The Glade 4.0

20% is the percentage needed fora successful revolution.

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

Way to oversimplify a hugely complex chain of events covering several decades down to one line.



That's 60 million people.

You can talk on the internet all day about how "itz gunna happen dammit!". I'm waiting with baited breath.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Where did you get this number?

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A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. ~ John Stuart Mill

Tell me if you catch anything.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

He's most likely basing it off the commonly-stated percentage of people that supported the American revolution. 20% may or may not be the percentage needed for a successful revolution; it depends greatly on the rest of the population and the circumstances. In the American revolution a sizeable faction didn't care one way or the other which was a huge advantage for the revolutionaries, especially when fighting a power that had to support and command its forces from thousands of miles away with nothing faster than a sailing ship and which was busy with quite a few other things around the world.

In any case, that 20% number may or may not be accurate; some sources put the percentage of Patriots at 40-45% but loyalists only at 15-20%

Patriot faction

The Patriots came from many different backgrounds. Among the most active of the Patriots group were highly educated and fairly wealthy individuals. However, without the support of the ordinary men and women, such as farmers, lawyers, mechanics, seamstresses, homemakers, shopkeepers, and ministers, the struggle for independence would have failed.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

That = Retarded.

How so?

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Holy shitsnacks!

L O L

Rynar and Elmo's belief in the possibility of change or the motivation of the citizenry is unwarranted. That's why I stopped paying attention to politics.

It really doesn't matter what I think about it.

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"...the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Nah, it isn't the people at the Tea Parties who will move this particular mountain, Wwen. It's the inner city, who depends on the bus, and have no use for the airport, who will put this down.

This has nothing to do with politics and everything to do with "keeping it real" and "not being on the down low".

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Ezekiel 23:19-20