• This comparative analysis of 65 quantitative studies reveals that nonviolent revolutions generally lead to more positive institutional outcomes than violent revolutions across domains like democracy, security forces, foreign relations, ethnicity, culture, and well-being.
• Nonviolent resistance movements are more likely to facilitate transitions from autocracy to democracy, improve democratic qualities like civil liberties, transform security forces and judicial systems in rights-respecting directions, and enhance well-being measures such as life expectancy.

Nice try science

lame ass cop science.

those who make nonviolent revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable

You don't know that a nonviolent revolution is impossible

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colour_revolution

I mean it doesn't surprise me, militant leaders are more likely to be autocratic, whereas peaceful leaders are going to be better at inspiring a populace, adding those together you get the same results

Revolução dos Cravos anyone, Europe's favourite peaceful revolution? Yet another CIA op - and you can be damn sure that none of the small leftist parties had any say in anything after a brief period of a somewhat permissive chaos. After the dust had settled the US had another vassal state with a neat group of strategically placed islands in the Atlantic ocean, complete with a fake democracy and some native minions to run the whole thing.

Ever since I started keeping livestock I can't help but notice the similarities between livestock and citizens - the way you manage them, distract them, keep them contained without them noticing ... getting more cynical by the day. How do get through this invisible electric fence?

If you think about the French Revolution, it was a disaster. It paved the way for Napoleon, a despot that undid a lot of what the revolutionaries fought for.

all that remains is to hope for an outbreak of western style democracy in america

TIL that term exists outside of the tankie definition of "CIA-backed fake revolution".