Because of a 2000s Scottish band
On the more proletarian end of things, we know who MLK jr, Malcolm X, George Floyd and Trayvon Martin are.
The changes brought about were dramatic, even if not enough.
Wait wasn’t that how Christianity got started?
Not really, but they’d like you to believe that anyway.
Among a few other things.
It’s not because Rome needed to control public protests after they executed a gay man?
I’m interested in hearing more about this version.
If I had to guess, it’s because it’s not 1900, and this isn’t Bosnia.
Remember his name
“It’s not the fall that kills you, it’s the sudden stop.” applied to serious topics.
A single shove never did anything. It was a combination of this boulder being perched on this ledge, and you standing 3 stories below it.
Because the band made a number of good songs?
But yeah, sometimes one violence incident can change everything, but usually it’s just the drop that made the bucket overflow
Ferdinand was the straw that broke the camels back. tensions had been building for a while. if it wasn’t that it would have been something else. A lot of the consensus at the time was that war was inevitable
Very good one volume look at Europe/America in the run up to WW1. There had been a lot of changes in a short period of time and a lot of intelligent people thought that a little bloodshed might help things get back to normal.
Up until then, war has been kind of a game. Gentlemen gathering the peasants to poke each other with sharp and/or pointy sticks until the food ran out. Then they’d swap some land, maybe a political marriage or two, then go home to tell stories of how courageous they were.
They weren’t ready for the horrors that technology would bring them.
During the Napoleonic era the highest ranks would meet for a handshake and discussion before fighting (unless you’re a traitor then you kill people in their sleep during the Christmas truce)
Now a lot of that was because communication was difficult
…And in WW2 no one was ready for what airplanes could do, and in Vietnam the Americans couldn’t wrap their minds around what a dedicated guerilla army could accomplish.
Jesus Christ!
Mohamed Bouazizi
ok but two world wars and two genocides isn’t really a good change
Ferdinand was just an excuse, the Germans had been planning and getting ready to invade France for at least a decade, meanwhile the French were also making their own plans and chomping at the bit to recover territory lost in 1870. The Assassination was essentially just an excuse to kick things off.
There are millions of names you don’t know, too.
True, but speaking scientifically, there is sufficient evidence to reject the null hypothesis.
(If shooting one CEO didn’t change anything, we can keep trying.)
Yeah, for a hot second I really thought it might become a new thing.
Protest is the way to send a message without violence. When that message goes unheard, the masses tend to shift how they communicate
We got four boxes of liberty to try to get things changed:
- Soap
- Ballot
- Jury
- Ammo
Where we at now?
I think we’re trying a little bit of the first 3 all over the country right now. I think we need to coordinate moving to box 4 soon
They literally built concentration camps already.
