This.... is why we can't have nice things.
Funny how BLM and No justice no peace etc have a very politically correct ring to it.
If you can't speak truth you have no Freedoms .
If you can't speak truth you have no Freedoms .
Sooner or later you have no freedoms, yes.
Freedoms we do have in some limited form, and we have to exercise those thoroughly where we can.
Remember: if you are stripped of everything, go to jail, or die.
You lose.
The first most important rule of war, political or militant, doesn't matter what, is: when outnumbered or the enemy has better logistics and tools, survival comes first.
You can't win if you're dead.
So you don't give the enemy an excuse to use unlimited force against you. You make them use unlimited force without justification because that hurts them. You don't give the state the excuse or justification to use its resources against you, because they have unlimited resources compared to you. You don't alienate the public wherever possible, because they are your resources and recruiting pool and message magnifier all rolled into one. You never commit to a fight where there is the chance of decisive defeat, because for every person, from the guy just following orders to the guy on the ground leading them, for all they know, it may come down to just them. For all they know, everyone else is captured and someone has to keep it going until they can get fresh recruits/supporters.
The model is cancer: elude destruction, evade defeat, spread the message, grow as fast as physically possible, undermine your enemies and their political support, sow doubt, and destabalize them politically and economically until they can't pay their own cronies and enforcers any more.
Finally, step in to bring order, when the power vacuum creates chaos.
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