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Card #c136IR // #c136Synthesis

The thirteenth rule: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.

— In our words · Source: Rules for Radicals (Saul D. Alinsky)

[Use when]

When everyone's responsible and therefore no one is.

[Why it matters]

Institutions survive by diffusing responsibility until attack is impossible — so you pin one name to the evil and never let it squirm free.

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