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Maybe it’s because I’m just very sensitive to these sorts of issues but when somebody fires a black man because they think he’s “woke”, it makes me believe that they didn’t fire him because he was woke. They fired him because he was black.
2nd. Is Trump just out there firing the people that will stand up to him ? If yes, we are in for a world of pain, this may not be how dictators are made, but it’s how they sustain their power 
How is this even a question? Yes, of course that's what he's doing. He's literally following the playbook right wing think tanks wrote before the election. They've stated openly that this is all part of their plan. Purge the government of everyone but loyalists, and then act with impunity because the people whose job is to act as a check on executive power will rubber stamp everything.
God, Americans should be panicking right now and you're all just sleepwalking into this.
Panicked and panicking, I felt helpless
Alone, there's not much you can do. That's why you need to organize. Find other people and groups to join with. Not only do you have more power as a group, but you have other people so you feel less alone and isolated.
Organize. Resist.
Yes, but also all of these local movements organize on Facebook 🙄
I can assure you, facebook is only a public face in many instances. much organizing is done in the backwoods of signal and briar.
Pardon my ignorance, but what is Briar?
all questions are good!
briar (wikipedia)
briar (homepage)
online organizing has an important place and, over the last 8 years, people have gotten much better at organizing safely online.
Awesome, thank you so much!
This. Facebook is just an entry point.
This is exactly why organizing in small ways is so important. You need to get plugged in, get connected, get into the right people's contact lists, get onto the signal group chats. That's where you're going to hear about the stuff that's going down. Thats where you're going to get the chance to stand up and say "I can help with that"