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On your own? Not much. You can stop using certain products, save money, and so on. But that's mostly going to help make your individual existence a bit better/less bad. The CEO's aren't gonna give a flying fuck.

But our strength is in our numbers. Get organized. Maybe in a political party, maybe "just" in some sort of collective that helps in an area you care about. Help others in whatever capacity fits your abilities and your situation. And don't expect it to be a quick victory. That will only result in disappointment. As a wise man (?) once so succinctly put it: "Apes together strong."

Halt excess spending. Don't spend a single dime more than necessary to survive. You are gonna need every penny in your bank account if you hope to make it the next 2 years.

Oh, and don't count on democratic politicians to do anything about anything. They fear progressives more than a fascist Trump regime because they are all in the pockets of those tech billionaires.

If you're a person with brown skin, I hope and pray for you and am donating what little I can to organizations who are trying to protect immigrants and non-whites.

try spray painting a cock and balls onto a Tesla

Nice

All billionaires should be required to prove they’re not made of cake.

Stop using and/or buying their products comes to mind.

Adblock, Firefox, don't buy new phones, etc etc etc

Individually? Nothing. Therefore: Organise, organise, organise

The solution is simple, but not easy: Stop using their products. A mass exodus of their users will quickly take away their power.

Stop using all Alphabet/Google products. Other search engines, email providers, streaming video, and even cell phone operating systems exist. Switch to them.

Stop using all Meta products. Other social networks and messaging applications exist. Switch to them.

Stop buying from Amazon and watching their streams. Other online stores and streaming media exists. Switch to them.

Keep going for every company who has a billionaire CEO, owner, or shareholder. Their fortunes will evaporate quickly.

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antiaircraft gun
antitank weapon
Big Bertha
cannon
    French 75
    Vulcan automatic cannon
coastal artillery
German 88
Maxim machine gun
mortar
Panzerfaust
Panzerschreck
Paris Gun
Schwarzlose machine gun

biological weaponry

anthrax
plague
Q fever
ricin
smallpox
yellow rain

chemical weaponry

adamsite
diphosgene
hydrogen cyanide
lewisite
nerve gas
phosgene
tear gas
    chloropicrin

combat weapons ranged weapons

bola
boomerang
bow and arrow
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grapeshot
flamethrower
Greek fire
sling
spear
spear-thrower

hand-to-hand combat weapons

bayonet
club
dagger
halberd
lance
pike
quarterstaff
sabre
sword
tomahawk

explosives bombs

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dirty bomb
grenade
improvised explosive device
mine
shrapnel

explosive substances

PETN
RDX
trinitrotoluene (TNT)

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antiballistic missile
ICBM
Lance missile
Peacekeeper missile
Minuteman missile
Nike missile
Polaris missile
Poseidon missile
torpedo
Trident missile
V-2 missile

cruise missiles

Tomahawk
V-1 missile

rockets

bazooka
Congreve rocket

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blowgun
blunderbuss
carbine
    Spencer carbine
Gatling gun
handgun
    pistol
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        derringer
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musket
rifle
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    Mauser rifle
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shotgun

semiautomatic

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rifle
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        AK-47
        M16 rifle
    Browning automatic rifle
submachine gun
    Sten gun
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    Uzi submachine gun

nuclear weapons

intermediate-range nuclear weapons
tactical nuclear weapon
thermonuclear bomb
    atomic bomb
    neutron bomb
weapon of mass destruction

siege weapons

battering ram
Big Bertha
cannon
    French 75
catapult
    onager
culverin
German 88
ram
Vulcan automatic cannon 

People keep answering by trying to tell you to consume your way out of this.

There is only one way, organize, unionize and vote!

The first thing you can do is not buy anything that makes the tech billionaires more money. All they care about is money: don't give them any if you can help it.

Instead of spending 200$ a month on subscriptions, spend 300$ on a used PC, take a weekend to learn how to selfhost/pirate and then pay 5$ for a trustworthy vpn like mullvad. If you're in the EU, send data deletion requests to every big company you've had an account with. Start buying things off local retailers, not Amazon. Buy computers/phones either second hand or from smaller/more trustworthy manufacturers...

And most importantly. NEVER. STOP. COMPLAINING. ABOUT. IT. The moment the complaints stop is the moment that bullshit is accepted...

Who are those two in the picture? Are we supposed to know them?

Call Luigi?

Pirate, AdBlock/Sponsorblock and use Free/Open Source alternatives.

Years ago people laughed at me for not having Facebook (and never having had it in the first place). Who's laughing now? Not me, nor any other consumers. But hey, we tried...

Do what you can. A little more each day if it gets easier. Understand we can't fight all the worlds evils alone, but we aren't alone so whatever your fight is helps all of us.

I push for opensource, self hosting, being self sufficient, unionizing (at work, and for tenets), forming coops (worker, community, housing, and even producer coops), do mutual aid, support charities through donations sure but also volunteering. I also try to buy less, if you need it you need it, but if you don't then why support corps like Walmart or Amazon for them to take those profits to undermine us.

Again it's not about perfection or even self actualization, it's just every time we can empower ourselves and others we can shift the power balance.