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   Boina Roja Enthusiast Karl Dahl (karldahl@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2024 02:42:31 JST Boina Roja Enthusiast Karl Dahl
   New piece on my substack about the alliances between, and unification of, the rightist factions in the Spanish Civil War
   
   karldahl.substack.com/p/rightist-factional-alliances-in-the
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     AlabasterBrick ?‍☠️ (alabasterbrick@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2024 02:42:29 JST AlabasterBrick ?‍☠️

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     • jb
     One guy is better than none.
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     Boina Roja Enthusiast Karl Dahl (karldahl@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2024 02:42:30 JST Boina Roja Enthusiast Karl Dahl

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     @jb He didn't become the leader until a few months into the uprising. All the other factions had their own leadership structures
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     jb (jb@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2024 02:42:30 JST jb

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     Yes, I read your closing remarks about organizing locally
     Honestly I wouldn’t even know where to start
     Outside of family I know exactly one guy that I could speak with on such things
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     jb (jb@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2024 02:42:31 JST jb

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     Good read

     General Franco himself as party leader

     We‘re sorely in need of some kind of leadership

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     AlabasterBrick ?‍☠️ (alabasterbrick@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2024 02:45:43 JST AlabasterBrick ?‍☠️

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     Well two guys is the start of your local network. When things get spicy it will expand.
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     jb (jb@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2024 02:45:44 JST jb

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     yep, I’m thankful for the one guy… Just don’t know how to build upon it… I think he knows exactly one guy as well (meaning me)
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     Boina Roja Enthusiast Karl Dahl (karldahl@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2024 04:51:54 JST Boina Roja Enthusiast Karl Dahl

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     @EvilSandmich @jb Agreed
     
     You and the one guy, and sons, are a solid foundation that you can have right now. You can then plug your cell into other groups, where beneficial or as needed, or have an individual connection to them
     
     Think temporary or partial alliances with others. Neighborhood watch is a good one - it's not about creating a nucleus so much as a mandala concept. Your nucleus can plug into other organizations as they suit your interests and benefit your nucleus so that you don't have to rely on only one or the other for core requirements
     
     Here's an example. A friend of mine lives 100 miles away. He's not part of my core group, but he has his own core group and we can DO STUFF together as needed. I feed him ideas and some of them work for him and his guys, some don't. That's okay. They are involved in various organizations. His main radio guy is part of local and regional radio clubs but helps his crew with their own comms. They rely on him to lead the way there and learn what they can. My buddy is in a rifle club and also does their tactical training (combat vet). He gets his guys into local competitions periodically that are relevant to their necessary skills without them being "regular competitors" - right? They don't need to be pistol jedis, though he is. Another guy is active in a community watch group and uses that to learn about what the local cops are up to and what the main threats are. He shares this with the crew, who have their own responsibilities for local intel
     
     They are making good use of my CNT-FAI defense cadre article based upon their own areas of interest and whims. There is only so much time in the day and this keeps it fun and easy
     karldahl.substack.com/p/the-spanish-cnt-fai-anarchist-defense
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     EvilSandmich (evilsandmich@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2024 04:51:55 JST EvilSandmich

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     @jb @KarlDahl One thought is a neighborhood watch, but one that scales/interacts with other watches. A more casual idea I've had is forming a group that practices disaster situations where once a month/quarter we would practice briefly monitoring who was coming and going in town, under the theory of immediate security in case of a natural disaster (or chimp-out). Two important ideas are that the organization cannot be explicitly militant (in my above examples military-type training can be encouraged for individuals but the group should not play a part) and there should be no membership rolls of any kind.
     AlabasterBrick ?‍☠️ repeated this.