It's lights out on Myanmar

[pluribus_adelos]

The powers that be cut the nations internet access. Well we all know that can't be good. It's a given that children and authorities always try to hide their misdeeds. And misdeeds are surely afoot there.

This is one reason that US citizens retain the right to bear arms - it is a last resort against tyranny in the government - meaning one's own

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[zcatcurious]

The monks might have a fighting chance because they are not armed. The virtue of passive resistance is its psychological effect, because every child is taught that it is wrong to hit people for no reason. Send your own troops to shoot your own people and some of your people will die, but those troops will eventually decide that the did not sign up to be murderers. It all depends upon the discipline of the protestors, of course: how well they can continue to stand there peacefully while their companions are being executed.

This was, after all, what won independence for India and Pakistan, and the Roman Empire for the Christians.

[pluribus_adelos]

because every child is taught that it is wrong to hit people for no reason

...but then as adults many come to understand what they can personally gain through doing so. Besides, to say there is "no reason" in Myanmar is probably not true.

but those troops will eventually decide that the did not sign up to be murderers

I don't know about that. The average grunt is often doing what he's told so he won't get punished/jailed/worse, and if the higher-ups are benefiting more than average from the current political situation they've got the wrong incentive. My understanding is Mynamar has had a great deal of military intervention in the past 40+ years to keep the powers in power.

I'm not convinced that because a tactic works in some cases means it works in all cases. But I really don't know history that well and so ought to go read about India and Pakistan.