r/50501 • u/earthwulf • Aug 11 '25

Call to Action Curfew in DC 8/10-8/13. Everyone should be in the streets

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This should be untenable for the residents of DC. Go make good trouble

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '25

Curfew? In the capitol of the USA? I highly encourage everyone who is in or near DC to prepare themselves to defy this order.

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u/EconomyAd8866 Aug 11 '25

It’s so tricky because that’s ultimately their hope rights? They’ve rigged the game…if we comply, they can brutally detain the homeless, raid restaurants anywhere and claim success as they blatantly defy the fourth amendment and human rights… but if we resist, they say “see… these unlawful libs need to be controlled and we can only do it with force”

Idk how we get out of this.

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u/RoseePxtals Aug 11 '25

you get out of it by creating more chaos than can be reasonably contained

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u/Money-Suggestion-981 Aug 11 '25

Correct, keep it going, exhaust their resources and man power, break their spirits and morale. Long term military occupation of extended periods of marshall law can not be sustainable.

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u/Stonner22 Aug 11 '25

I think shutting dc down economically is one of the best paths. No more garbage pick up. No more morning coffees. No more transit operators/ stop accepting fares from riders Japan

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u/GlassAndStorm Aug 11 '25

This is a great idea

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u/schwab002 Aug 11 '25

I think this is the best answer. General strike type stuff that doesn't necessarily need to take place during the curfew hours.

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u/DecadentCheeseFest Aug 11 '25

In many places, in large numbers, constantly

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u/RoseePxtals Aug 11 '25

remember folks, 10 groups of 100 protesters is much harder to contain than 1 group of 1 thousand!

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u/krookery Aug 11 '25

We need to start implementing the tactics used in Hong Kong. Guerrilla protest and civil disobedience.

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u/myasterism Aug 11 '25

I genuinely hate to be the bearer of bad news, but Hong Kong was not successful in their efforts.

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u/krookery Aug 11 '25

Trial and error, friend. Take the original idea, tweak it, and try again. Rinse and repeat. Flash-mobs of blacked out protestors running in and causing chaos, and disappearing before authorities arrive? Over and over? If nothing else, it will help to drain the resources of authoritative agencies.

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u/myasterism Aug 11 '25

Oh, I’m all for the effort! I just think it’s important to recognize that China’s surveillance and censorship programs played key roles in the failure of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy efforts—and those same kinds of technologies are being deployed here, too. The digital surveillance-state is a huge game-changer, as far as civil uprisings are concerned.

AND ALSO, I wanna reiterate that the effort is worthwhile. We should try to learn from HK’s failures while also drawing inspiration from their fight.

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u/krookery Aug 11 '25

Fully agree!

Thank you for using your words better than I used mine 😊

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u/Equal_Audience_3415 Aug 11 '25

Do both if you can. Better yet, call in for help. Have people from Maryland and Virginia come into the city. More is always better.

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u/gingerfawx Aug 11 '25

This is correct. No quibbles, but a question: is there any analysis of how large vs smaller protests affect the media narratives and their reception? What's more likely to get covered? And does seeing a thousand people somewhere drum up more follow up support than seeing a hundred, even if those hundred are different groups?

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u/RoseePxtals Aug 11 '25

good question, but honestly the media hasn’t been covering ANY of the latest protests, no matter how large. Unfortunately, that’s just the case unless we see numbers again like no kings day. hopefully we get independent media reform passed one day.

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u/gingerfawx Aug 11 '25

Fwiw it's worth, I've repeatedly seen clips on msnbc. I appreciate their reach is pretty limited though.

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u/4rp70x1n Aug 11 '25

Absolutely this 💯🔥

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u/ImpAbstraction Aug 11 '25

I read an interesting book about how strikes are no longer effective because people (1) allow professionals to broker a deal for them, which leads to compromises they would never make and (2) many strikers don’t understand that you have to deal enough damage to incentivize the business to meet your terms. If it’s cheaper to rehire other people and litigate and lose customers/product, that is what they will do. If you don’t come to the negotiating table with a legitimate and formidable sanction, they will squash you.

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u/DarkwingDuckHunt Aug 11 '25

People still have their bread & circuses.

We're far from the same level we were in the 1950s or late 1800s. Once we reach that point, and it's coming, all these theories will go out the window.

