normalizing logging in from the deep web and posting on fedi from a crapily managed server on an old laptop that's about to explode but it's full disk encrypted so whatever
@Taweret yea,h well you see, actually we spent all this money on this Riot Gear we've got all these tanks and rubber bullets, and if we don't use it all up, we won't get the budget r renewed next year so we gotta just use all these up.
the arthashastra is the greatest thing ever writtenKautylia's near Encypcledic treatise on Political Power in Ancient India, A self help book for kings, How to Be a Maharaja. Kautylia advises a king to study the school Lokayota, the worldly philosophy, the material athiest, proto scientific blaspemy ( 🙃 talk about an *enlightened despot )
IDFShimon Naveh says some shit like "I jointed the IDF because I wanted to kill people" also the "the Palestinians are in the right and ultimately they will win, but that's not my business, I'm a just a soldier" weird
Anybody ever read Psycological Operations in Guerilla Warfare i.e. the pamphlet the CIA published to train the Contras and other central american deathsquads? Actually a fun read
tiqquni like tiqqun and invisible comittee but i distrust people that won't just say words like anarchy and communism, or if they think critiquing hierarchy and values like freedom and equality is passe.
You want federations of autonomous organizations, Right? Right? Or are you just talking out of your ass and you just want to be a cool french guy babblering while drinking coffee and puffing on a ciggarrette. Is that what it's all about?
post modern military scienceanybody else read those papers on Military "Swarming" put out by the Rand Corporation late 90's early 2000's? Swarming and the future of Conflict or some bullshit, it conviently came out right before iraq, there's some interesting internal documents on the iraq war in like 2005 that detail the tactics of the "insurgency" using a lot of the swarming analysis:neocat_uwu: networks of autonomous insurgent cells that can't coodinate and change form rapidly, distributed weapons caches and light weaponry allowing for rapid deployment, networked intelligence being highly responsive to the occupation force.
and there was also Network Centric Warfare and Power of the Edge whole genre of 90's futurist military utopianism that the generals were vibing too,, like soldiers wear cool helmets with HUDs and coodinate strikes with satelites, I think a lot of them were Command and Conquer and reading Nick Land on the low, but mix that with neo and Paleoconservatism of the previous generation, who had many many theoretical/doctrinal breakthrus in the 80's after the Pentagon stopped doing acid and finding themselves in the 70's, Boyd had is OODA loop and his Powerpoint, and there was this mothafucking piece of shit and his Manuever Warfare(compare with Gramsci's "War of Manuever) basically became the dominant military doctrine over the crude Clausewitzean Attrition based doctrine of the Old Wars, and now these think tank funded technocratic ghouls pushing Swarming and Network Centric Warfare, they came in as the hip new bart simpson tech entrepreneurs of the military industrial complex.
And this shit is all literally US Military Doctrine today, it's all part of COIN and Joint military operations, along with Targeted Strikes" or Crisis Management, Small Wars etc.
Oh, let's not forget the IDF
Shalom Naveh aka "Foucault on Steroid"s, writings on "Rhizomatic Manuever" their application of striated space, their description fo the palestinian resistance as an "infestation" , Shamone wrote a history of military science, was very influenced by soviet Deep Battle and considered it like , I believe Tiqqun or Invisible Comittee mentions him somewhere
Certainly we can't rely on the kindness or openmindedness of our enenemies, but yeah you can't write off your opponent either in favor of some cartoonish good vs evil narrative where are enemies are mindless robots and we are the morally perfect heroes. No, any given person can be on either side of a picket line, a cop or outlaw given the basically random circumstances of our life. And if we are interested in something like a social revolution then that means a great number of people have to be able to change their minds, to change and grow. And all of our political action should consider the dimension of persuasion, we should always ask what our actions communicate? That doesn't mean some shallow concerned for 'optics' or appealing to the CNN target audience, the fictitious silent majority, no, but consider the real people you've met, at school, at work, people who go to bars etc. What do they value, what do they believe, what would change their mind.
Re cops we also shouldn't underestimate their intelligence and profficiency, many highly intlligent, educated and ambitious people become cops along with the C student bullies that make up the rank and file. Bonanno says in Locked Up
"I've met many stupid anarchists and many intelligent cops."
Don't think you can outsmart a cop or turn them into a double agent, this isn't a fucking movie, llol, tell them nothing. Literally just sit there, make it awkward , make them not want to talk to you, or if you can't not say anything speak completely off topic, ask them questions, get them to open up and then just ask for a lawyer lol. It's still a battle of will, and they will fuck your mind up if they fell like it, because they're sadists / murderers, thugs, there is really no convincing them, many cops are fanatatics in more ways than one there's no convincing. Still siscipline and courage is impressive, especially to people who become cops, in fact they have nothing to contempt for informants, they hate them almost as bad as cops that defect, so there are serious, brutally violent consequences to leaving the police. But when you're ultimately right, factually morally, there's a certain power that has that can't really be measured, contrasting that with the heinous brutallity of the police, stripping the moral/cultural legitamacy by dispelling all the myths, exposing the true nature of hte system and proving that anarchists are right.
As with any personal confrontation, a cop, like a nazi, a politician a capitalist, or some other class enememy, it's not about persuading them per se, as much as being persuasive to the observer, it's the same principle as with internet arguments
@ciggysmokebringer obviously humans are humans, and everyhone has the same basic needs and desires of anyone else, attempts to dehumanize people are wrong not just on a moral level but it gives you an unrealistic picture of reality. People change their minds / defect all the time
