[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
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.
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.