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You can read the book: Blueprint for Revolution: How to Use Rice Pudding, Lego Men, and Other Nonviolent Techniques to Galvanize Communities, Overthrow Dictato

by enaaem 5y ago

You can read the book: Blueprint for Revolution: How to Use Rice Pudding, Lego Men, and Other Nonviolent Techniques to Galvanize Communities, Overthrow Dictators, or Simply Change the World It proposes many interesting strategies and ideas on how to protest in dictatorships. Be subtle, use humor and focus your message on the most common people. Don't call for democracy, free speech or anything like that. You will be branded as foreign forces. Find something every Russian believes in like peace or the brotherly bonds between Russiand and Ukrainians. Pick small battles to win first.

throwoutway 5y ago
Perhaps rather than protesting, silently walking around holding signs that use of sarcasm? (To circumvent the anti-speech laws) “Putin is king! Glory to USSR!” “Synonyms for conflict may contain the words: war, special operation” “Is the special operation over yet? My mother wants to see my brother” “What’s next Vladimir?” Subtle civil disobedience that the cops will overlook until it’s too late (I’m making a lot of assumptions here) Make it so subtle that it feels like it’s a waste of time to arrest. Until everyone is doing it
- tryauuum 5y ago
  people were arrested even for protesting with empty sheets of paper
- whatshisface 5y ago
  None of those quotes are very subtle.
- enaaem 5y ago
  Turning "special operations" into a meme is a great idea. Use it jokingly in every day life. If everyone start using it you have won your first battle.
  - MonkeyClub 5y ago
    So, Putin won?
    - phoe-krk 5y ago
      Not really. After all, there are no sanctions, it's a financial special operation in Russia. The term's already become a meme in some places on the Internet.
  - deleted 5y ago
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  - reitanqild 5y ago
    The wider internet has already embraced this. After Putin cried that the sanctions are an act of war they reply that no - it is just a limited special economic operation.
- brtkdotse 5y ago
  > Subtle civil disobedience that the cops will overlook Oh, you sweet summer child.
- kikimora 5y ago
  You’ll be taken to a police dept by the first cop. Any form of protest is effectively banned. Sometimes with severe consequences.
snek_case 5y ago
I like the peaceful approach, but the scary thing here is that the dictator in power can be a straight up psychopath with no empathy. Putin doesn't seem to have any qualms with getting his perceived enemies murdered... So even to lead a peaceful movement like that, the identity of the leaders has to somehow remain a secret?
- lazide 5y ago
  He didn’t start that way (well, I mean he was, but it wasn’t obvious!), he’s just made it so everyone is actually ok (and near as I can tell, he has wide domestic support even very recently) with him obviously being that way. Part of this is the psychology of the abused spouse frankly - yeah he’s scary and terrible, but he’s on ‘my side’
SiberianDweller 5y ago
Some time ago I saw a beautiful conversation in comments for some article about Ukrainian internal political life. One of their famous politicians (and scammer) Julia Timoshenko was jailed for some months and during that time she asked to transfer her from cell to prison hospital, for many reasons and one of these reasons was an injury, hematoma on her abdomen. One of commentators said something like: - How is it possible, she's lying, here's no way to get hematoma on abdomen! And reply to him was: - When you will be jailed, you will learn: how is it possible. So, when you recommending books like this, from the people who wasn't beaten even once, li looks hilarious. How to make revolution with lego figures and funny pictures, wow. How to get your legs broken during arrest or lose one eye, do you want to know it? Even without new laws. How to get tuberculosis in prison in 30 days? How to get real imprisonment for a years for fabricated felony? I see a kind of schizophrenia here: if Putin is dictator, he's already can do what he want without approval from electorate, but then I see here accusation for me that I and people like me didn't rid off him. It's not so easy to do, you may know. More to say, when daughter of some corrupted govenor of one of Russia regions coming to USA, she got visa for extremely talented people, because she owns some startup (captured by her rich daddy). If I will try to come to USA, I must pass TOEFL, pass through interview for Amazon/Google/whatever and then work, work, and pay rent and smile, and work again. I will have no time for anything except angry dislikes in youtube. USA and EU made no way for me and people like me in Russia to be involved in politics while being in opposition to my government. It all looks like call "run into Kremlin wall and try to break it with your head, why you didn't it yet?".
- vertis 5y ago
  There is a lot of rage going around. Some of it misdirected. It's incredibly hard to have nuanced discussion on the broader internet (HN is better than some places). All attention is focused on Ukraine. They need all the help they can get. But that means forgetting that Belarusians voted to get rid of Lukaschenko and then were violently supressed. It means ignoring the Russians that are protesting even when they know they're risking everything. I saw a video of a Russian guy protesting alone in Kursk. That's an example of bravery. I really think the Voice vs Exit[0] thing is very important here. If you can't be heard and can't succeed then you go elsewhere. Both at a personal level, but also at a grand economic level. If all the highly trained people make lives outside Russia, Russia will shrink to become less significant. I will finish with a couple of short quotes from the book Why Nations Fail[1] (an incredibly dense read, but worth it). > “NATIONS FAIL TODAY because their extractive economic institutions do not create the incentives needed for people to save, invest, and innovate. Extractive political institutions support these economic institutions by cementing the power of those who benefit from the extraction.” ― Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty > “A businessman who expects his output to be stolen, expropriated, or entirely taxed away will have little incentive to work, let alone any incentive to undertake investments and innovations.” ― Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty [0]: https://genius.com/Balaji-srinivasan-silicon-valleys-ultimate-exit-annotated https://genius.com/Balaji-srinivasan-silicon-valleys-ultimat... [1]: http://whynationsfail.com/buy/ http://whynationsfail.com/buy/

