jrvan said:
Stormblood said:
All this behaviour is consistent with Britain being ruled by Aries. Arrogant, belligerent, overbearing, insensitive... This is obviously, like you stated, amplified and negatively directed by the enemy. Nevertheless, the citizens are responsible for letting it happen and not properly rebelling and boycotting it.
I also have to disagree with blaming civilians for not rebelling.
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I'm not sure what you mean by boycotting the nation though. People still need to buy the necessities to live. They still need food and drink and everything else. All of this and the taxes go towards supporting the nation. How are they going to stop paying taxes when it's automatically deducted from their paychecks? Unless you mean this would be organized by the businesses, but then that's out of the hands of the average civilians who aren't business owners.
Boycotting and rebelling.
Examples I can make for the current situation:
:arrow: stop eating and drinking at places that overcharge you. Example: when someone asks you more than £5 for a margherita (the most basic pizza which is topped with tomato sauce, mozzarella, extra-virgin olive oil and basil), you should not buy it, especially if ingredients are low quality. Same if they ask you £1 or £2 for a bottle of water, even more so if the bottle is only half a little. If they give you tap water and asks you to pay for it, you call the police, as tap water is not even healthy here judging from smell and taste. Boycott + negative advertisement!
:arrow: a Uber/taxi asking you to pay £18/20 for less than a 2 miles drive? Boycott + negative advertisement. That is called extortion.
:arrow: Train/public transport overcharging you but their vehicles being dirty and poorly attended to, no sockets and WiFi not working properly? Refund claim. Here, for example, trains cost 2.5x (if you have a railcard) to 4x what they cost in Italy, and wages are not proportional. If they want to charge those fees, they should be clean, have sockets and good-quality WiFi.
:arrow: someone asks you for a covid pass to go to the restaurant, get on the train or whatever? BOYCOTT + negative advertisement (reviews, recommendations, media posts, etc)! It's a violation of data protection laws. You cannot be forced (nor required) to show your medical history to anyone.
:arrow: someone asks you for vaccination proof to secure a job offer? BOYCOTT + negative advertisement + negligence and human rights claims!
:arrow: someone tries to force you to wear a mask? Politely refuse. If they insist, tell them you are exempt. Exempt people are NOT required to wear anything that identifies them as exempt. Wearing badges is voluntary. If they ask you for proof of exemption, politely refuse and you could tell them GP have said they won't release any proof. If they insist, make them aware it is illegal (in nearly every Western country) to insist to be shown medical history, as it is protected by doctor-client privilege. And that they also cannot legally deny you access to places where you can sort necessities (food, water, GP visits, workplaces, and similar).
:arrow: people trying to force you to support certain political parties, pressure groups, think tanks, charities, etc? Boycott + negative advertisement
When making negative advertisement, it is very important to resort to emotion as much as possible. Emotion is what can sway people to your side. Talk about how they made you feel, and paint a perfect emotional picture that shows the person you are boycotting/rebelling against to be a true villain through and through. Getting to people's heart gains the support you deserve.
Social media do NOT remove each and every post and comment, unless you start becoming too popular for their tastes, which then gives you the option to redirect your audience to free speech channels, and make them boycott sovietised social media. When you're not popular enough, they'll only bother remove a few posts and comments, if any. You're more likely to get a covid banner linking people to manipulated information than you are getting your posts removed.
This type of boycotting can be extended to any business and institution that acts in an anti-human way. Not only that, it may expand your financial resources (refund claims) and gain you support to start class-action lawsuits against infamous people, businesses and institutions. Contrary to popular belief, there are still members of the judicial system that care about justice and fairness. I know people who had their mask fines completely overturned in court, and also received compensation to cover legal expenses and so on.
The more people band up together, the more resistance growth. Negative advertisement can then expand to awareness campaigns and so, to boost growth even more. The best is when you can get to employers, human resources departments, payroll departments and even law enforcement and military units, why not. That way you can also stop blackmail governments into stopping coercive measures. That can be done by refusing en masse to pay taxes. Then, if they fine you, you don't pay fines, deeming them illegal. If then they try to arrest you, you have your friendly neighbourhood spidermen (i.e. awaken law enforcement, military and security officers) protecting you from arrests.
It's a gradual process, not an overnight thing.
Then you can move take over entire neighbourhoods and media outlets, and slowly reclaiming society. Employers can enforce non-mask mandates, and not ask for proof of vaccination, and so on. And also ban idiots who try to pressure other into vaxxing. Jab rates are heavily inflated. In reality, not even half the population in most Western countries has had covid jabs. They make up absurd rates to pressure people into getting jabbed, just like they do with inflated numbers and fake food/fuel shortages. These create moral panic to try and manifest the desired result, which is being effective for fuel and food because most people are narcissistic arsehole who think they're the only ones to exist in the world. If they didn't stock up out of panic and instead thought about their neighbours, no shortage would happen. It's all a mind game. It called psychological and information warfare for a reason.
It is very idealistic and hard to overcome. But it can work if everyone does their civic duty (i.e. act, instead of just keeping to themselves.) Without counteracting their information and psychological warfare slowly and steadily like the JoS has been doing for years, there's no way the enemy can be defeated fully. This is the reality of things. If everyone makes their contribution, slowly and steadily things can change for the better. This is how society works: by everyone caring and doing their jobs. Well-oiled gears in a beautiful machinery.
If people care only about themselves and remain idle, the machine becomes as jammed as it is today and it breaks down like it is today. The butterfly effect is related to this.