A life of toil is all they know.

From dawn until dusk, all duties must be performed.

Across the acres, the machinery hums and lulls as the ground beneath it is torn and shredded.

The seeds must get scattered. The irrigation, like clockwork, satiates the thirst of the seeds.

Months go by, measures are taken, prayers are said in the hopes that the harvest will come.

The cows must be feed, the plants watered, the grounds cleaned, the cows milked.

There is no calling out sick, there are no personal days, there are razor thin margins in a competitive field.

The suit must be pressed, the network connection must be stabled. The phone must be charged.

Meetings, luncheons, red ties, blue ties

Shiny shoes, construction sites. Busy roads, traffic updates, inner cities, suburbs.

Job applications, tweets and texts, Google Maps, GPS.

Grab a quick bite, drop by the store, pick up some beef, Sort through the lettuce.

No mind where it came from, for we all know, all of our food comes from the store.

Flight from New York across to LA.

Such a lengthy flight, over flyover country.

"I'll never visit a boring place like Idaho!" yelps the businessman chomping on fries.

"What's the point of Kansas?" utters the man, chewing on popcorn.

"Wisconsin is irrelevant!" chimes the man eating cheese, with a grin on his face, and crumbs on his plate.

A country united? A country divided. Rap music? Country music?

"I must go to church!" stammers the rural man.

"Why is Chick-Fil-A closed on Sundays, what a drag!" hammers the urban man.

They're all connected. The producer and the consumer, yet they couldn't be further apart

in mind and in heart

Rule 1: Power is not only what you have, but what an opponent thinks you have. If your organization is small, hide your numbers in the dark and raise a din that will make everyone think you have many more people than you do.

Rule 2: Never go outside the experience of your people. The result is confusion, fear, and retreat.

Rule 3: Whenever possible, go outside the experience of an opponent. Here you want to cause confusion, fear, and retreat.

Rule 4: Make opponents live up to their own book of rules. "You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity."

Rule 5: Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. It's hard to counterattack ridicule, and it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage.

Rule 6: A good tactic is one your people enjoy. "If your people aren't having a ball doing it, there is something very wrong with the tactic."

Rule 7: A tactic that drags on for too long becomes a drag. Commitment may become ritualistic as people turn to other issues.

Rule 8: Keep the pressure on. Use different tactics and actions and use all events of the period for your purpose. "The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition. It is this that will cause the opposition to react to your advantage."

Rule 9: The threat is more terrifying than the thing itself. When Alinsky leaked word that large numbers of poor people were going to tie up the washrooms of O'Hare Airport, Chicago city authorities quickly agreed to act on a longstanding commitment to a ghetto organization. They imagined the mayhem as thousands of passengers poured off airplanes to discover every washroom occupied. Then they imagined the international embarrassment and the damage to the city's reputation.

Rule 10: The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative. Avoid being trapped by an opponent or an interviewer who says, "Okay, what would you do?"

Rule 11: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, polarize it. Don't try to attack abstract corporations or bureaucracies. Identify a responsible individual. Ignore attempts to shift or spread the blame. (They did this to Flynn, and many others like the Christian Baker)

According to Alinsky, the main job of the organizer is to bait an opponent into reacting. "The enemy properly goaded and guided in his reaction will be your major strength."

I like to talk to people around the world. One of my best friends is a young lady from Bangladesh that I met because she wanted to practice English despite my insistence that I speak Jersey and not English 😜

In any case yesterday I was hopping between rooms in a voice chat app and stumbled upon some brits. I was a little shitfaced so I was talking for hours on end and befriended a cool dude. We had mutual respect for each other as we tackled every topic under the sun, but I specifically avoided talking vaxx and covid.

But as soon as it came up and he asked my opinion I told him it's a load of shit used to justify overreach and the reason I had to cancel my UK trip last year. I had a big plan to rent a home and invite all of my international friends to have a fucking banger of a party. I chose UK because:

A. It's relatively neutral of a destination for the friends I was inviting that were Scandinavian, German, Dutch, etc.

And B. I wanted to prove that the way brits have sway in my parts just due to their accent, I was going to prove that I could make Jersey the equivalent to them that they are to here.

But then the question came up. And I answered honesty. He said he's double vaxxed and he's ok so why cant I think of others instead of myself. Well, this guy, lol, i told him if vaxx makes symptoms less severe, he's likely spreading the virus around even more instead of staying home and that I have 0 reason to get an experimental treatment with no animal trials and no third phase trials over something that has a 99.97% survivability rate.

Normally he'd apologize if i was going to talk and he'd interrupt. But i watched him as he complained, cut me off, tried to pressure with "oh come on...." and "mate you're smarter than this."

The whole convo he was being so careful and apologetic to interrupt but any time i tried to respond with my stance it's like he didnt want to hear it and used that cutting me off as a reinforcement for his position until I had to get a bit belligerent just so I could speak for myself, and then he used that belligerence as a justification for his beliefs.

Hours of conversation and friendship went to the gutter over this shit and I watched him go from a friendly interacter to literally cutting me off, denigrating me, pressuring me using social tactics, etc.

I never wanted to say, "LISTEN, you asked a question and I'm answering your fucking question but don't ask something if you're going to avoid hearing my answer."

The vaxx is the ultimate divisive topic. He kept saying i was just trying to be rebellious and had no basis to say or think what I do. I did my best to be courteous and patient, but at some point, you gotta show me the respect I show you.

Idk, just wanted to share as it's been on my mind and I'm still kickin'