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One thing I have learned from all the classes I have taken is that 99% of the time you will learn more during the "down time" aka jamming mags, finger fucking gear to make it work, ect...from the instructors than during the actual class. They go off script and go into the actual holy shit moments from them. I show up to a 1k round class with damn near all the ammo in mags so I can listen to those little off scripts nugents of gold. You do that enough and with different instructors you tend to learn a little more which ultimately makes you more efficient and effective.
Those that have been there and done that I tend to listen to and take in the little details and run as fast as fucking possible with them.
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Dude, when Thomas Paine wrote & published Common Sense & The Rights of Man, he didn't waste the first whole chapter talking about his breakfast.
I'm just sayin', you got a job to do, do it well. Don't half ass it, which is what so, so many of the people on Youtube do. If you write a script, you don't babble. Period.
I'm sitting through video, now...
One thing I have learned from all the classes I have taken is that 99% of the time you will learn more during the "down time" aka jamming mags, finger fucking gear to make it work, ect...from the instructors than during the actual class. They go off script and go into the actual holy shit moments from them. I show up to a 1k round class with damn near all the ammo in mags so I can listen to those little off scripts nugents of gold. You do that enough and with different instructors you tend to learn a little more which ultimately makes you more efficient and effective.
Those that have been there and done that I tend to listen to and take in the little details and run as fast as fucking possible with them.
I don't doubt that, but if you are trying to make a compelling announcement or argument (and he is), it is best to craft it, not improvise it.
Instead, here I am just now getting to the end of a video with the guy sounding like a speed-addled maniac because it's playing at 1.5X. I know he's saying stuff I mostly already agree with, but
at minute 54 of 58...he finally starts going into the extremely top-level description of what he's trying to accomplish. He assures the listener there is a plan, and it is not being half-assed, but says he needs technical, professional, and financial assistance with almost every aspect of the org he envisions, yet does so in an hour-long stream of consciousness record.
Maybe that passion is good for rallying some people, but he even says the video is not about rallying anyone, but announcing. I already agree with the man about damn near everything (well, except trying to take a non-existent brand new org national, immediately out of the gate; that's insane) so his passion, while admirable,
is not useful to me. I need to know exactly what I need to do to assist him, and before that, I need to be 1) convinced his goal is worthy of my help, and 2) told why he needs my help.
Craft a logical, structured call to action if you want to convey information, rather than feelings. Not an impassioned ejaculation; we have plenty of those already. I don't need to be made angry to figure out whether I possess a skillset presently needed to develop a website.
The Lobby Day Rally was compelling because the group communications were parsed in 'military fashion' by also-former service members (and I think some actives). Granted it got to the point of being unintelligible jargon-jibberish at times, but there was an air of professionalism throughout, which gave ME confidence to take part, knowing I wasn't being led into a lion's den by some asshole. And as I'd expected, that professionalism carried over to every other aspect of the event, which was quite disciplined, focused, effective, and predictable (to those who were privy to the details)
He says time is precious now, and I agree. He could have spent that hour recording his thoughts, a half-hour organizing them, fifteen minutes proofing them, and the last fifteen minutes reading them to his webcam. 140,000 views (so far). That's as many as
ONE HUNDRED FORTY THOUSAND MAN-HOURS. To ask if anyone wants to help him set up a website, for crissakes.
We gotta start this more locally. We all agree on the shit that needs to be stopped; there's no need for a national hierarchy. We'll save that shit for when we get enough political power to THINK about calling the shots, and form our own political party in the flaming aftermath of the RNC/DNC paradigm. For now it's bare survival, I'm afraid. Calling an 'all hands' to Idaho or even Virginia isn't gonna work well in practice, most people can only do that once a year. And why would it be needed, anyway? We all know there's more than enough locals to handle such things, if they were only in communication & held each other accountable as a community. When we can get a guy we like who's friendly to us elected dog-catcher reliably, we can start thinking about taking on the larger, more remote systems.