Sweater Girl is back with another lesson. This time she’s teaching Gene Sharp tactics. I really need to research her background. Yes, Trump leans into authoritarian theatrics, but the people amplifying these tactics aren’t fighting for socialism, and the funding streams behind them aren’t exactly grassroots. There’s an infrastructure here—front groups, donor networks, polished manuals—dressed up as spontaneous resistance. The aesthetics say “community,” but the playbook says something else entirely.
The video opens with a provocation—What if we weren’t afraid to get arrested? It’s time to learn about OTPOR!—but skips over the basic context of the organization being invoked. Angela Baker’s recommendation fits a pattern I’ve seen before: presenting Otpor as a neutral protest model while leaving out the political landscape that shaped it. Blueprint for Revolution, the book she cites, was written by Srđa Popović, one of Otpor’s leaders. The group received support from the National Endowment for Democracy, USAID, and pro‑democracy funding networks that included George Soros’ foundations, which Soros later acknowledged supporting during the 2000 uprising against Milošević. None of this automatically discredits the material, but it does mean the playbook isn’t organic or context‑free.
I’m sitting down to film now, but I wanted to remind you that the bots and agent provocateurs are working overtime right now in my comments and all over the Internet.
I just blocked more than a dozen accounts telling Americans to riot or shoot ICE agents or commit other acts of violence. Please understand that when the regime is trying this hard to get you to do something, and all of the bots are aligned in their messaging and messaging aligns with the desires of Stephen Miller, we cannot possibly be foolish enough to fall for it.
Hold the line. Do not give up and lay down. Do not give in to their manipulations and your rage and make stupid devastating mistakes right now. We must move in ways that are tactical and well-planned and help our cause.
(Internet slang, intransitive) To post violent threats on the Internet, ostensibly as an everyday citizen, but actually working as an undercover federal agent. “How do you do fellow channers? Any bombings planned for today?” “Stfu glowie, stop fedposting”.
I’m not really a fan of Stoicism, but I haven’t really given it a fair chance, so I decided to download Meditations by Marcus Aurelius and Seneca’s Letters on Ethics. I have a tendency to cherry pick quotes for inspiration though, so I looked up some from Seneca.
YouTube’s been recommending feminist videos to me lately. It beats the random lesbian‑themed content it used to throw at me, I suppose. When I saw blue balls in a thumbnail, I clicked expecting a quick laugh. The laugh didn’t last long. Eventually all I could do was roll my eyes.
Treating the media as a battlefield, a secretive army intelligence squad scoured Gaza for material to bolster Israeli hasbara — including questionable claims that would justify the killing of Palestinian reporters.
Acceptance of the proposition that the present war is imperialist, i.e., a war between two big freebooters for world domination and plunder, does not yet prove that we should reject defence of the Swiss fatherland. We, Swiss, are defending our neutrality; we have stationed troops on our boundaries for the express purpose of avoiding participation in this robber war!
This is the argument of the social-patriots, the Grütlians, both within the Socialist Party and outside it.
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