by enaaem 5y ago

throwoutway 5y ago

Perhaps rather than protesting, silently walking around holding signs that use of sarcasm? (To circumvent the anti-speech laws) “Putin is king! Glory to USSR!” “Synonyms for conflict may contain the words: war, special operation” “Is the special operation over yet? My mother wants to see my brother” “What’s next Vladimir?” Subtle civil disobedience that the cops will overlook until it’s too late (I’m making a lot of assumptions here) Make it so subtle that it feels like it’s a waste of time to arrest. Until everyone is doing it

tryauuum 5y ago
people were arrested even for protesting with empty sheets of paper
whatshisface 5y ago
None of those quotes are very subtle.
enaaem 5y ago
Turning "special operations" into a meme is a great idea. Use it jokingly in every day life. If everyone start using it you have won your first battle.
- MonkeyClub 5y ago
  So, Putin won?
  - phoe-krk 5y ago
    Not really. After all, there are no sanctions, it's a financial special operation in Russia. The term's already become a meme in some places on the Internet.
- deleted 5y ago
  [deleted]
- reitanqild 5y ago
  The wider internet has already embraced this. After Putin cried that the sanctions are an act of war they reply that no - it is just a limited special economic operation.
brtkdotse 5y ago
> Subtle civil disobedience that the cops will overlook Oh, you sweet summer child.
kikimora 5y ago
You’ll be taken to a police dept by the first cop. Any form of protest is effectively banned. Sometimes with severe consequences.

snek_case 5y ago

I like the peaceful approach, but the scary thing here is that the dictator in power can be a straight up psychopath with no empathy. Putin doesn't seem to have any qualms with getting his perceived enemies murdered... So even to lead a peaceful movement like that, the identity of the leaders has to somehow remain a secret?

lazide 5y ago
He didn’t start that way (well, I mean he was, but it wasn’t obvious!), he’s just made it so everyone is actually ok (and near as I can tell, he has wide domestic support even very recently) with him obviously being that way. Part of this is the psychology of the abused spouse frankly - yeah he’s scary and terrible, but he’s on ‘my side’

SiberianDweller 5y ago

Some time ago I saw a beautiful conversation in comments for some article about Ukrainian internal political life. One of their famous politicians (and scammer) Julia Timoshenko was jailed for some months and during that time she asked to transfer her from cell to prison hospital, for many reasons and one of these reasons was an injury, hematoma on her abdomen. One of commentators said something like: - How is it possible, she's lying, here's no way to get hematoma on abdomen! And reply to him was: - When you will be jailed, you will learn: how is it possible. So, when you recommending books like this, from the people who wasn't beaten even once, li looks hilarious. How to make revolution with lego figures and funny pictures, wow. How to get your legs broken during arrest or lose one eye, do you want to know it? Even without new laws. How to get tuberculosis in prison in 30 days? How to get real imprisonment for a years for fabricated felony? I see a kind of schizophrenia here: if Putin is dictator, he's already can do what he want without approval from electorate, but then I see here accusation for me that I and people like me didn't rid off him. It's not so easy to do, you may know. More to say, when daughter of some corrupted govenor of one of Russia regions coming to USA, she got visa for extremely talented people, because she owns some startup (captured by her rich daddy). If I will try to come to USA, I must pass TOEFL, pass through interview for Amazon/Google/whatever and then work, work, and pay rent and smile, and work again. I will have no time for anything except angry dislikes in youtube. USA and EU made no way for me and people like me in Russia to be involved in politics while being in opposition to my government. It all looks like call "run into Kremlin wall and try to break it with your head, why you didn't it yet?".

vertis 5y ago
There is a lot of rage going around. Some of it misdirected. It's incredibly hard to have nuanced discussion on the broader internet (HN is better than some places). All attention is focused on Ukraine. They need all the help they can get. But that means forgetting that Belarusians voted to get rid of Lukaschenko and then were violently supressed. It means ignoring the Russians that are protesting even when they know they're risking everything. I saw a video of a Russian guy protesting alone in Kursk. That's an example of bravery. I really think the Voice vs Exit[0] thing is very important here. If you can't be heard and can't succeed then you go elsewhere. Both at a personal level, but also at a grand economic level. If all the highly trained people make lives outside Russia, Russia will shrink to become less significant. I will finish with a couple of short quotes from the book Why Nations Fail[1] (an incredibly dense read, but worth it). > “NATIONS FAIL TODAY because their extractive economic institutions do not create the incentives needed for people to save, invest, and innovate. Extractive political institutions support these economic institutions by cementing the power of those who benefit from the extraction.” ― Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty > “A businessman who expects his output to be stolen, expropriated, or entirely taxed away will have little incentive to work, let alone any incentive to undertake investments and innovations.” ― Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty [0]: https://genius.com/Balaji-srinivasan-silicon-valleys-ultimate-exit-annotated https://genius.com/Balaji-srinivasan-silicon-valleys-ultimat... [1]: http://whynationsfail.com/buy/ http://whynationsfail.com/buy/