I am not shy when it comes to mentioning that out of my family (all Venezuelans), I am the only one that didn't fall for the alt-right Trump pipeline. I mean, very briefly in 2008-2011, I was a libertarian/ancap before that was a mainstream and quit when I found that the AnCap meet ups I was seeing online looked like white supremacist gatherings. Then Bernie came along, and I agreed with him, and I had to investigate Venezuelan socialism to square it away with my internalized opposition. So I did read Capital. I also read the UN and Treasury website on Venezuelan sanctions and realized why Venezuela is having such a difficult time. My brother, who was a Bernie-bro in 2016 has fallen with the alt-right. I cannot overstate how Hillary Clinton, the DNC, and pied piper strategy to run against Donald Trump has devastated the minds of Americans.
He was a Bernie bro, when Bernie got ratfucked. My brother also fell on hard times, he turned increasingly pessimistic and exacerbated his mental illness. His mishandled OCD – his therapist was terrible– led him to stay home and listen to more extreme right-wing content, he was struggling to pay off his student loans (which Joe Biden never canceled/pardoned). And he is now a libertarian/AnCap, Peter Schiff type, a silverbug, an absolute MAGA cretin and evangelical christian weirdo (we are Catholic). And because he is still struggling to find a decent job, applying to CBP.
I found this out recently when my mom called to ask for information, "because your brother is applying to join a federal government agency" and I told them I wouldn't not give them anything, they didn't already know. Come to find out he has taken a fitness test and will join the CBP.
This shit sucks man.
if you can stand being around them, this is an opportunity to play nice with him and get tours of facilities or "borrow" manuals and shit that might come in handy for someone later.
Thinking exactly this…
You could find who his colleagues are, where they park, their office of operations…
OP, if your brother doesn’t already know you’re not a chud, please pretend to be one and ingratiate yourself with him
probably the best way to find a silver lining from the "my brother is a genocidaire" situation
Install keyloggers on home computers to potentially get internal websites and credentials.
What they said involves only minor crime, this will get you put in jail for years.
Lol what they said would also be considered treason. I'm not sure you fully appreciate the moment we're living in.
idk depends how mad somebody gets about it. if OP has good opsec disseminating information to cadres it's unlikely he'd be caught.
keylogger on a home computer probably also something you could get away with, especially if the brother isn't a computer genius, but that's actually illegal, going on a tour and pacing out dimensions for a doom wad isn't directly a crime.
i think it's over-stating it to say there's no difference between statutory and arbitrary criminalization. OP is under more threat from existing while Venezuelan than he is from a variety of low-stakes resistance activities he could hypothetically engage in.
This sounds smart to say, but pragmatically speaking it is dangerously false and you shouldn't be spreading this sort of misinformation. We aren't living in The Purge or jorje orwel, there's still a strong likelihood that you as a citizen can do normal activism and not get arrested for it, even if the cops harass you and look for crimes you may have committed in unrelated situations to book you anyway.
They're grabbing people off the street and sending them to concentration camps outside and around the country. Y'all are being silly.
that's existing while brown. doing a little scouting or research isn't moving the needle on that threat model. committing a specific felony would.
Treason has a set of legal definitions. It's not treason in any sense more substantial than putting up a Palestinian flag in your window.