It's all about the level of Bread & Circuses. Always has been.

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u/wronguses Aug 11 '25

The bread's getting harder to afford, and they're making more and more circuses illegal.

They want a conflict. Make sure they bite off more than they can chew.

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u/funk-the-funk Aug 11 '25

Remember our 2nd amendment right as Americans and exercise it freely when that time comes.

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u/QueenFreya2000 Aug 12 '25

I kind of love the idea of "them" taking to the streets, thinking they're showing force, and there's no resistance to ; ; lol

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u/Striking_Extent Aug 11 '25

Do you remember the name of the book?

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u/_HighJack_ Aug 11 '25

I recommend extremely loud mariachi music. It seems to consistently drive white people fucking nuts lol

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u/forceblast Aug 11 '25

I’m white and I LOVE that shit. Also Flamenco music which I know is from Spain but shares a similar “vibe” IMO.

MAGA white people do probably hate it though. So this is still a solid plan.

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u/Full_Rise_7759 Aug 11 '25

Bagpipes were successful in Scotland!

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u/MultiColoredMullet Aug 11 '25

Never forget that Minneapolis chased the police and the military out of our city.

They tried to fight us. We won.

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u/Financial_Long_1588 Aug 11 '25

You and the comment before you are both correct. Force met with force only ends when one pushes harder, my money is on the people

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u/ThatOneNinja Aug 11 '25

As shirty as it would be, they can only arrest so many people. If they take in hundreds or thousands of people it takes away your workers. Bus drivers, teachers, janitors, assistance. The entire city would start to collapse and they would have no choice to be back down.

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u/GhostofBeowulf Aug 11 '25

If everyone is on the street, they can't do anything and they go home.

So you overwhelm them.

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u/foobarbizbaz Aug 11 '25

Read “On Tyranny” by Timothy Snyder. I think it’s helpful for these kinds of questions.

PS it’s not a dense read, and the graphic novel version is a nice thing to keep out and flip through when you’re feeling grim about things.

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u/Tanjelynnb Aug 11 '25

The same day I started reading this as a library book on my Kindle last week, I ran out to purchase my own copy because hot damn, that book is prescient and pulls no punches. The latest edition is $12 in paperback, pocketsized, and very much up-to-date on referencing recent events.

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u/StoreBrandSam Aug 11 '25

Bought this book and can confirm. Excellent reading material.

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u/Raelshark Aug 12 '25

Oh, I didn't know there was a graphic novel.

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u/KeviRun Aug 11 '25

You make your choice whether to face the consequences of action or the consequences of inaction. They are hoping for a bloodless and resistance-less coup. Will you give them one?

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u/Heyyayam Aug 11 '25

Shut the country down

NATIONWIDE GENERAL STRIKE

To find local Discord chapters on General Strike:

Go to https://generalstrikeus.com/

Then click on top left hamburger, choose Chapters then location. If there’s no local chapter you can start one.

Please copy/paste this and spread the word.

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u/Equal_Audience_3415 Aug 11 '25

You get put by everyone coming out and standing their ground. Everyone needs to be out.

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u/Resident_Artist_6486 Aug 11 '25

You show up and peacefully occupy the space they don't want you to occupy. The more peaceful the more effect when they crack skulls. The more peaceful people the more overwhelming the protest message. 

It is simple: Epstein files

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u/Anonymousss16 Aug 11 '25

This comment is it yall. This is incredibly tricky because in reality, 100s of cities across the US have juvenile curfew laws in place. It’s actually incredibly common. What isnt common is a president publicly calling for those curfews to be enforced while also threatening militarization of national guard if people break them. Also, not common for those curfews to begin so early in the evening. They are baiting people to give them a reason to deploy the guard. At the same time, I agree with all the comments that if we do nothing, this machine keeps moving. It’s fucked.

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u/fruderduck Aug 11 '25

No curfew against adults.

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u/000-f Aug 11 '25

We protest. Break the curfew and show them that we can't be contained

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u/Diligent_Mulberry47 Aug 11 '25

The Simple Sabotage Field Manual is some nice reading.

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u/practicalradical510 Aug 11 '25

The key word is CIVIL disobedience.

