This. The comic is dead on accurate. There has never been a point in history where violence wasn't necessary to take back rights from oppressive rulers. If the ones above you are willing to spill blood, there is no alternative but to spill it back. They aren't gunna give up power just because you ask or tell them to stop.
Except there are cases where non-violent disobedience DOES work. The obvious cases would be Martin Luther King and the 1950s - 1960s Civil Rights movement in the USA, and the movement to get the British out of India in the 1930s and 1940s, with Gandhi being a major proponent. Extra bonus points to Gandhi for stopping a fucking genocide in Calcutta by means of a hunger strike after the British left.
It's all very circumstancial and depends as much on the nature of the oppressors and their willingness to openly be the bad guys - it's very far from a universal solution, but your sweeping statement that violence is always necessary isn't correct.
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u/NuggleBuggins Jul 28 '26
This. The comic is dead on accurate. There has never been a point in history where violence wasn't necessary to take back rights from oppressive rulers. If the ones above you are willing to spill blood, there is no alternative but to spill it back. They aren't gunna give up power just because you ask or tell them to stop.