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Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee
110%. So much tough guy internet keyboard warrior tough talk in this thread it's hilarious. 95% of regular people don't have the balls to be the ones to stand up to Russian militia, police, security enforcers in a protest to try and get the required hundreds of thousands / MILLIONS of people to rise up and join the kind of mass protest truly needed. Furthermore, Russia has adequately demonstrated, throughout history long ago and recently, that they will absolutely tolerate precisely zero protest or political / regime change engagement so you better pray you aren't the first one to stand up, or you may just end up like that lady in the video a couple pages back.
So no, everyone sitting around clamouring that Russian people need to stand up, I doubt any of you would do anything first of all in the same position and second of all and importantly- what- precisely are you expecting Larry the plumber or Suzie the librarian to do against these properly trained and armed security personnel that have actual direct orders to cause as much harm as fast as possible against you?
If a mass protest starts to erupt, I 1,000,000% expect Russia to start unloading on its own crowds. Without doubt. It'll be a slaughterfest, and there will be exactly zero protests thereafter. Let's get a bit real here people. Are you going to go run up and stage a protest, or get the absolute #### outta there? This is not a tough decision when the weight of the fragility of life is concerned.
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This is nonsense.
There are currently large protests going on in Iran, 50 confirmed dead and uncountable number of injuries. Not over.
Syrians started a civil war after the government replied to protests woth violence, and would have probably succeeded if Russia hadn't intervened.
There have been protests
today in occupied Ukraine. In fact Ukrainian civilians have been standing up to Russian military unarmed multiple times over this occupation.
China is no less draconian than Russia, there have been very large protests just this year, enough to call the military in.
In frickin Afghanistan this year, under Taleban, there have been plenty of open protests.
It took months to shut down Belarussian protests last year, despite outright torture used towards captured protestors. They didn't topple Lukashenko, but caused a significant weakening to his position, possibly enough to be a decisive factor in keeping Belarus out of the war in Ukraine.
Venezuelans arranged tens of thousands of protests in the 2010's despite thousands arrested and hundreds dead.
Russians are just chickensh*t, collectively speaking. This would be a perfect time to rise up. Huge numbers of the security force are tied up in Ukraine, and the military is extremely dissatisfied with the war.