1. One dynamic that I think is really important is that hitting in multiple places at once is preventing the police from using their usual tactic, which is to draw police units from surrounding regions to make sure they always have overwhelming

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2. force. This is what happened at Standing Rock for example, you had cops from like 7 states there and there were enough people who didn't want to straight up fight that the cops had numerical advantages when they were dealing with militants.

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3. Occupy had the reach to thin the police out in theory but basically outside of Oakland they were doing Gandhian non-violence so it was pretty easy to disperse them. This time no one is fucking around, the protesters are standing their ground

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4. and fighting, and they're doing it EVERYWHERE. That means the cops don't have anywhere to draw extra troops from, even the national guard is heavily outnumbered and they can't deal with that kind of numerical disadvantage. The result is that

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5. they're getting their asses kicked basically everywhere. The whole system, like the old Tzarist censorship regime, is designed around making people too scared to revolt. They literally don't have the numbers to deal with EVERYONE revolting

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6. simultaneously. @davidgraeber talks about this in The Shock of Victory, where he noticed that making activists feel like it was impossible to win and they'd been crushed every time was more important than actually

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7. keeping the system functioning. The best example of this was the way that the cops were willing to make WTO conferences basically non-functional just to demoralize a few thousand anarchists. And now we see the reason they were so invested in

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8. engineering despair: if people actually fought them everywhere at once the cops can't hold the country. Their invincibility relies on everyone believing that they're invincible and thus not challenging them directly. And for decades it's worked

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9. I can't tell you the number of committed revolutionaries I've met who were ABSOLUTELY and sincerely convinced that if anyone did half of the shit people are doing now they'd get shot. Add to that the people convinced that Americans are too

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10. beaten down to ever really revolt and you have a mass engine of demobilization at the core of what's supposed to be the engine of revolutionary politics. But the current uprising has revealed that the emperor has no clothes. People will rise

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11. up, and the police don't have the numbers to stop them. And that, my friends, is the basis of The Cool Zone.

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