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A fairly silly article with a fairly silly thesis. There’s always protest movements going on somewhere; it would take a lot of statistics to convince me that 20
by larnmar 7y ago
A fairly silly article with a fairly silly thesis. There’s always protest movements going on somewhere; it would take a lot of statistics to convince me that 2019 is any kind of outlier.
And there’s nothing global about the current grab-bag of movements, they’re very much local issues.
- airstrike 7y agoAgreed. If anything, the Arab Spring was much bigger than the current set of unrelated protests
- paulpauper 7y agoexactly. many of these counties are always protesting about something. America's constitutional republic , compared to direct democracy, somewhat helps buffer against such unrest.
- zby 7y agoMy intuition is that you are wrong - but your argument is important one: https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/09/16/cardiologists-and-chinese-robbers/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/09/16/cardiologists-and-chin...