Bro thinks it's a gun fight against the US military 💀
this post was submitted on 17 Jun 2025
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Why, yes. Setting the precedent that taking power by force is acceptable has never led to anything bad.
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worked out for this guy:
although to be fair he did get shot to death right before.
Just gonna link this tired old post over here
Throughout history, like 99% successful rebellion against authoritarianism has been violent.
Source: Historian.
The only successful non-violent over-throwing of an authoritarian occupation either had the leverage of violence, or brought attention to the issue by those who used violence :/
I sure don't have any qualms about nonviolence succeeding because the oppressors realize they don't want to see the violence.
this is not the conversation ending truth-bomb some people make it out to be.
scholars have contested the selection methods and conclusions reached in that original survey/article. for example, several of the "successful" countries on their list have since regressed into dictatorships/unrest.
not trying to debate or be contrarian, but I think folks who lean heavily on the non-violence strategy should consider that the success of nonviolent moderate protest movements may have something to do with them being perceived as more palatable to the ruling class than the violent opposition alternatives. therefore, simply making violent alternatives widely known and believed to be credible threats, actually serves to push moderate people towards the less scary less radical faction of the movement.
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