Technology makes it harder every time.
One day, a general strike won't slow them down at all.
this post was submitted on 22 Jan 2025
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Big problem is, if you just wait for them to be toppled, you'll just be subjugated by the one doing the toppling.
You won't solve the overall problems with big violent revolutions, you get it by making the oligarchs irrelevant.
Not a meme
Hardest pill to swallow: that includes "lesser of two evils".
Big hill to climb after giving them a military and government, but agreed.
Power is where people believe it is.
No one really "controls" a military or government, at every step of the chain people can disagree. And when they do, it doesn't always shake out the way people expect.
I was threatened with a mutinity charge in the Navy, but I stood by my position and like five people didn't get demoted over some bullshit that wasn't their fault.
If I'd have backed down, they'd have been fucked because they were the fall guys.
If trump tries to sic the US government on citizens or blue states, don't expect everyone to just follow orders, even if the people at the very top do. They're still the ones sitting at desks.
Look at South Korea, president tried to pull a coup and basically everyone told him to fuck off. Didn't matter that he was in charge of the military and government
This is exactly right. You say no.
Or you say yes, and take your time, fuck it up, do it wrong, report that you succeeded when you did nothing, etc. Wrench in the gears.
Look at South Korea, president tried to pull a coup and basically everyone told him to fuck off. Didn’t matter that he was in charge of the military and government
So there is a chance!
There's always a chance...
Up to the point of Terminator robot soldiers, then we're fucked.
By the time we get those, we need to have our shit sorted out.
Within the next decade then.
Myanmar's military regime had the best grip possible on the armed forces by basically making a separate caste to avoid having the soldiers having second thoughts about shooting at their own families.