commiespammer

Congratulations! I’m happy to hear that it worked out, and I wish you more and more success in the future!

Whatever occurs, I wish you the best of luck going forward. You’ve done well already.

Like, mutually assured destruction, as in if they try to use this against you you can threaten to blow this up and create a ton of bad press and a huge headache for everyone involved. I’m not exactly sure how that could be done, though.

If you do plan on going that route, though, I think something like this could blow up on social media. If you feel that it’s reached that stage, it might be worth a shot to try to create some social media attention/outrage. if you’d like you could dm me any materials on social media your group has about the situation, and I could try to get some friends to post it on instagram/twitter whatever for visibility, but there’s no guarantee it could work.

This might be a bad idea, but I do think if they tried to weaponize your past SA against you it’d look really, really bad for them if word got out, to the point of national embarrassment. So it might be possible to set up a kind of MAD like that, if they don’t try to force you out of negotiating?

still, you should prioritize your own mental health/safety.

My history teacher is pretty vocally anti-trump, but bought the anti-communist kool-aid hard. I was cringing through her entire lecture about how the soviet union hated religion and people getting together to oppose the government, and the cold war unit is just getting started…

First I want to say that you’re not a failure!

You’re already extremely brave for being willing to put yourself out there like that, organizing a movement and clashing with authority head on. I think that you’re also being unfair to yourself, since the things that are going on in Palestine, Iran, Lebanon etc aren’t under our direct control, and they’re not things that we can fix with our own efforts easily. You’re doing more than the vast majority of people, and you should be proud of that.

As for what you should do… I think at this point you kind of have three options. The first is to completely burn bridges and announce that you’re going ahead with the walkout anyways, and to organize it. The downside for this is that you’ll draw more fire from the administration, and possibly they’ll try to take you down or get you expelled somehow. If you can gain more visibility for yourself, you might be able to make this a bigger fight, but it is pretty risky.

Another option would be for you to publicly announce that you’ll no longer be hosting the walkout, but imply that others can still do it spontaneously, if they’d like, essentially detaching it from yourself, while also making it clear you’re under pressure. And finally, you could completely acquiesce, keep your head down, and hope they don’t come after you any more.

Personally, I feel 1 or 2 would be better, but you’ve more than earned your right to choose what to do from this point on.