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If you want to lose, play your opponent’s game, by his rules, on his home turf.
If you want to lose, fight a well-equipped national army with a rag-tag band of yahoos shooting rifles.
If you want to lose, fight hate and anger and brutality with your own hate and anger and brutality.
If you want to lose, forget your values and objectives, and target specific people who — if they resign or die — are replaced by other people who behave exactly the same as their predecessors.
If you want to lose, forget your values and objectives, and line up in support of a leader, a mere flawed human who makes mistakes and might go completely off the rails.
If you want to lose, set your sights on one single dramatic demonstration — like a mass march — and hope that does the job. It won’t.
If you want to lose, wait for someone else to do it all instead of joining with whoever is taking what you see as the most promising approach.
If you want to lose, have a only a vague objective and work towards that.
If you want to lose, try to do it all alone.
If you want to lose, reproach those who might help you due to their imperfections and “impurity.”
