Comment on YSK: Non-violent protests are 2x likely to succeed and no non-violent movement that has involved more than 3.5% of the country population has ever failed

• OmegaLemmy@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The simplest answer is usually not one that works, you can disperse crowds with water cannons alone and eliminate stragglers with arrests and rubber bullets

  The real answer would probably end up being violence in the end, planned action to sabotage police movements, forming communes to act in unison and to act against the state and their tools

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  • CtrlAltDefeat@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    High participation raises the likelihood that the people in the police, military, national guard, have friends and family on the other side. This makes them less likely to use force and more likely to defect.

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• outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Police like to be more violent the more they’re outnumbered!

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  • WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    [CITATION NEEDED.]

    Police, like all bullies, are ultimately cowards. They have no problem abusing people when they can do so with impunity. But if their own lives are on the line, suddenly they’re on their best behavior.

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    • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      That’s why they get more violent. Less standing in lines, more gas. Less gas more flashbangs. Less flashbangs, more rubber coated bullets…

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• drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  They are already outnumbered.

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