Young fool that I was, I had NO idea of the power of showing my work when I was in school. I just hated rules and authority and rebelled over every little thing.
2) For instance, how do you know how to note the day? Is it month first, or date first? I don't know, do you? As you can see in my pictures, I got it wrong, but, AHA!, I corrected my error. In this school, where we show our work, that's a badge of honor!
3) Another thing we do is quote our authors. We do NO plagiarism here. None. We attribute. And that's what we're going to do right now. I'm going to quote the points I underlined and dated. We love our authors here, and credit them every chance we can.
4) Gene Sharp says: "...despite the appearances of strength, all dictatorships have weaknesses, internal inefficiencies, personal rivalries, institutional inefficiencies, and conflicts between organizations and departments."
5) "At times, for example, even Hitler's direct orders were never implemented because those beneath him in the hierarchy refused to carry them out."
6) "...types of struggle that target the dictatorship's identifiable weaknesses have greater chances of success than those that seek to fight the dictatorship where it is clearly strongest."
7) Look at this little list:
1) Internal Inefficiencies, 2) Personal Rivalries, 3) Institutional Inefficiencies, and 4) Conflicts Between Organizations and Departments.
What a fantastic little list!
8) I can tell you one person NOT paying attention to Sharp's little list. The local chairman of the Republican Party here in Albemarle County, Virginia. How do I know he's not? He never replied to my email. Do you have any idea how motivated I actually am? No response.
9) As we've discussed, and according to William Vance Bowker, the author of our wonderful little history of The Office of the Sheriff, there are 3,083 counties in America. How many of them have careless flunkies like mine?
10) How many counties does the Republican Party ensure vote Democrat? How long has our Party been lost to America? I've answered countless times. At least since the ascendance of the Progressives over our Party at the turn of the 19th Century.
11) What internal inefficiencies does the Biden Sadministration demonstrate? Who is calling them out? Who is Joe Biden's most potent personal rival? Could it be Hillary? Who is fanning her cosmic ego with further stupidities as they should be? Where are our plants?
12) Who remembers how vile, evil, stupid, and ineffective the DOJ was under Trump? Jeff Sessions? Bill Barr? Two of the most useless Republicans in Republican history. They can't be the only such idiots. Gene Sharp tells us that our current dictator has idiots on his side, too.
13) Let's return to the idea of proof of case. People never get involved in efforts they can't believe in. People must be able to believe that the mission can be accomplished. They don't need a guarantee of victory. People accept risk. What they don't accept is impossibility.
14) Jack Kennedy told us that we didn't embrace the missions we do because they're easy. We embrace them because they're hard. As fabulous as Reagan was, he did not give us a mission like taking a man to the moon and returning him safely, during this decade as Kennedy did.
15) That's why the Q people resurrected Jack Kennedy Jr. From Kennedy 1, until Trump, no one gave us a mission worth living or dying for. Making America Great Again was exactly such a mission, and it is has not ended. America First names the mission.
16) I say Joe Biden is a tyrant. #BidenIsATyrant. And I say he's weak. He's the weakest occupant of the Oval Office in the entire history of the White House. He deserves nothing but our scorn and derision. He is a mere tool of the left, and unworthy of either fear or respect.
17) I will keep repeating. In November 2020 the America we know ended. Its election stolen, our democracy is now a kleptocracy. To the best thief go the spoils. Without the vote, our 1st Amendment is dead. Without free speech, America is gone.
18) But we may scorn our dictator. We may revile his sadministration. We may revel in and reveal his many weaknesses. An America that defeated Great Britain for its freedom can defeat Joe Biden and his fellow minions. We can claim our nation back.
19) America is NOT our government. It's not even our Constitution and written laws. America is the law of truth and freedom written upon the soul of every patriot. We, the sleeping giant now awakened, we are America. We are the storm. We are who should be feared.
20) How do you NOT love Heisenberg. He is NOT the one IN danger. He IS the danger. That is who we were in 1776. It is who we are in 2021. Dictators are weak. Gene Sharp has told us so. And Gene Sharp is right.
Thread ends at #20.
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Here's a list from page 45. It isn't an easy list to unpack.
The Categories of Weapons in Political Defiance:
1) Psychological 2) Social 3) Economic 4) Political
2) I think what I have to do is make it very personal. I know a great deal about psychology. For instance, I know how be respectful on the path to earning respect, and I can do this with enemies at will. I also know how to agree and disagree, gently yet forcefully.
3) Further, I also know how to introduce myself and initiate friendships. I have a list of local sheriffs I've been procrastinating reaching out to. I must STOP procrastinating. I can be a powerful friend. I will reach out to a minimum of 1 per day till my list is complete.
Let's discuss the scientific method. And we're going to discuss truth. Gene Sharp's work demands this. We must know the truth. Truth is what we cooperate with.
2) Within the scientific method, there is a single most powerful moment. It is the moment we've discovered "proof of case." A vaccine for polio is possible. Heavier than air flight is possible. Birds are heavier than air. Leonardo Da Vinci made that case. The Wrights proved it.
3) A dictatorship can be defeated. It has weaknesses. It has vulnerabilities. How is it, I ask, that YOU comply? How do you allow our current dictatorship its power? How do you help it cover for its weaknesses?
If there's a single fact we need Sharp to give us, it is the title of this chapter. Dictatorships have weaknesses. A moment from sci-fi will illustrate.
2) Be it an alien invasion or some creature from beyond like Godzilla, the question is always, does it bleed? If the poor creature can, then its doom is already in the can. Monsters bleed and that means humans can kill them.
3) This is 100% true of all dictatorships. They bleed and they can be taken down. The simple fact that dictatorships DO, in fact, HAVE weaknesses is one of Sharp's greatest points. Tyrants do NOT enjoy the cosmic powers they wish us to believe they do.
Can't get to my essay till this afternoon, but you'll want to dig into #FromDictatorshipToDemocracy Chapter 4, Dictatorships have Weaknesses asap if you can! Here are today's study notes.
2) This clip is a PERFECT reflection of EXACTLY what Sharp is teaching us. Do check this out!
3) Then last for now, here's the list of weaknesses Sharp gives us, as I've reduced them to smallest number of terms possible:
1) Cooperation Needed 2) Regime's Past Policies 3) Less Able to Adjust 4) Personnel and Resources NOT Available 5) Subordinates NOT Reporting Accurately
2) We have just completed Usurper Biden's 1st 100 days. This dictatorship is still very new, at least under his aegis. However, all its powers and infiltration throughout our society is almost ancient at this point. He holds no new powers.
3) What's more, it is critical that we remember we won 2016 handily, and we won a massive reelection landslide in 2020. This forced the dictatorship to expose its own weaknesses as never before. Truth is, this is not a new Biden Dictatorship, it is an old Swamp Dictatorship.
Sharp doesn't say this, but I believe it's right here in these concluding pages. Truth is a social function. We do know this from psychological testing. It's kind of amazing. I'll explain...
2) As I recall from college, psychologists decided to test what it takes to make someone doubt what they know to be true. So the created an experiment where there were 5 or 6 actors and 1 person being tested. We'll call the person be tested by the name X.
3) All the actors in the test were instructed to tell an absolute lie, 100% false, something like 1 + 1 = 3. The group leader would then put up the question:
What does 1 + 1 equal?
Actors 1 - 5 would all confidently and obviously answer 3.