r/politics • u/thenationmagazine The Nation Magazine • 25d ago

Soft Paywall Mahmoud Khalil Is the First Activist to Be Disappeared by Trump

https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/trump-arrest-detention-mahmoud-khalil/?nc=1
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u/sugaree53 25d ago

Buy a burner phone and start calling your reps. Tell them that they are violating their oath by not standing up for the Constitution and against a President who sides with Russia. Tell them that they appear cowardly because of it. (And btw, as an aviation mechanic, you are very valuable and we need more people like you in this country)

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u/Training-Text-9959 24d ago

Genuinely wondering how using a burner phone is necessary? You have to give your zip code at minimum to have your calls tallied.

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u/sugaree53 24d ago

A burner phone, if bought with cash, cannot be traced back to you as the caller, thus protecting you from being identified as a dissident

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u/[deleted] 24d ago

Only if you make sure that your burner is never near your real phone. If you're carrying them both in your pocket all the time, or you leave one at home when you're not using it, then it's pretty trivial to come up with a short list of suspects. They can parse through the location data of all devices and see which phones frequently travel near your burner or have frequent locations they visit.

This process is probably completely automated at this point.

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u/sugaree53 24d ago

Thanks for the tip

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u/TheDubuGuy 24d ago

It still could, just not as easily

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u/sugaree53 24d ago

We need to hound the shit out of these cowards in the safest way possible… what do you suggest?

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u/TheDubuGuy 24d ago

There isn’t a 100% foolproof method to be completely anonymous and untraceable. I don’t necessarily think you need to worry about that, but if you are concerned maybe try a google voice account

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u/queen_slug-4-a-butt 23d ago

I am sending this to everyone who needs to feel a little less helpless.

This template and 6 clicks will send a fax to your rep and annoy the shit out of them and goad them to action.

As Jim Morrison once said: "the time to hesitate is through."