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they assassinate or defame your leaders. so what do you do? you organize
without them.
they beat up or frame your strongest, so what do you do? you mobilize without
them.
they cheat out or steal from your most renowned, so what do you do? you make do
without them.
they capture or seduce your young, so what do you do? you try to be good to
them.
they kick and they strangle you whenever you're down, so what do you do? just
get over them?
you can't play if they don't want you to play. Something tells me the board is
their own.
you don't have to play their games. But games can be won, and if you dare, then
try.
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@user-1074
people crave diversity, and their yokes chafe them even as revolution draws
near. I doubt it'd be possible to constrain them to one set of procedures, no
matter how equitable.
Protocol, not procedure.
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I wish I could be dead so that somebody competent would take my place
[uh-oh, here come the angsty thoughts. Better go be a teenager for a bit]
... ugh, whatever mom (am I doing it right?)
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when people need you but don't believe in you, it's easy to find it difficult
to get out of bed.
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║ if you want to organize on a mass scale, stop trying to be people's friends. │
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║ instead, start issuing commands. │
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║ [1 month earlier] │
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║ hey so I was thinking of going around to all the streets on my house and │
║ handing out notebooks full of useful numbers they could call if they need help │
║ in one area or another. I was thinking it'd help because then people would know │
║ where the local [safe/store]houses were. Plus if anyone had a project, they │
║ could more easily hook up. │
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║ [1 month earlier] │
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║ so I was thinking about hosting a "captain" workshop, as in "here's what you do │
║ when you're suddenly deputized" type of course. Except instead of like, │
║ teaching you how to light a fire or mend a wound, instead I taught you how to │
║ lead. │
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║ Like, "here's some projects that a suburban subdivision could complete on their │
║ own" and "what if we collectivized our efforts and defences" and "why is nobody │
║ acting as if war was coming to our home" and "oh yes please I'd love an extra │
║ helping of spaghetti dear I love you so very very much my dear" │
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[1 month earlier]
what if we played a D&D style board game set in [home state] and the
surrounding [kilometers] and tried to generate a list of possible opponents or
mass-tragedies.
we could make up ideas for possible solutions, and create a list of
requirements -> "this plan needs a firetruck and for the dam to have not
been blown" or "this plan needs a massage therapist and a bushel of apples" or
whatever
[1 month earlier]
I was talking to so-and-so and she said this-and-that and I got a little
scared, so I made this picture of blue and purple grays.
[1 month earlier]
Listen, it's important to design software such that the ease of use AND the
impossibly secure truths remain self-evident. Otherwise, nobody's gonna trust
it!
[1 month earlier]
Hi, my name is Mitz Renaldi, nice to meet you, oh thanks yes it is a lovely hat
isn't it
[some months earlier]
The Supreme Court is illegitimate! They seek to install Trump as a king! We
have no better time to lose our fear than today! Wear Black Red and Blue
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everyone's like "we need to organize! we gotta do something!" and they're
asking for more effort.
we don't need more effort. We have enough effort. The required effort is a
small fraction of our total reserves of effort.
what we need is to re-align our priorities.
For example, I think our entire research industry should focus on one project
at a time. Everyone should make an effort to contribute, no matter the field. I
think this would enable some EXCELLENT co-ordi-operat-ion.
I also believe that our neighborhoods should self-support each other. "For
example, did you know that we have a daily delivery service where so-and-so
drives to the grocery store, picks up everyone's orders, and then delivers to
your front door? No, you don't have to pay for it. We don't really do that
anymore. Well, you can buy things wherever if you want, but that's not how it's
done around here." sorta vibes.
what is money? money is the product of peacetime. Money is fake! It's useful if
everyone agrees, but dollars are paper.
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