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Fiendish Thingy

(20,255 posts) Sun Jun 15, 2025, 05:08 PM Jun 15

Pod Save America: Do You Know The 3.5% Rule? [View all]

How nonviolent resistance succeeds in toppling autocracy when 3.5% or more of a nation’s population becomes engaged in the movement.

(Don’t let the length of the show dissuade you from listening, the guest does an excellent summary within the first 10 minutes)

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Pod Save America: Do You Know The 3.5% Rule? [View all] Fiendish Thingy Jun 15 OP

5 mil protestors divided by 350 mil people is only 1.4%, at that number not even close to 3.5% msongs Jun 15 #1

Indeed. IMO, it would take a truly catastrophic government-initiated event to generate engagement at the 3.5% threshold Fiendish Thingy Jun 15 #4

But if you use the number 154,000,00 (amount who voted in the 2024 election) you get close fierywoman Jun 15 #2

The 3.5% rule applies to the entire population of the nation Fiendish Thingy Jun 15 #5

FWIW the counting of the protestors yesterday is now up to 11 million. fierywoman Jun 15 #6

Source? Fiendish Thingy Jun 16 #8

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220403528 fierywoman Jun 16 #9

Really interesting interview. iemanja Jun 15 #3

it's a ton of people and nervous repubs certainly paid attention... hard core magats probably not nt msongs Jun 15 #7