.@Laeeth is locked but you should try to follow him and read his Substacks, too. Super interesting dude. substack.com/home/post/p-200…

If you're trying to organize anything from a chess match to a political movement, and the people you invite don't show up... it is COUNTERPRODUCTIVE for you to blame the people for not showing up. It is HIGHLY PRODUCTIVE for you to take responsibility for not being a better leader. People don't show up for things they believe in. They show up for things they're bought into, and you as a leader must select the problem and the demand that people will buy into before you attempt to organize them. If people aren't showing up to your events, it's for one or more of three reasons: - you picked the wrong issue to organize around. hey man, there are a lot of issues out there. people care about them to varying degrees. the reason why we GET OUT AND TALK TO PEOPLE face to face at a personal level is so we can find out what really motivates them. if someone is really motivated to solve a problem, THEY WILL ASK YOU what they can do to help. that's a person who's going to show up and that's an issue you can organize around. - they were never sold on showing up. "I might be there" is a hard no. Press them until they either tell you straight up they're not coming, or they buy into your program. yes, you're going to have to sell your vision of the solution to them and they will have to want to buy it. they have to think the issue is worthy and winnable before they show up. no one is going to stop watching netflix and go spend a few hours on something that will not solve their problems. they are hungry and you are selling them dish soap. they don't want it. you have to provide them purpose, direction, and motivation. most people simply do not have the personal agency to find it on their own. that's why YOU are organizing and THEY are NOT. most people are sheep who need to be led. - you didn't follow up. 90% of organizing is in the follow-up, and the more personal, the better. an email blast isn't going to mobilize people, but face to face conversations and personalized phone calls/text messages will. you should not try to do this by yourself. the reason why i tell people for form a 3-5 person organizing committee is so that you have a core group of people who get it, want it, and have the agency and intrinsic motivation to act. each person should have a list of contacts and they personally follow up with prior to the event, whether it's a meeting, event, election, or anything else. this is how the professionals do it. if you don't want to do it this way, you cannot expect to get professional results. the blackpilling and doomerism around our guys not showing up is counter-productive and self-defeating. do not get into it and do not promote it. complaining will not solve the problem. building relationships will. agitating the problem will. offering hope of a solution will. building a sense of urgency will. directly asking for their personal help will. that's how you get turn out. we will need to mobilize for events in the future. i generally disdain protests, but targeted protests can be effective IF they're a part of a BROADER PUBLIC PRESSURE CAMPAIGN. a protest alone does not solve a problem, but political, social, and economic pressure does. a protest or rally is just one part of that. there are a lot of collective action tactics that we can pursue. what you will find is that you simply cannot mobilize what you haven't already organized. that's why organization is the basis for ALL collective action. i have a LOT more thoughts on this, but also very busy. will write more soon. thanks for coming to my ted talk. follow me @grayzoneintel for more.

The reason why counter-organizing feels so difficult/impossible is because they only need a vocal minority and you feel like you need a majority. You don't. Everyone you need already agrees with you. They just haven't been organized yet.

I'm realizing that way too many of our guys don't actually understand what counter-organization is. I'll write a long thread about it tomorrow. It will clear up a lot of things. In the meantime, start here. x.com/grayzoneintel/status/2…

We’re officially old af, boys. My first deployment was 20 years ago 💀