue jeans, brown shoes (boots if you have them), t-shirt with at least one US flag on it somewhere. You can also substitute for a Dallas Cowboys or the Buccanneers t-shirt.
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 30d
This is how i camouflaged. Add in a trucker cap from the gas station for the long hair. The down side is sometimes conservative people will try to talk to you as one of their own.
TiredTiger@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 30d
I'm not a fan of electoralism, but it's worth pointing out that ICE does not have the manpower to patrol every polling place. I don't think they could even cover every polling place in a large metropolitan area, let alone an entire state. They've only got like 10,000 guys. That's not that many in a country with over 300 million people.
undrwater@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 30d
Punisher T-shirt ought to be sufficient.
lichengeese@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 30d
Do early voting, or request an absentee ballot. The latter can be hand delivered if you are paranoid about the mail
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 30d
Damn, Americans checking for body hair at polling booths now
helix@feddit.org · 2 pts · 30d
Start exercising now!
ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 30d
USA flag trucker cap sounds like the easiest one to me
Astronut@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 30d
Just put on a MAGA hat and pretend you’re the stupidest sumbitch you can be!
dnick@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 18d
Because one thing less useful than voting is not voting as a form of protest. And even less useful than that is encouraging others to do the same.
Voting one time may seem useless, but voting consistently in an informed direction and encouraging others to do the same 'is' useful. It's just not obviously useful quickly.
The only thing useful about not voting is in the hope that things will fall apart more quickly and we can get to some good for collapse and rebuilding, but then what? Still don't vote? Hope for a benign group that takes over and somehow does allow voting?
PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@anarchist.nexus · -1 pts · 30d
Nah, there are definitely Republicans that look like you. If you want to look like a "Republican", show up in plain, unlabeled clothes, except maybe wear a shirt or cap with an AmeriKKKan flag.
Better yet, don't give these settler-colonialist fucks the gift of your time and attention. And apparently, you're even possibly risking your own safety to do this? It's just not worth your time and safety, especially since the whole
system is precisely engineered to be immune to the political will of the working class.
TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 30d
No you should vote
PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@anarchist.nexus · -4 pts · 30d
— Voting is Not Harm Reduction: An Indigenous Perspective, emphasis mine.
dnick@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 30d
Not voting because it's not a good harm reduction strategy is just another way of saying it won't do any good so don't bother.
If you are trying to present a nuanced argument against some specific reason 'for' voting, more power to you, but you are seriously coming across as a worthless bot put in place to recommend not voting wherever possible.
PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@anarchist.nexus · 1 pts · 30d
Yes I literally am trying to say that. Like why the fuck should I vote if it won't do any good? Why should I do anything in the whole wide world if it won't do any good?
I'd rather "come across" as a bot than be a selectively born-yesterday shitlib. Anarchists and other revolutionary socialists have been saying this message for a hundred years since before the Internet was a thing, and it's never been more valid than it is now.
dnick@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 30d
Still, go out and vote
PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@anarchist.nexus · 1 pts · 30d
I would literally rather die
dnick@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 18d
Probably about as useful as not voting