Asking for a friend
Edit: wording
Water the tree of liberty with the blood of the tyrant
First all, glad your friend recognized this.
I found this article to be a prescient good grounding: https://wagingnonviolence.org/2024/11/10-things-to-do-if-trump-wins/
I’m finding local communities to participate in (potlucks, picnics, movie night, anything that doesn’t spend more money). Sending holiday cards to my neighbors, anything to connect and integrate because what comes next will test all our bonds.
“and the only thing that would expidite its destruction is a violent revolution”. feels like sorta a leading question to me.
Yeah, kind of incorrect too. I should edit it, “to say and violent revolution would only expedite it’s destruction.”
ok so the bias is away from violence rather than toward it?
That was the attempt
Why?
With combat.
News at 11.
Assuming we’re thinking of the same place, you have to deal with a large group of people who have been fooled, and are about to get very angry and need a target they can reach for their anger. Highlighting mid to high level members of their party leadership as the people to blame allows them to hold their great leader blameless, protecting their egos, while at the same time ripping down the pillars that prop up that same leader. Calling for new blood to support… whatever leader you’re talking about, and voting out “those idiots that aren’t giving him what he needs and so we all are suffering” allows the malleable followers to self destruct the party apparatus like ants eating away the bones of an elephant.
Manipulation in revolution is how we get a dictatorship.
Weaponized incompetence?
Not as effective as weaponized competence but use what ya got
The goal of the hostile country is to cause chaos and conflict. It does not care if an insider or outsider does it.
The only way to win is not to play.
You say that as if it’s an option for everyone in said country.
As long as you’re alive, you have options. And the majority of them are usually better than just giving up and dying, either by a civil war or under the occupation forces.
The only thing not clear is the timing. How close is the shit from the fan at any particular moment?
So are you advocating for action or “not playing” (ie rolling over)? Make up your mind.
Personally, I’m a big fan of leaving. When shooting, or barbed wires are imminent, just pack your family, some essentials and go have a long boring life somewhere else.
Again - not an option for the majority of people. Not only does that require significant amounts of money, it also assumes the place you’re going is accessible (eg open borders, etc) You’re advocating from a position of privilege and/or ignorance of you think “just leave” is a reasonable suggestion.
Ask Rylanor
Being the second time I’ve seen this i did a little research. So is like trump fulgrim?
Rylanor’s situation just seems similar to ours;
- everyone he cares about is morphed into a parody of themselves or dead
- The authority that he trusted betrayed him deeply
- He only survived (Drop Site Massacre) by allying with others of the same cause
Bonus if your name is Luigi:
- Perfectly executed a premeditated attack on the ones who wrong him
