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evilsoup wrote:how else will I watch my little pony in stunning sharp 1080p

adr wrote:i watched some my little pony today. the episode was about the magic of friendship or something

adr wrote:why does youtube even offer a HD thing? ti is so slow to load any who really gives a shit about hte high definitionness of "24hr enterprise idle engine sound", "DON'T TAZE ME BRO" cell phone videos and, of course "cute kitten #156,654"

i'm in the middle of a bandwidth crisis here peeps

Phantasee wrote:'why is the speed limit 80 km/h i can only bike like 24 km/h'

adr wrote:i can't get myself to sleep. gonna be fucking miserable tomorrow

but i think i get the misunderstanding here... i poorly worded my thing. "even better" is a relative term

so like in general, nonviolence works 2x better than violence in achieving goals. the success rate is something liek 50% vs 25%

in the face of brutal government repression, the success rate drops... but it drops more for violence than for nonviolence. the number is something like 30 vs 5 or something like that. so you are more like 6x more likely to succeed using nonviolent tactics than violent ones. hence it works even better in the face of repression, not because the absolute odds increase, but because the relative odds do



and the reason for this has to do with the political cost thing. when a regime cracks down on nonviolent movements, it gets sympathy for the movement and condemnation for the regime. people look at it and say "what the hell did you do that for?????"

but when they crack down on a violent movement, they can justify it a lot more easily, painting the opposition as extremists or terrorists or whatever. now the mainstream person might look at it and say "thank you president dictator for protecting me and my property from those armed groups".


anywho maybe with this out of my brain i can sleep so time to try again

Straha wrote:Name me three revolutionary moments of change in human history over the past two centuries that were achieved non violently or didn't have an active violent beginning or component to them. (Pro-tip: you can't. )

adr wrote:

Straha wrote:Name me three revolutionary moments of change in human history over the past two centuries that were achieved non violently or didn't have an active violent beginning or component to them. (Pro-tip: you can't. )

Name me three cities in human history that didn't have crime. Is crime a necessary ingredient when building a city; something you should choose to use, or is it just an unfortunate and very possibly counterproductive side effect of getting a lot of people together?

adr wrote:dr. king was a fucking idiot. obviously only the riots were capable of making any real change so his commitment to nonviolence was actually holding the civil rights movement back!


(btw i used to seriously believe this for a brief time)