Comment by gsf_emergency_4

In the past the material resources of opposing forces were evenly matched: french revolution happened because the state had tenacious control over arms. Today armies do sometimes side "with the people", but mostly to prevent the politicians from going too far.

Real revolutions today have to be quiet. Besides NLnet, which I personally find trustworthy, and to which anybody can try to apply for funding, there's also Linux and FreeBSD. Those are real techno revolutions, but I'm optimistic that they can be taken to the next level. (2% support)

Be the change you want to see in the world, like Gandhi says. It's simple, though not easy. Join NLnet, or contribute to F-droid, or work on reverse engineering advanced proprietary tech. Find and learn and think about how revolutionary tech orgs are run. Most important thing to learn: how they can survive on support from only 1% of humanity. Thinking like that, it's actually easier now than any point in history.

(In another sense 1% is already a sweet spot, see

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45572427

World domination is a bug not a feature. The Linux kernel is the revolution. Desktop Linux is not)