Ch 17.4 - People Power
"If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." - African Proverb, Martha Goedert
a. Symbiosis
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"You let one ant stand up to us, then they all might stand up. Those puny little ants outnumber us 100 to one and if they ever figure that out, there goes our way of life! It's not about food. It's about keeping those ants in line." - A Bug’s Life
"When are people going to stand up he ranted. Not yet I said. When he asked? You'll know. How? You'll just know. Then I told him this story. In early 1987 I was in Navy Boot camp. In boot camp you eat in silence. On this particular day the lion sleeps tonight began to play on whatever radio station was piped into the mess hall. All of a sudden the entire mess hall was singing the chorus. Just as suddenly everyone stopped. Drill instructors looked around baffled. You'll just know. Everyone will know." - Unknown
"Understanding people power: The Upside-Down Triangle -> By themselves, rulers cannot collect taxes, enforce repressive laws and regulations, keep trains running on time, prepare national budgets, direct traffic, manage ports, print money, repair roads, keep markets supplied with food, make steel, build rockets, train the police and army, issue postage stamps, or even milk a cow. People provide these services to the ruler through a variety of organizations and institutions. If people would stop providing these skills, the ruler could not rule." - Gene Sharp, The Politics of Non-Violent Action
"Remember this. The people you're trying to step on, we're everyone you depend on. We're the people who do your laundry and cook your food and serve your dinner. We make your bed. We guard you while you're asleep. We drive the ambulances. We direct your call. We are cooks and taxi drivers and we know everything about you. We process your insurance claims and credit card charges. We control every part of your life. We are the middle children of history, raised by television to believe that someday we'll be millionaires and movie stars and rock stars, but we won't. And we're just learning this fact. So don't f*ck with us." - Fight Club
"United we stand divided we fall." - Aesop
"We should not underestimate ourselves, because if lots of individuals go together then we can accomplish almost anything.” – Greta Thunberg
”Apes together strong!” - Planet of the Apes Movie
"Don’t be a tool and fall for the divide and rule bait. Or at least spit it out." - Unknown
"The best solution to the iterated prisoner's dilemma is knowing how trustworthy the other people are in the game before you decide to work together." - Unknown
"Divide and conquer is the only way they can win. Division by age/race/gender/vaccine status. Unity saves. Greatest power is our numbers. They have bunkers. All we have is each other. They want you to obsess on our differences. We don't have to like each other. Freedom is our birthright. Swallow your pride. Humble yourself. Symbiosis. Mutually beneficial relationship between different groups." - Unknown
"infighting ends movements - compromised/controlled opposition labels always branded on people who made the most progress... doubt and division remains which is by design. False story is run and then retracted knowning lie reaches millions and then retraction barely gets spoken about. Divisive rumors. Gossip makes you unwitting controlled opposition to undermine your own interests." - Unknown
"The declaration of independence was written and signed by a 'well off group of people' who had to hang together or they would all hang separately." - Unknown
"This is what I EXPECT to happen in America. Americans will pick up the pieces. Brew their own beer. Butcher their own animals. Make their own clothes. Weave their own fabrics. We've done it before, WE WILL DO IT AGAIN. There will still be enough of us to teach our kids how. And when all these corporate castles fall, WE will still be standing. Because WE were never sheep to begin to begin with... When all this shakes out what will be left will be American communities. The Amish will survive better than ALL the rest of us because they are used to taking care of each other. But when WE have no distractions WE will learn fast." - Unknown
b. Non-Compliance
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”Sugar and spice and everything nice is so yesterday.
Instead be salty, defiant, and extremely non-compliant.” - Unknown
"You cannot comply your way out of tyranny." - Unknown
”In the end you will walk out. Because 100 thousand Englishmen simply can’t control 350 million Indians if those Indians refuse to cooperate.” - Gandhi Movie
"If you want the system to collapse don’t comply, don’t turn up, and don’t fill out any paperwork." - Unknown
"We allow the enemy to manipulate us in order to break the trap and see where they want us to go." - Andrew Tate
"If you're young and want to ACTUALLY help your cause, here's what you can do. Pursue a career in Finance, Law, Media, Government, Military, or Academia. These are the levers of power in our society, seize them. Under no circumstances reveal yourself as right-wing. Play their game." - Unknown
"One need not have an actual conspiracy to achieve the practical effects of a conspiracy. More regimes have been brought, piecemeal, to their knees by what was once called 'Irish Democracy,' the silent, dogged resistance, withdrawal and truculence of millions of ordinary people, than by revolutionary vanguards or rioting mobs." - James Scott, Two Cheers for Anarchy
"The first attack will be on ‘being classy’ and civil. People are quickly realizing that being ‘classy’, ‘nice’, ‘civil’ and worst of all ‘predictable’ is for losers. Real class is rooted in moral character, not fancy tree decorations or money. The successful strategy of resistance begins by becoming unpredictable and having no class. It is a weapon they cannot fight against. In addition, academics heads explode when conservatives do it." - Unknown
"Our biggest problem is that we're still trying to play by the rules. They have no rules!" - Unknown
"Civilian use of force is what short circuits the communist tactics, every time. If they block a road for a protest, they’re counting on the police protecting them for a while, arresting them, and the DA letting them go. Motorists beating that azz before cops come ruins it all." - Unknown
"HOW YOU BREAK A SYSTEM IS... You overwhelm it." - Unknown
"1) If government is involved, avoid it
2) If government supports it, reject it
3) If government says it's safe, it's not
4) If government says it's true, it's false
5) If government wants to help, it won't
6) If government says you need it, you don't" - Dr. Simon Goddek, Life Hacks - 2023 edition
"Armed revolution is a non-starter, as the oligarchs have far more firepower, and the dissenters are unorganized and scattered. A form of 'Irish Democracy' where a silent dogged resistance, marked by the withdrawal from society, belligerence to authority and non-compliance with government dictates by millions of ordinary people would accomplish far more than rioting and armed revolution. Millions have already practiced a form of Irish Democracy by not masking, not social distancing, not getting jabbed, and taking control of their own health decisions." - Unknown
"To the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, RESIST MUCH, OBEY LITTLE, Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved, Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever afterward resumes its liberty." - Walt Whitman: RESIST MUCH, OBEY LITTLE
"The truth is, one who seeks to achieve freedom by petitioning those in power to give it to him has already failed, regardless of the response. To beg for the blessing of 'authority' is to accept that the choice is the master's alone to make, which means that the person is already, by definition, a slave.” - Unknown
"Resistance is most practicable where enforcement is spotty." - Unknown
"Do nothing. Do not participate. Do not feed the machine that oppresses you." - Unknown
"Steps to take:
1) Cancel your telly. They love to whisper their narratives into your ear during the sporting matches you love. It works!
