[yellow, a finger up, looking smug]
The answer to oppression is NEVER violence
Turn the other cheek
Pacifism always wins
You could earn rights by asking nicely instead

[yellow, proudly showing us a huge book]
Don’t believe me?
Open a history book!

[yellow, looking frustrated as they are shuffling through the book’s pages]
Ok so…
Uhm…
Not this page…
Wait…
The next one…
Awkward…
Another…
Yeah but…
For sure this time…

[yellow, sweating, protecting their book, a hand raised towards us]
Can you stop looking?
You’re being rude
That’s my book

https://thebad.website/comic/please_resist_responsibly

  • plyth@feddit.orgEnglish
    12·
    6 days ago

    When the AI drones are ready to clear Russian trenches, violence won’t be an option anymore. It’s important to find good arguments and ways to convince peacefully.

    • DudleyMason@lemmy.ml
      2·
      6 days ago

      Sure it is.

      I mean hell, you just might become the first people on history to win their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of their oppressors. But I’m betting on plenty of violence being the only practicable alternative to the ruling class shuffling is right past serfdom and into actual slavery.

      • plyth@feddit.orgEnglish
        12·
        6 days ago

        My point is that the population can’t win against killer drones. If the drones are good enough to kill the Russian army then they are good enough to kill western civilians.

        • DudleyMason@lemmy.ml
          2·
          5 days ago

          I guess that might be persuasive to someone who’s never read any history books.

          Guerillas with a home field advantage defeat technologically superior forces all the time. Drones won’t change that calculus.

          • plyth@feddit.orgEnglish
            12·
            5 days ago

            Guerilla needs free movement and the freedom to choose engagement. With surveillance drones how is that possible?

            • DudleyMason@lemmy.ml
              2·
              5 days ago

              The same way it’s been possible in surveillance states since the invention of surveillance.

              The techniques change with the tech, but nothing is infallible, including and especially the enforcers of the ruling class. But as long as you believe them to be infallible, they don’t need to be. you’ll be too cowed to resist either way.

              • plyth@feddit.orgEnglish
                11·
                5 days ago

                The guards can be bribed until the guards are AI.

                The opportunity for guerilla warfare is also a trap because it makes it less important to act before everything is locked up.

                • DudleyMason@lemmy.ml
                  2·
                  5 days ago

                  Acting before would be best, but we’re at least a generation away from having enough people willing to engage in meaningful resistance to make doing so anything other than a fancy method of suicide.

                  To be clear: I hope from the bottom of my little commie heart that I’m wrong and I’ve totally misread the moment, but I don’t think I have.