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A comment on ICE's Tool to Monitor Phones in Neighborhoods. Parent comment

Re:ICE's Tool to Monitor Phones in Neighborhoods by ImPostingOnHN on Thursday January 08, 2026 @03:00PM (#46545693)
> History shows that meaningful resistance often begins with simple nonviolent acts like refusing unjust rules or asserting basic dignity rather than a lone person reaching for a gun.

I'm having trouble coming up with many recent examples where non-state resistance to authoritarianism succeeded in defeating it, regardless of method. Myanmar? Hong Kong? Xinjiang? Iran? North Korea?

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Re:ICE's Tool to Monitor Phones in Neighborhoods by noncoml on Thursday January 08, 2026 @03:01PM (#46545698)
Rosa Parks?
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Re:ICE's Tool to Monitor Phones in Neighborhoods by mothballed on Thursday January 08, 2026 @03:11PM (#46545814)
Non-state actor YPG fought off ISIS authoritarians and held off Assad authoritarian in Kurdish Syria.
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Re:ICE's Tool to Monitor Phones in Neighborhoods by tjnaylor on Thursday January 15, 2026 @11:13AM (#46634721)
Honduras leading up to the 2021 elections was able to oust an authoritarian president Juan Orlando Hernandez (the same recently pardoned by Trump) through peaceful protests - mostly targeted at blocking major roadways between cities with burning tires. This was a sustained campaign over months, I don't see US citizens as prepared for something like that honestly, but logistically that's a recent example that came to mind.
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