Posted on 08/11/2019 8:01:04 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The formula p=mv might just be the E=mc2 of protest. A new study shows its not how many turn out for a demonstration that counts, its also how often.
PARISFrom Algeria to Hong Kong, Sudan to Puerto Rico, people all over the world have been turning out in the streets this year to confront policies and regimes that previously seemed all but invulnerable. And through relentless, largely peaceful protests theyve had amazing success.
There is a lesson here. Americans disgusted by Donald J. Trump, disheartened by his control over the Senate and Supreme Court, demoralized by the consistent support he enjoys from two-fifths of the population, and appalled by his incitement of gun-toting racists, might want to take note.
The examples of mass demonstrations that have taken on, and in some cases taken down, terrible leaders show there are formulas that can be applied in many places, including the mainland of the United States of America. Theres even an illustrative equation.
In a study published this month by the scientific journal Nature, Erica Chenoweth and Margherita Belgioioso look at what they call the physics of dissent drawing on the simple law that momentum equals mass times velocity (p=mv).
When movements maintain mass and velocity, they maintain momentum, the authors tell us, and momentum is whats required to achieve results.
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All anyone has to do, is say the Pledge, to know that we are a REPUBLIC!
Can't blame him though.
That canoe trip his dad took on the Chattahoochee was pretty traumatic.
People in Hong Kong are singing our national anthem.
Nice to hear that the left believes Trump to be invulnerable from the clowns running against him.
People dont say pledge anymore. Its fascist remember? Eyeroll
Not really a laugh riot. The truth is, this is the most likely route for us to lose our freedom completely. A homegrown color Revolution. Large masses are exceedingly difficult for government to control. Especially if they can refrain from open Warfare and violence. Every action the legitimate government takes to shut them down is seen as repression, and further energizes the crowd. It’s not good news for them to try to organize this. I think the time for lunch will be as soon as Trump wins re-election.
My grandson’s school still has the kids say the Pledge; it’s a private school though.
Trump has control over the Senate?
Those are some serious drugs Mr Dicky is using.
total swamp creature:
Wikipedia: Christopher Dickey: In 1983-1984, Dickey was an Edward R. Murrow Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations...
Original articles and essays by Dickey have appeared in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The New York Times Book Review, The New York Review of Books, Vanity Fair etc...
He frequently comments about breaking events on MSNBC, CNN, France 24, BBC TV, BBC World Service and Al Jazeera, as well as other local, national and international broadcasts...
Robert De Niro’s Tribeca Productions optioned Securing the City in the fall of 2009, to develop into a television series.
We don’t protest because we have JOBS.
Make it known, we’ll shut down public assistance until the rioting is over.
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