Comments by "michael" (@michaeld4861) on "" video.

  1. Purely for academic reasons, every major advancement of human rights in history necessitated violence to achieve. The Black Panthers and the civil rights movement, ending slavery, ending apartheid in South Africa, ending the German expansion and holocaust during WWII, child/other labor laws, etc.
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  2. India liberating itself from British rule, yes it's true, civil disobedience didn't alone win the fight. Feel free to add to the list.
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  3. It seems every successful movement usually has at least two groups involved, a peaceful group and a non-peaceful group. The non-peaceful group uses "extra-legal" means to put pressure on governments and capital markets in order to advance human rights and attract international media attention to the cause in the hopes of sanctions or other outside pressures as well. This also helps because the government can then bargain with the peaceful group and both sides are seen as bargaining instead of simply giving into the "extremes" of political violence. This worked quite well for the people of South Africa (although took a long time as Nelson Mandela and others were in prison for 30+ years) though it does not appear to be working so well for the people of Palestine, perhaps because of Hamas targeting civilians instead of infrastructure, or maybe because of a more cohesive western propaganda campaign backing Israel no matter what and conflating anti-semitism with the government and somehow everyone goes along with it. idk.
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  4. That's a good point, most of the economic numbers we use nowadays have changed they way they are calculated even just in the last 20 years let alone from almost a century ago. Even the inflation data is changed by swapping out similar products or name brand for store brand in order to create the illusion that food inflation is less than it really is. And much of the housing data is taking from owners equivalent rents which is just asking what homeowners think they would charge for rent. As if someone who has owned their home for 20 year would have any idea.
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