2/ ...but at a truck protest, lefties and glowies aren't going to just pop in driving a $150,000 Freightliner or Peterbilt. Even if they could borrow the truck, they're not going to know how to drive it.
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3/ Gardens need walls. Societies need walls. Protest groups need walls. Countries need walls.
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4/ "BYOB truck" is a really insanely modest signalling cost...and yet it's enough to make a difference between "yet another Charlie Foxtrot" and something more.
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Todd Barrett @thepiclordReplying to @Face_Almighty44 @MorlockPThe boat parades were some (accidental?) genius, if you ask me. Not only are they FUN to participate in and highly visible, but how you gonna disrupt them? Swim out out there with a sign? But by same token they don't cause much disruption so not really good as 'protest' method.1 reply 3 retweets 67 likesShow this thread -
6/ One mode of analysis of which protests work and which do not is "what SPECIFICALLY did group X, that succeeded, do?" Follow this re some lefty stuff and you learn the secret is: * start in 1974 * use radical left wing nuns * get Noam Chomsky to join you * use mimeograph
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7/ ok, guys, here's what we've got to do: get a mimeograph machine and convince Noam Chomsky and...
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8/ Would it have been better for the right to organize in 1992? sure Would it be better if righties were characterologically what they are not - joiners, organizers, content w slow marches through institutions? sure
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9/ but here we are in 2022 where * the communist rot is everywhere * the way that people make friends is ONLINE, not in the Rotary Club where they get together once a month to discuss what Merv Griffin said on The Tonight Show
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10/ ...so a first level analysis of "first we protest the Vietnam War, then we exchange phone numbers,..." isn't going to be ideal. Saying "but it WORKED, and righties are retarded for not doing it"...I dunno, man. (a) I'm not convinced it would work for us, here, now
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11/ (b) even if it MIGHT work, apparently the message isn't landing. ...but righties ARE, it seems, eager to do a few things: - get in boats - get in trucks - talk online - donate
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12/ Saying that righties should abandon this and do what they don't want to do / what doesn't come naturally seems like a less than useful starting point. "Hey obese person, have you thought about joining a public exercise group" vs "you already like vidya - how about DDR?"
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13/ Alinsky rules: RULE 2: “Never go outside the expertise of your people.” RULE 6: “A good tactic is one your people enjoy.”
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