2) Do more activities (real activities) with your family. Rediscover the outdoors, or play games by the fire in your home.
3) Find more ways to [legally avoid] paying taxes. .gov is using your $ to stamp out your culture and way of life.
4) Be brave, speak out, rationally, with humor. It's like pulling the silver stake out in front of a vampire. The truth cancels the Left's fakery." - Unknown
"I've said it before, and I'll say it again. Costco Only. Every Sunday.
1) Fill up on Gas
2) Buy all the food you need+Frozen Junk food to deter the temptation to eat out
3) Buy all the liquor you need.
Don't spend a dime the rest of the week. It's EASY, and watch your bank account grow." - Unknown
"Buy local. If you buy corporate, you are digging your own grave." - Unknown
"Boycotting is FUN! ESPN, Disney, Target, AB Imbev, UPS, NPR, the American military, the list keeps getting better and better. Don't need or want ANYTHING from them." - Unknown
"If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant." - Sun Tzu
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." - Napoleon Bonaparte
"Think of a grain of sand, it will not stop a large gear box, but millions of grains of sand will grind it to halt. Every one of the above acts of resistance is a grain of sand, and if we get enough people resisting, we can defeat the evil that is trying to take control." - Unknown
c. Ridicule
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"Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. There is no defense. It's irrational. It's infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions." - Saul Alinsky's RULES FOR RADICALS, Rule 5
”It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." - Samuel Adams
“What if:
Those calling for empathy have a specific deadness of empathy?
Those calling for justice *are* the unjust?
Those calling "Privilege" are the privileged?
Those calling for equality seek to oppress us?
Those anti-racists are open racists?
Those progressives seek regression?
Those journalists covering up the news?
Try the following exercise: put a minus sign in front of nearly every banner claim made by "the progressives ." Doesn't that make more sense?” - Unknown
"Woke Translator 2023 Edition:
Fascist = Conservative
Far right = Conservative
Gender = Personality + Preference
Gender Affirmation = Rejection of Biological Reality
Hate = Disagreement
Misinformation = Inconvenient Fact
Racist = White Conservative
The Science = Government Approved Scientific Claim
Transphobia = Acknowledging Biological Reality
White Supremacist = Conservative (any race)" - @ZubyMusic
"Values of woke:
- You are what your imagination says you are
- Obedience is strength
- Bravery is dangerous
- Victimizing yourself is powerful
- Self-responsibility is someone else's responsibility
- Reality isn't real" - Unknown
The six most effective things you can do to counter Wokeness are:
1) Demand clear definitions and evidence for its claims and programs, over and over and over again
2) Point out its contradictions and encourage infighting/civil war
3) Point out its failures and demand explanations
4) Call things by their proper names and make the Woke explain how they're different. "Diversity and inclusion" = racial quotas. Equity isn't equality.
5) When applicable, be ready to sue for discrimination. It's essential to keep the law neutral.
6) Laugh at it. The very ideas they're proposing are ridiculous and should be ridiculed. Their theories are pathetically low-resolution and unrealistic. Their behaviors tend to be infantile, and they should be made fun of as such. Laugh.
per·vert - verb - To lead someone away from what is right, natural, or acceptable.
per·vert - noun - A person whose sexual behavior is regarded as abnormal and unacceptable.
"Rediscover your disgust response. This will solve 90% of society's problems. Gross stuff is gross. Don't rationalize it. Creepy people are creepy. First impressions are almost always right, and the few exceptions to the rule aren't worth disregarding the fundamental truth for." - Cernovich
"It's a direct assault on the bloodlines of others. The idea that YOUR child should be transitioned to a state of non-reproductive viability is a clear attempt to destroy your lineage. You have the right and duty to fight like your ancestors wished you would." - Unknown
“How central is this topic to our business, to our customers? Does it really concern them? Would they expect us to be opining on this because it really intersects with their day-to-day lives? We don’t think it’s our job to opine on everything. But at the same time, it’s not our job to stay on the sidelines, either.” - Unknown, on whether it makes sense for a company to get involved in culturally sensitive issues
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