Re:The Color of Surveillance: Monitoring of Poor and Working...
by dsfyu404ed on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @01:51PM
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>And what, may I ask, are your pea shooters going to do against the firepower of a corrupt nation state?
How do you say "make controlling you economically untenable" in Pashto or "bomb your way to the negotiating table" in Irish?
It's not about winning, it's about making tyranny expensive and unattractive. Insurgency is basically a bloody tax on doing something that a large enough subset of the populace finds sufficiently objectionable. The more armed the populace the higher the tax rate.
How do you say "make controlling you economically untenable" in Pashto or "bomb your way to the negotiating table" in Irish?
It's not about winning, it's about making tyranny expensive and unattractive. Insurgency is basically a bloody tax on doing something that a large enough subset of the populace finds sufficiently objectionable. The more armed the populace the higher the tax rate.