MolecularCactus1324@lemmy.world to You Should Know@lemmy.world · edit-29 days agoYSK: Non-violent protests are 2x more likely to succeed and no non-violent movement that has involved more than 3.5% of a population has ever failedwww.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square437linkfedilinkarrow-up11.21Karrow-down1338cross-posted to: politics@lemmy.world
arrow-up1868arrow-down1external-linkYSK: Non-violent protests are 2x more likely to succeed and no non-violent movement that has involved more than 3.5% of a population has ever failedwww.bbc.comMolecularCactus1324@lemmy.world to You Should Know@lemmy.world · edit-29 days agomessage-square437linkfedilinkcross-posted to: politics@lemmy.world
minus-squaresqgl@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up33arrow-down1·edit-28 days ago600k Australians protested against the Iraq war in 2003. The population was about 20m so 3.5% of that is 700k. So if another 100k had joined then the protest would have succeeded?
minus-squareShinkanTrain@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·8 days ago100k Australians are the cause of the Iraq War 😔
minus-squareWomble@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down1·edit-28 days agoNo, if another 100k Australians had come out and then kept protesting day in day out for weeks/months they would have got the aus government to back down and not support the war.
600k Australians protested against the Iraq war in 2003.
The population was about 20m so 3.5% of that is 700k. So if another 100k had joined then the protest would have succeeded?
100k Australians are the cause of the Iraq War 😔
No, if another 100k Australians had come out and then kept protesting day in day out for weeks/months they would have got the aus government to back down and not support the war.