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_Maxolotl t1_itz72m7 wrote

Reply to comment by Tunto_Bungus in BlackRock HQ in NYC stormed with pitchforks. by helloworld_141

A recent Harvard study concludes nonviolent protest is no longer statistically more likely to succeed than armed insurrection.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14754835.2022.2077085

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LoneStarTallBoi t1_itz8wmz wrote

It never was! The whole point of nonviolent protest was to say "please give us what we want before we stop being nonviolent" but it got twisted into "if you can't accomplish it with polite chanting, it isn't worth doing"

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_Maxolotl t1_itzg96y wrote

Actually the study I linked to is by a professor whose findings were, broadly, that from the mid to late 20th century nonviolent protest was more successful than insurrection, but then the bastards figured out how to counter nonviolent protest effectively, and by the early 21st century nonviolent protest and insurrection were about equally effective, but the efficacy of nonviolent protest is continuing to weaken.

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NoGround t1_iu1r2it wrote

Countering nonviolent protests will eventually bite them in the ass. Maybe not in our lifetime but bloody revolutions are unstoppable tides once the dam breaks.

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