Also what these articles always fail to consider: Usually protests become violent when peaceful protests have failed. So violent protests often face something that is much harder to change/politicians are more unwilling to change. So of course they are less often successful. Not because they are less effective, but because the nature of their demands is different.

I wish meds were like this for everyone, for me it’s just “you can concentrate for like 15-20 minutes now instead of 5-10 but in turn you get the shits like you downed half a carton of rotten eggs”