Imagine a country with a lot of bad people in high positions and the good and reasonable people dont have enough political strength or are ostracised by a good portion of society.
So there is this guy who knows there isnt a polítical solution. He wants to do something but he doesnt know what to do: attack the bad people? Seems logical but he knows they have infinite substitutes and that they can play the victim card .
The other option is to go full false flag in order to provoke a response from society.
What is the correct choice in this hypothetical scenario? I want to know cause I am writing manga about civil unrest and since you know a lot about politics, you could help me make ir more realisitc.
Whoever has the sustained power to do violence becomes the government.
Aiden Foster
In my imaginary manga, the country has well protected infrastructure. And that would piss the common folk tho, no one wants to live without electricity
Ethan Bailey
Sounds like you already know the answer
Brandon Bell
Your protagonist should realize that the best way to preserve his way of life is to form and protect a bunch of small tightly knit communities. There's no way to change the world with a handful of people, there's nothing they can't spin to fit the narrative, there's no way to save everyone.
Jacob Johnson
The victim card doesn't matter, society doesn't matter. An ideologue acting out of principle would attack their weak spots provoking an over reaction from the targets, like killing their close friends and family member and/or targeting their wallets with terror attacks on their businesses. Always remember, there are no assurances against terror
Grayson Richardson
>What is the correct choice just vote harder next time, goy
Nathan Robinson
The protagonist knows that you can preserve a little community inside a bigger territory. The laws of the country are going to fuck him and his beloved ones anyway.
The political action is useless in the setting of the manga, the only option left is a little more active.
Jason Gomez
Can’t**
Carson Smith
>There is no way to change the world with a handful of people correct, but there are ways to create fear, uncertainty and doubt in the internal security if lone wolfs manage to attack high profil targets or structures/actors close to those high profile targets. It is basic 4th gen warfare
Oliver Price
The only way your theoretical protagonist can succeed is by harnessing the same forces that seek to destroy him or her. He or she would have to have a comprehensive simple platform accompanying a cultural awakening surrounding some sort of inherent characteristic that the protagonist shares in common with other characters.
The protagonist could never, say, encourage outdated methods such as death squads or outright violence but instead support the creation of a national state composed of people with the aforementioned common characteristics. Such a platform would have to be as broad as possible to attract common characters with a few common characteristics who are otherwise entirely different and disagree on anything. A major plot motivator for this could be oppression by the government based on such a common characteristic that otherwise serves as a catalyst for unity.
Juan Peterson
In this fictional scenario, you kidnap and torture the intelligence agents, until you get to the insurance files which you release causing the hypothetical Great Boogaloo.
>t.early 20th century with centralized propaganda outlets Grandpa this doesn't work in an atomized society with cleavages as deep as the Gran Canyon. It would just be an epistemic community amongst many
Michael Smith
the "common folk" are unnecessary cowards who are owed absolutely nothing.
Luis Rivera
just stop working muh dude. no work nothing gets added to the coffers, the economy tanks we shit in the fields with the mexicans and farm. join us in central valley calif
Maybe the character should blow up a statue or monument. It is a more sympathetic action than killing someone, which could turn off readers. It can move the plot forward as different characters react to the news.
Logan Sanchez
Set up some roadblocks.
Jordan Harris
>forward the plot by Boomers reading the news Kek another grand pa. Nobody reads the news. Msm is happy if they reach 30% of which maybe 20% believe them
Gabriel Edwards
The character is already off the grid. In my manga, he left his country and went to some poor country to learn how to work in the fields with nothing but his own hands.
But he knows that’s not enough.
Isaiah Russell
>And that would piss the common folk tho, no one wants to live without electricity that's the point most people are contempt as long as they have food water and a roof, you want to start an uprising rob them of that. they will lash out at the closest problem in their life, generators or substations are good targets.
Kevin Lewis
"content" not "contempt"
Christopher Cook
They will hate the lone wolf and his ideology, not the goverment bro
Nicholas Kelly
patience. ww3 soon, a hard reset is coming
Kayden Sanchez
The lone wolf doesn't care. A lone wolf acting from principles doesn't care for short term outcomes. Take a look at Tarrant, read his manifesto
Asher Hall
the most effective thing insurgents can do is sabotage infrastructure and assassinate important figures. for example if many major bridges in the US were damaged or destroyed the entire country would grind to a halt, since the US depends on trucks to move stuff around. damaging a major power station could plunge entire cities into chaos. don't commit terrorism though it's a bad idea, we're just talking theoreticals :)
Jason Perry
maybe at the start but if things don't return to normal fast the blames shifts.
Anthony Stewart
Insh'Allah.
Evan Garcia
The lone wolf wants his actions to have an impact and gather popular support not appear as a lunatic. It is the whole point of the manga
>What is the correct choice in this hypothetical scenario? I want to know cause I am writing manga about civil unrest and since you know a lot about politics, you could help me make ir more realisitc. That is an interesting scenario to consider.
