I have explained my advocacy for nonviolent resistance to oppression many times. But the world is addicted to war and has convinced most people it’s the only solution. Wars dampen a situation temporarily but then the same issues unresolved show their face again.

I don’t like it but I understand why Hamas and Hezbollah exist though they must know they’ll have no real impact on Israel. 

Violence grew out of frustration that no good-faith negotiation and compromise  was being pursued.

The analysis of nonviolent direct action by Palestinians while the IDF continued its predations along with colonists’ violence is quite remarkable. It showed it could be done.

It could still be done now. But it seems like courage is in short supply.

On virtually every continent, nonviolent movements for social and political change are attempting to forge peaceful transitions to democracy, guarantee human rights, secure justice, bring down repressive dictatorships, and end military occupations. 

During the First, Al-Aqsa, Intifada a mass nonviolent movement was underway in the Palestinian uprising, a remarkably coherent nonviolent mobilization to end a military occupation. 

Walter Lippman called nonviolent action the “political equivalent of war.” 

Nonviolent action, if sometimes contentious and defiant, favours outcomes of reconciliation and democracy, things that military approaches and guerrilla warfare cannot claim. Nonviolent resistance was less costly than armed struggle and fit the limited abilities of the disarmed Palestinians. 

The forming of Israeli-Palestinian committees, begun in 1981, represented the first visible indication of the approaching intifada, as the activist intellectuals broke with tradition and pressed for direct negotiations with the Israelis. The Israelis rejected this approach. 

Two years into the intifada, an Israeli journalist wrote, “Practically no weapons have been used against the occupation army. No one doubts that secret arsenals of guns exist in the occupied territories—they are, in fact, used to execute informers—yet the decision not to use them against the occupation soldiers has been generally obeyed. This is all the more remarkable, and perhaps even unique, if one considers that thousands of close relatives of people killed, maimed and imprisoned are seething with rage.” 

Hunter S. Thompson called it the “Geneva Conventions of the mind.”

 

Wars make millions for a few people and at the same time reduce the population by millions.

23 minutes ago, Photoguy21 said:

Wars make millions for a few people and at the same time reduce the population by millions.

Win win ... 😂

Very nice to mention all the conventions etc...but behind any war, it's usually an issue of money by those in charge. Even the Hamas or Hezbollah do not wish the ongoing fights and wars to Stop as it would not justify their power, existence, control on their people and all the money they are getting.

Then again, some of us deal in terms of right and wrong...

This new age cult leader crackpot guy is probably right.

Unless there is a one world government and nations are abolished, there will always be war. For one thing, not all countries have the same amount of natural resources.

"We don't believe in nations. It is idiotic – what is the need of all these nations? Yes, a world government is needed, but not nations. Unless we create a world government, wars will continue because these nations will go on fighting…"

6 hours ago, Photoguy21 said:

Wars make millions for a few people and at the same time reduce the population by millions.

It's called the 'Theatre of War', 'World Stage' etc for good reasons.

War is just the best excuse politicians ad central banks to print money from thin air and take countries/taxpayers into more debt.
These politicians are owned by loobyists: Big Oil (Bush2), the Tech & Financial Industrial Complexes (Trump), the Military Industrial Complex (Starmer), and so on.

The 'pAnDemiC' was another (excuse for politicians and central banks to print money from thin air and take countries/taxpayers into more debt.).

All governments are our enemy - it's us slaves against them

Please understand this.

The government can expand the money supply, and ordinary people eat the inflation.

It can spend your tax dollars on performative military operations you never voted for.

It will pass laws that narrow civil liberties, then sell the whole package with dog<deleted> talking points that won’t match reality.

When this machine turns, it does not reliably translate into better lives for you.

The money flows upward into the same circles every time: defense contractors, the security state, and technocratic firms that profit from surveillance, data systems, and “compliance” infrastructure.

You are left with the bill, your children will eat the fallout, and everyone gets a free lecture about why it was necessary.

14 hours ago, save the frogs said:

This new age cult leader crackpot guy is probably right.

Unless there is a one world government and nations are abolished, there will always be war. For one thing, not all countries have the same amount of natural resources.

Rajneesh

"We don't believe in nations. It is idiotic – what is the need of all these nations? Yes, a world government is needed, but not nations. Unless we create a world government, wars will continue because these nations will go on fighting…"

Rajneesh! Even with a world govt, there will still be tribal conflicts. Even removing weapons, someone will use a tree branch.

1 minute ago, unblocktheplanet said:

Rajneesh! Even with a world govt, there will still be tribal conflicts. Even removing weapons, someone will use a tree branch.

and sibling rivalry

and psychological warfare on internet forums

14 hours ago, Tourist2 said:

It's called the 'Theatre of War', 'World Stage' etc for good reasons.

War is just the best excuse politicians ad central banks to print money from thin air and take countries/taxpayers into more debt.
These politicians are owned by loobyists: Big Oil (Bush2), the Tech & Financial Industrial Complexes (Trump), the Military Industrial Complex (Starmer), and so on.

The 'pAnDemiC' was another (excuse for politicians and central banks to print money from thin air and take countries/taxpayers into more debt.).

All governments are our enemy - it's us slaves against them

Please understand this.

The government can expand the money supply, and ordinary people eat the inflation.

It can spend your tax dollars on performative military operations you never voted for.

It will pass laws that narrow civil liberties, then sell the whole package with dog<deleted> talking points that won’t match reality.

When this machine turns, it does not reliably translate into better lives for you.

The money flows upward into the same circles every time: defense contractors, the security state, and technocratic firms that profit from surveillance, data systems, and “compliance” infrastructure.

You are left with the bill, your children will eat the fallout, and everyone gets a free lecture about why it was necessary.

Please point me to that awesome quote. I'd like to read the whole piece.

37 minutes ago, unblocktheplanet said:

Rajneesh! Even with a world govt, there will still be tribal conflicts. Even removing weapons, someone will use a tree branch.

More likely they will use cars.

29 minutes ago, unblocktheplanet said:

Please point me to that awesome quote. I'd like to read the whole piece.

It was a tweet on X but you can paste it into chatgpt or another AI and ask it to expand and explain to you (or to write a 'whole piece' based on it).

If you use X https://x.com/MorganC000 understands this stuff.

Bonus: https://morganc000.substack.com/p/strait-theatre
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Edited July 12Jul 12 by Tourist2

1 hour ago, unblocktheplanet said:

Rajneesh! Even with a world govt, there will still be tribal conflicts. Even removing weapons, someone will use a tree branch.

If you believe in the Buddhist concept of Karma, then that may explain wars to some extent. If individuals have karma, then maybe countries also have karma.

If a country has bombs falling over its head, maybe it has accumulated too much negative karma and the grim reaper has decided its payback time.

Some countries have never and probably will never be bombed or be at war.

Of course you can dismiss this theory as nonsense. No bother replying. I understand most people will.

But neither does anyone have a better explanation as to why some countries are perpetually peaceful and others war zones.

Edited July 12Jul 12 by save the frogs

10 hours ago, BritManToo said:

More likely they will use cars.

Rajneesh's famous 93 Roll-Royce motorcars!

Wars in general are evil and tend to benefit the super rich, but a highly ignorant war of choice is as evil a war as one can muster up.

11 hours ago, Tourist2 said:

It was a tweet on X but you can paste it into chatgpt or another AI and ask it to expand and explain to you (or to write a 'whole piece' based on it).

If you use X https://x.com/MorganC000 understands this stuff.

Bonus: https://morganc000.substack.com/p/strait-theatre
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Yeah, can't find anything on Morgan like this. Don't use AI.