Thursday, June 26, 2025
A Comment Policy Reminder
Sunday, June 15, 2025
Peter Ackerman's Accuracy
"Well..you know, again, we're always talking about probabilities. But a strategy to go to the street because you're angry - to let off steam - recognizing you probably have a finite amount of steam - that's probably a not good use of your steam. [Sic] And I don't believe you should...even consider a tactic without understanding its strategic context. Why would you just go out and do something without thinking it through?...Tactics are not a strategy. [Emphasis added.] "What makes a tactic have a strategic context is the forethought that comes to it. [Emphasis added.]
"And the military gets this...as some of you know, I have a son who was in the military and...as a combat officer before he went out on any activity he had to write a 40-page paper about what was the purpose, what were the risks, and on and on and on! We should submit ourselves to that same kind of discipline. If you don't do it, you're gonna lose!"
To those who want to craft an effective resistance to the autocrats who have taken over their countries (as Trump and the Republican Party have done in the United States), I say the same thing. Educate yourselves in the theory and practice of effective strategic nonviolent resistance. Read some books - especially the books published by the Albert Einstein Institution. Learn to craft an effective strategy of resistance, an effective theory of change. If you don't do it, you're going to lose!
Saturday, June 14, 2025
Cassandra's Sore Throat
Wednesday, May 14, 2025
Repost: A Clarifying of Stance
Monday, April 28, 2025
Legible To Machines?
Thursday, April 24, 2025
Repost: Gantry Collapse
Wednesday, March 12, 2025
Non-Starlink Alternatives to T-Mobile?
Saturday, March 1, 2025
Effective Cures Versus Social Placebos
- They reject all forms of violence. This includes sabotage and property destruction!
- They employ an entire suite of tactical tools, and don't rely on just one or two tactics.
- They are able to motivate large numbers of the oppressed to withdraw as much as possible from providing any economic or political support to an oppressive regime.
- They are thus able to impose serious, sustained, long-term economic and political costs on the oppressive regime.