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iandanforthtoday at 1:49 PM1 replyview on HN

Ah, ok. There's a whole body of literature here that I think divides our opinions. I would recommend "Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict (Columbia Studies in Terrorism and Irregular Warfare)" to start. The history of effective change in the face of organizations acting in bad faith may not be what you think it is.


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JumpCrisscrosstoday at 2:07 PM

Hasn’t the author of that study called out falling success rates for those tactics in recent years? (The N% rule researcher.)