Historically, no government has survived a non-violent mobilization of more than about 5% of its population.https://twitter.com/asta_fish/status/717069181477322752 …
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@Dymaxion Recent: Bahrain (maybe half the population mobilized?), Syria (high mobilization before violence began), Yemen, etc. etc. -
@Dymaxion Besides, old numbers don't mean the same as new numbers. Getting a million together in 1963 signals higher capacity than it 2011. - Show replies
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@zeynep Might still be a useful rule in Iceland, but I'll readily admit to not having had time to dig into these dynamics the way I want to. -
@Dymaxion I'm wary of using number sense from past about people mobilized to post-internet networked mobilizations. Lower threshold. - Show replies
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