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[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

They're in what, day 5 now? So many protests going on it's almost hard to keep track of! It's like a contagion spreading around the globe

[–]Tom_Bombadil 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

So many protests going on it's almost hard to keep track of! It's like a contagion spreading around the globe.

And they all seem to be reasonably legit grassroots protests; as opposed to color revolution NGO mischief.

[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I am on the fence about that, I am trying to decide if that's the case or not still. I thought the Arab Spring was genuine at first too

[–]Tom_Bombadil 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I thought the Arab Spring was genuine at first too

It would be difficult to imagine a scenario where opportunistic states, oligarchs and NGO's wouldn't attempt to insert their agenda for political/economic gain/control/secret society.

In this sense; independent revolutions are probably a thing of the past.

To the extent that any revolutions have ever been independent.

Edit: Also, any/all revolutions there are 3 or more sides. That minimum can be safely bumped to 4 in the modern era.

[–]magnora7 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I agree with this analysis.

[–]Tom_Bombadil 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

;-)

[–]Snow 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Look at Facebook. They can ban all of this information if they don't want or show them everywhere.