Are you preparing for what a real self defense situation might look like? Cutting cake ain’t what it’s like in the movies.

related wisdom

Paul Lafargue
The Right To Be Lazy
(1883)

https://www.marxists.org/archive/lafargue/1883/lazy/

“Speed now illuminates reality whereas light once gave objects of the world their shape.”
—Paul Virilio

“The invention of the ship was also the invention of the shipwreck.”
—Paul Virilio

“All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when we are able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must appear inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.” —Sun Tzu

"You can be sure of succeeding in your attacks if you only attack places which are undefended.
You can ensure the safety of your defense if you only hold positions that cannot be attacked.
Hence that general is skillful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skillful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.
O divine art of subtlety and secrecy! Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible; and hence we can hold the enemy's fate in our hands."—Sun Tzu, The Art of War

Never let your enemy tell you how many of you there are

#rentstrike #squattheplanet

Using tech out of sync with the contemporary and conventional methods of war can sometimes give you an advantage. Like an old style radar picking up stealth planes or balloons bypassing billion dollar missile defense systems.

Training Priorities: quick rundown

https://www.instagram.com/tv/CQbmMT7l_Ac/

U.S. Military Training Document Says Socialists Represent "Terrorist" Ideology

https://theintercept.com/2021/06/22/socialists-counterterrorism-political-terrorists-navy-antifa/

In the US context it’s going to take a lot more than guns to have any sort of successful insurgency but that more is not better military tech, that more is social. Guns and their application have in fact been a hinderance, see Seattle and Atlanta last summer as examples. Of course it’s also not just guns, but the culture around them that adds to this, but it is also true that the escalation to certain arenas of arms away from low intensity and logistics based conflict does enter a realm where the state has the advantage.

Of course in the US guns and cars are important elements to consider and certainly aren’t something that should never be deployed. The capacity for armed self defense is a need for many. This of course should come with proper training, but not create specialized security. Of course more often than not neo-nazis are shooting each other, but that doesn’t mean they won’t attack people in the street or in their homes. And it’s not just neo-nazis who are armed, but more common reactionaries too.

Belarus: “When We Rise”

https://cwc.im/WhenWeRise

Anarchists who participated in the 2020 revolt in Belarus discuss its strengths and weaknesses—and why the regime and its liberal opposition were able to prevent it from toppling the dictatorship.

An invaluable analysis from the front lines.