• rsuri@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    I don’t get this meme. Is this guitar character supposed to be extremely stupid or just a fascist troll? It would be funnier if it continues:
    “But what about Gandhi?”
    “Witch.”

    • Barbarian@sh.itjust.works
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      2 hours ago

      Nonviolent successes are always paired with violent alternatives. Nonviolent protests by themselves can be ignored, but if you have a nonviolent movement and a parallel but seperate violent movement biting your ankles… now negotiating with the nonviolent movement seems like a really good idea.

      Wikipedia has a decent chronology tab of the kind of insanity going on when the UK just went 'Yay Ghandi! Nonviolence wins! Definitely nothing to do with all the terrorist attacks!"

      Before India became completely ungovernable, their response to peaceful protest was to imprison anyone threatening their rule (make sure to read the “local violence” part).