As a hypothetical the character damage the system as much as possible while being under the guise of trying to help it. As a complement the character writes a manifesto released on a niche forum. > For too long our institutions have been neglected by the greedy workers and middle class who have staunchly fought the required levels of contributions for the collective. > This egotistic drive has left once functional infrastructure and institutions in decay. > To force the hand of our nation, these shells of the past must be replaced. > My instructions and intentions are pure, lets see if the state keeps their end of the bargain. > "This manifesto is only intended for my closest friends and family. Please do not share."
Then the character proceeds to destroy infrastructure with timed bombs. Without electricity and running water people will start to fight each other + the government, they will lose faith in the system and actually call for change. Bridge sabotage or bombings for the major cities also help. If you remove the manifesto part it is basically how CIA operates in places like Venezuela.
The character could also make small napalm artillery shells (bottles launched from pvc-tubes using a small gunpowder charge is sufficient) that hit the parliament. A burning parliament 3 days after the initial attacks is very symbolic. With timed fuses it is doable.
This whole scenario creates multiple concurrent effects all over the region, some even after the character is dead or arrested.
Revolutions are avoided as long as people are too invested in keeping the system alive (good careers, jobs, welfare etc), if there isn't even food or water then careers etc take the backseat.
Charles Brooks
Your plot is unrealistic bullshit For that to somehow come over as realistic you would need to make him some super hero covered ops ex army fag that can hack every information channel to expose the crimes of his targets and then execute them
Brayden Jackson
I'd like to tell you a little story. And when I'm done, you can ask me some questions. And then, maybe, you might decide to go out and do some things. You might, and you might not. That's your affair. And I also want to tell you about a nice present I think the Emperor wants you to have. I'm not sure where it is. But maybe you'll want to check back and see if I've found it. Later. After you have done some things. >Once upon a time there was a bad magistrate who took gold from criminal organizations to reduce the sentences and fines of criminals. Everybody knew he was doing this, but nobody could prove it. Because even if it could be proved, the bad magistrate had important friends, and proof is not as powerful as important friends. >At the same time there was a good officer who enforced the laws because he thought laws made people happy and safe. And it bothered the good officer that enforcing the laws did no good, because the bad magistrate let the criminals go as quick as the officer caught them. >For a long time, the good officer sighed, and said, 'What can I do? Because the bad magistrate has important friends, and nothing I can do will touch him.' But then, the good officer said, 'Say. Wait a minute. What about the bad people who are BRIBING the bad magistrate? THEY haven't got important friends. And if they aren't around, then the bad magistrate can't get any more bribes. >And even better, the good officer suspected that the bad people who were bribing the bad magistrate were probably criminals themselves. So the good officer decided that it would be good if the bad people who were bribing the bad magistrate should go away. Forever. >So that good officer made a little special prayer that there would be a little bloodbath to wash the bad people away. There. Isn't that a nice little story? Maybe not a perfect story. Because it ends with a prayer, and not a bloodbath. But maybe the story isn't over yet.
it's very simple you begin by stating publicly an uncontroversial truth that everyone agrees with but is currently censored.
something like: >the best people should do the most difficult jobs >we should help feed, clothe and educate every child, it is our duty and then you let it hang in the air. simple slogans are the best for getting mass popular support. if you organize humans it has to be disaffected veterans with combat experience, since they will kill on command and protect your leadership after it has given them a new purpose and meaning in life.
ultimately you will create a condition similar to russia in the late 80s or germany in the early 30s. or china all throughout maos revolution and rise to power in the 20s, 30s and 40s.
your leader must always be a large man with a powerful aura, a type of quiet confident strength which relaxes those around him.
Nathan Ward
>a country with a lot of bad people in high positions and the good and reasonable people dont have enough political strength just say USA
Jordan Hughes
That is extremely complicated. There are people way more charismatic than the protagonist of the manga
Julian Edwards
oh cool consider the marshlands (nobody wants them dirt cheap) in Paraguay!
Daniel Gray
The goal of the lone wolf isn't to become a hero, but to inspire other lone wolfs to action, in minecraft... If one asshole starts griefing, and others follow his lead soon the whole server is in an uproar demanding the mods do something or are removed.
Nolan White
You dropped this. The bit about infrastructure is particularly interesting.
>the country has well protected infrastructure Then your manga is very unrealistic, it doesn't work that way. Besides command centers and their immediate dependencies, everything is essentially unsecured, the only defense being "put a fence around it and hope nobody knows how fucked it all really is". Simple examples off the top of my head: >electrical substations, shoot the coolant tanks, bang bang bang, you're out of there and they only notice something's wrong 30 minutes later, it's that easy you don't even have to break in >break into the fence around a cellphone tower, bring the tower down and the antennae get squashed beyond repair while it falls. Or just plink at the antennae from far away (easier to repair though) >break into fiber optic cabinets along road the road, snap, oops there goes comms for the whole neighbourhood in minecraft of course
Nathan Taylor
I forgot to mention, you get 10 people that know what they're doing in on it, and in one night you can completely paralyse a 1+ mil city.
