It's what some of us keep saying: We™️ massively outnumber Them™️ & if we stand together we don't even need violence - the overwhelming force of community is enough.

[jwcph@helvede.net]

RE: https://mas.to/@emmettoconnell/116081428127194981

It's what some of us keep saying: We️ massively outnumber Them️ & if we stand together we don't even need violence - the overwhelming force of community is enough.

BTW this is also what the 3.5% number means.

#resist

[reggiehere@mastodon.social]

@jwcph

Do you have an idea of how many States simultaneously protesting would stretch the govt to breaking point?

[jwcph@helvede.net]

@ReggieHere Well, I can't take credit for it, but yes, We️ have a very good idea; it's 3.5% of the population - and it doesn't have to be actively protesting, as in being in the streets holding signs; it's "just" participation at whatever level you can https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190513-it-only-takes-35-of-people-to-change-the-world

[reggiehere@mastodon.social]

@jwcph

From the outside it looks that the govt is trying to pick States off one by one, presumably to avoid stretching limited resources.

Does that stand up?

[jwcph@helvede.net]

@ReggieHere I'm by no means an expert, or even very knowledgeable about this, but I would say no - the only way this could work is if communities in all the other states do nothing while the regime is working on one of them, simply standing by & waiting for their turn in the grinder, and it seems wildly improbable to me that they would do that.

It's a bit like the "bad guys attacking one at a time" trope from movies, except in reverse - it doesn't work that way in real life.