I of course am in full support of the idea that politics as usual with voting and political parties cannot succeed in bringing about the necessary amount of change in our goobermint and social power structure to fix our problems.  Sadly, at this point I don't think the problems we have can be fixed by any change that doesn't include a massive reduction in the global population of Homo Saps, but at least with a Revolution hopefully more of the people who deserve to die will be handed their tickets to the Great Beyond first.  :D

Insofar as Revolutionary Tactics are concerned and which one will garner the most support and which will be most effective in achieving the goals, that's a tough question to answer.  Is sabotage of Private Property more effective and acceptable to J6P than Assassinations?  The blowing up of a pipeline would cause a short term destruction in one part of the global supply chain.  Similar to the bridge collapse in Baltimore.  Logistics departments of transportation companies are working out alternate routes for the months it is likely to take to fix the problem as we speak.  We probably won't notice much change in the products available on the shelves at Walmart resulting from this collapse.

So, one pipeline wouldn't do much, multiple pipelines would need to be hit multiple times.  Defenses would be ramped up and any revolutionary group with enough resources and manpower to pull off such widespread actions would be subject to infiltration and capture.  All in all, it's hard to see how pipeline sabotage would be very effective in bringing down Industrial Civilization.

Alternatively, would Assassinations be more effective?  Say executives of Oil companies were targeted.  The top CEOs are well protected with bodyguards and hard to target.  Lower level managers would be easier ti hit, but they can be replaced easily and your methods would not be very palatable to most people, since those folks are mostly just doing a job and have families and aren't making the decisions, they just follow orders.

So, Assassination doesn't work very well either.  Thus, I have to conclude that unfortunately, Revolution doesn't provide much hope for substantial change either.

The one thing that DOES provide the necessary level of systemic change necessary is, fortunately in this case, GUARANTEED.  COLLAPSE will do the job well of halting the flow of oil through pipelines, when the payments don't clear because the bank used by the buyer to pay for the oil went BK and froze all the accounts the morning before the oil was to be pumped from storage.

Nobody will need to Assassinate Oil executives, they'll commit suicide when they lose their jobs and MaMansions are foreclosed on and their wives and daughters are working as street hookers strung out on fentanyl.

The Revolution has already begun.

RE