Kinda hard to build FTL tech on imagination instead of billions/trillions of dollars of research, insane skills in math, physics, etc.

Agreed. It’s time my occasional minecraft/PZomboid server got a nextcloud upgrade.

Not if you’re doing things the boring way.

That’s a good way to fuck up your paint, and your drive train if one of them goes under.

I can guarantee they just throw every cart there in some random direction to get their car out.

You’re so close to getting it.

Neither of which were achieved through purely peaceful means.

Ghandi had violent freedom fighters supporting the same cause, which are never mentioned in today’s history books. And the civil rights movement had Malcom X, the Black Panthers, and riots.

Violent flanks are associated with higher success rates of social movements:

https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/1/3/pgac110/6633666?login=false