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1. cjd (cjd@pkteerium.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 03-Sep-2023 17:41:23 JST cjd

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   • cjd
   The lesson is clear: IMPOSE ECONOMIC PAIN.
   And make it clear that you CAN impose a lot more.
   
   Like in every struggle, the objective is to unite your allies and divide your enemies. Economic pain divides your enemies because nobody likes losing money.
   
   Investors start making phone calls.
   Political donors start making phone calls.
   Everybody wants the pain to stop.
   
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   However, you have to keep public opinion, or at least the opinion of your base, unified. If the enemy can win the moral high ground battle then they can send out the army to burn you alive.
   
   If you control the media, there's almost no limit to how much pain you can induce, consider for example the Mostly Peaceful Protests™ of 2020.
   
   Even if you only control your own base's media, you have a lot of power, consider for example ethic conflict in the middle east. Each side of the conflict exclusively follows their own media, which tells the story with them as the hero. So because they have no concern about being vilified in front of their base, they can use sabotage, terrorism, etc in order to inflict serious pain.
   
   The major mis-step of Trudeau et al was to project power without controlling moral high ground. So even as they had significant control over the old media, enough photos and videos leaked out to cast them as the bad guys, and the truckers were just illegally parked.
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   • cjd (cjd@pkteerium.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 03-Sep-2023 17:41:24 JST cjd
     Interesting one from Kulak: https://anarchonomicon.substack.com/p/the-truckers-won-everything
     
     1. > The Freedom Convoy was the most wildly immediately successful protest in Canadian history, maybe WORLD history.
     
     2. > What people don't remember is what happened in the immediate aftermath: The government caved on absolutely everything within a week for the most important things, and then a month or so for the rest.
     
     3. Trudeau needed the Emergencies Act in order to fight the protesters effectively.
     
     4. And he was able to declare it alone, but he needed the support of congress.
     
     5. And they were willing to give it to him FOR A PRICE, they wanted to be included in everything - they wanted to get power over him.
     
     6. So rather than allow himself to become ensnared in The Swamp that is the Canadian senate, Trudeau voluntarily rescinded the act.
     
     7. At this point there was nothing left that they could do. They had no emergency declaration and sooner or later, the judges would undoubtedly start to challenge their freezing of bank accounts.
     
     8. All lockdown measures were quickly (and QUIETLY) rescinded.
     
     9.
     > WITHIN 1 month the trucker convoy had effected a hostile overthrow of the Governments of Alberta and the official opposition, the Conservative Party of Canada, from pro to anti- lockdown, and crushed the moderate wing of the conservative movement.
     
     > At Multiple points Trudeau was nearly forced out by his own party and his government was humiliated with most of it's perceived power destroyed, it now exists as a rump failing to pass gun control bills (IN CANADA!) against moderate opposition.
     
     > Within 2-4 months all domestic restrictions were gone and within 8 months even the pantomime of international restrictions didn't exist, Canada had fewer covid restrictions than the US.
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