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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat Would Happen If Every "Resistor" Did What They Did Yesterday in the PNW?
Jack Hopkins blog.
A GREAT READ
https://www.jackhopkinsnow.com/
Kristi Noem, now Homeland Security Secretary
wanted to inform travelers why flights were delayed and TSA agents unpaid ... a partisan ad in disguise, blaming Democrats for the shutdown.
Airport authorities from Seattle to Los Angeles quietly refused.They cited policy the Hatch Act
They didnt form a committee or hold a press conference. They simply said, No.
The Power of NO
Authoritarians rise on obedience not genius. Their systems depend on millions of small yesses clerks stamping papers officers enforcing bad orders managers looking the other way. Break that chain once and the illusion of inevitability cracks.
Airport authorities from Seattle to Los Angeles quietly refused.They cited policy the Hatch Act
They didnt form a committee or hold a press conference. They simply said, No.
The Power of NO
Authoritarians rise on obedience not genius. Their systems depend on millions of small yesses clerks stamping papers officers enforcing bad orders managers looking the other way. Break that chain once and the illusion of inevitability cracks.
Tell that to ass-kissing Apple and Google.
LOTS MORE.
https://www.jackhopkinsnow.com/p/what-would-happen-if-every-resistor
All the articles on his substack are good reads.
Repost them. We all need reminders.
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What Would Happen If Every "Resistor" Did What They Did Yesterday in the PNW? (Original Post)
usonian
Tuesday
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Jack Hopkins always is bracing, strengthening for the work ahead. Focuses on effectiveness too.
summer_in_TX
Wednesday
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Irish_Dem
(76,305 posts)1. More people need to say NO. TRUMP DOES NOT OWN US.
usonian
(21,540 posts)2. I sent Tim Cook a short email.
Do not obey in advance.
Historian Timothy Snyders first lesson in his book On Tyranny is Do not obey in advance. To obey a tyrant before you are compelled to do so teaches them what they will be able to get you to do, easily, without even needing to expend the resources and energy it takes to carry out that part of their agenda.
Historian Timothy Snyders first lesson in his book On Tyranny is Do not obey in advance. To obey a tyrant before you are compelled to do so teaches them what they will be able to get you to do, easily, without even needing to expend the resources and energy it takes to carry out that part of their agenda.
Amaryllis
(10,747 posts)3. Excellent. Thank you.
summer_in_TX
(3,874 posts)4. Jack Hopkins always is bracing, strengthening for the work ahead. Focuses on effectiveness too.
I credit his attitude and perspective with coming through the election prepared for what happened and ready to stand up for democracy from the beginning. No immobilization from fear or sadness, although I wasn't free of either, but it was tempered with resolve.
He's one of perhaps the handful of writers for whom I am a paying subscriber.
DFW
(59,158 posts)5. I imagine that resistors in the PNW do what resistors do everywhere
They impede the flow of current in whatever circuit they have been installed.