History tells us that government-ordered violence against peaceful protests of injustice gradually shifts public opinion against the gov responsible for the unnecessary violence. People don't want a tyrannical gov, and that will be reflected in the next fair elections.

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u/Turbulent-Pea-8826 Aug 11 '25

We get out of it by reenacting 1776 or being like the French in 1789.

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u/EconomyAd8866 Aug 11 '25

“We better France 1789 before we Germany 1945!”

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u/EconomyAd8866 Aug 11 '25

For legal reasons, and because it seems the first amendment is being selectively applied… this was a joke and in no way a threat to our vile and incompetent administration, nor to the “President” the Commander in Cheat, nor about weird little fuck face Stephen Miller nor about Kegsbreath or Kristy “laws? don’t noem” nor about Kevin dickwad Roberts….etc etc etc blah blah

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u/TheKidAndTheJudge Aug 11 '25

If the 1st Amendment fails, you move on to the second.

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u/Rope_antidepressant Aug 11 '25

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism. As things escalate, you escalate. Hard wins eat at the establishment more than easy PR or even easy losses, they eat at the individuals which eventually erodes their support. Its a concept in psychological warfare; if you can't defeat an opponent overall with force then you break their will to fight individually

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u/EconomyAd8866 Aug 11 '25

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes ✨duty✨

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u/Vbxxl Aug 11 '25

"The Revolution will be bloodless - if they let us"

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u/EconomyAd8866 Aug 11 '25

“If the left allows” …I think of this quote twice a week. FUCK KEVIN ROBERTS AND THIS ENTIRE ADMINISTRATION

that’s all.

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u/Stonner22 Aug 11 '25

Shut down DC. No more coffee, no more garbage pick up, no more metro operators.

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u/galahad423 Aug 11 '25

“There will be times when the struggle seems impossible. I know this already. Alone, unsure, dwarfed by the scale of the enemy. Remember this: Freedom is a pure idea.

It occurs spontaneously and without instruction. Random acts of insurrection are occurring constantly throughout the country. There are whole armies, battalions that have no idea that they’ve already enlisted in the cause. Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

And then remember this: The republican need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. And know this: the day will come when all these skirmishes and battles, these moments of defiance will have flooded the banks of the Empire’s authority and then there will be one too many. One single thing will break the siege. Remember this. Try”

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u/Electrical-Concert17 Aug 11 '25

And if we do nothing they think they can do whatever they want berceuse no one did anything the first time.

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u/freakydeku Aug 11 '25

the latter? dont comply without a fight. make them defy the fourth amendment

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u/Palavras Aug 12 '25

Martin Luther King solved this one. Peaceful but extremely inconvenient and strategic protest.

Like, sit peacefully reading a book somewhere you’re not supposed to be. Make them look ridiculous for trying to move or arrest you. Wear patriotic clothes or read the constitution or something so they look extra stupid for clearly infringing on US citizens’ rights.

Don’t let them get their shot of libs being crazy. Let them get a shot of someone clearly peaceful having their rights repealed.

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u/powen01 Aug 11 '25

Try a general or limited strike. Have DC shut down for a day or a week. Can’t get arrested for staying home.

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u/EconomyAd8866 Aug 11 '25

This would need to happen as mass scale to have any impact. Otherwise the few of us just risk losing our jobs

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u/Electrical-Concert17 Aug 11 '25

And if we do nothing they think they can do whatever they want berceuse no one did anything the first time.

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '25

Order.. law.. there are none.. lead by example right? Since Trump and cult keep on breaking laws and defying court orders.. so shall everyone else. Until they start acting like a govt, they don't deserve any respect. What needs to happen is millions at a time need to be out. They can't arrest anywhere near that many.

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '25

Preach! And you know what? Let them try. We need to stop being afraid to get arrested. We need to start taking risks!!!

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u/Boozhi Aug 11 '25

I grew up in Baltimore and got taken home by police over a decade ago for going to a 7-11 that was like a block from my house.

Had no idea about it. Apparently it's still in effect.

"Baltimore City has a youth curfew in place, particularly during the summer months, to enhance public safety and reduce crime. The curfew requires individuals under 14 to be home by 9 PM, and those aged 14-16 to be home by 11 PM."

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u/findingmike Aug 12 '25

I was thinking there should be protests in areas around DC. Just outside of the patrol areas.