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Starting with the moderns is proving an unmitigated disaster, the very thing I had foreseen and feared the most.

Only referred to you because of the idea of there being a correct answer to a question of taste.

Everybody needs a hobby.

Well, if it was a loss why would they be doing the same thing again? And why would you be posting a loss because that would undermine your point?

These two guys are obsessed with me.

Your picture of determinism is just wrong, according to the things I've read. There is no up to date scientific view that accepts hard determinism.

Lots of non sequiturs here. One thing to consider is that the universe doesn't behave neatly according to the thermodynamic laws, and this explanatory gap is reflected in the concepts of dark energy and dark matter, which energy and matter are ubiquitous not just out there in space...so we have...

I'm not trying to persuade you, I'm informing you of facts, facts which prevent my being persuaded. If your argument is contradicted by facts it doesn't work.

For instance, just the idea of the anti-lockdown marches was counter-productive: UK government explicitly said they made the regs tougher in anticipation of protest. At least if protests hadn't then happened the regs would be less tough next time. But they did happen because protest precludes...

No, and no, back to the books for you.

Read up on quantum physics and the problems with the idea of causation per se e.g. in Celia Green's The Lost Cause. Also, retroactive causation has been shown experimentally.

The man in the street gets really confused when top rank politicians make apparently contradictory plays but if they thought of it as a strategy game with limited information against people also capable of bluffing they might realise what the politician is actually doing. In fact, the board game...

Sometimes people claim a small victory for protest if one of their own politicians changes their avowed stance, the implication being that this brings the politician closer to the protest's objective. No, all that's happened is that the politician has been forced into abandoning the possibility...

There's a structural problem. Large popular protests can't manoeuvre like top-level politicians can because there are too many people involved and they can't coordinate in any subtle way. Poltics at the top is done by small numbers of people because that enables a greater range of tactics...

If you've got to look more than half a century ago for the last win...

These popular protests typically fail in their objectives so it's not much of a stretch that they can also be counter-productive.

I'm not saying you change the strategy because you've changed your viewpoint of what's right or wrong, I'm saying they need to use more cunning. If you want Israel to slack off and to be defeated in the long run then you need to give them a false sense of security. Slogans like 'From the river...

If the protesters want to reduce Israeli aggression they need to make it seem as if Palestine will be kept in hand by the international community...how do you do this?: protest in favour of Israel because that makes Israel feel stronger in comparison to Palestine rather than weaker, and if it's...

Not every one, just some of them. Have the protesters even done a risk assessment for their interventions along these lines?

I defer to your judgement of Sam Hyde, as you've clearly watched about 20 times more than me.