I’m sorry but comparing protesting in Europe to protesting in the Arab spring is nothing but auto-fellation.
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PlaidBaron@lemmy.world 1 day agoAh yes, the Arab spring was famous for being low risk. Nobody died or risked their lives at all.
Jesus, this does not help the stereotype of Americans being ignorant as fuck about the world.
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
PlaidBaron@lemmy.world 1 day ago
He said other countries. Not Europe. Dont be obtuse.
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Must be convenient to lose all knowledge of what the entire thread is about to debate-lawyer.
PlaidBaron@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Youre being deliberately obtuse. I know it. You know it.
Fishy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I said other countries above, but obviously there are different levels. Europe isn’t at that stage in yet (but you could argue the current situation in Europe doesn’t warrant such extreme protests yet). But some of the protesters in, for example, Georgia (the country), are probably on that level and with good reason
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Could be relevant if anyone had been talking about Georgia or it was in the meme. The only non-Western European country in there is Serbia, and it’s not Eastern European, it’s Southeastern European along with Greece et al.
Fishy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Deleted my previous comment about 3 min after posting, wrote too quickly and missed point. Take 2.
Mate, this doesn’t show just Western Europe + Serbia. Albania is there too. I’m sorry that this memetic content does not satisfy certain implicit criteria you seem to have about generalising to the certain regions of Europe—ie those which have been protesting more than the last few weeks. And given all that, I have no idea what your point is. Protests that have had significant impact on people’s daily lives through protesting are not just during the Arabic spring but there are modern examples in Europe.
PlasticExistence@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That’s a strawman argument. The Arabs were united enough to succeed.
Jesus, this does not help the stereotype of the angry internet commenter upon whom nuance and understanding are lost.
PlaidBaron@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Look. You use whatever excuses you need to cope with the situation. But at the end of the day, you better get used to living under a dictatorship because thats where you’ll be.
PlasticExistence@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Man, how astute and useful. Do you think this won you the argument?
The fact is you all want to see one thing: for all those guns Americans own to be turned on each other. If you think that you’re advocating for anything else - or if you think there will be any other outcome - I don’t know what to tell you.
It’s real fucking easy to wag your finger and say, “Just do X!” as though we’d never thought of that!
Get a clue and understand that you don’t understand.
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 1 day ago
“Do what I tell you to do, or you’re just making excuses! There couldn’t possibly be other real factors that affect peoples’ lives that I haven’t considered!”
PlaidBaron@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Cool strawman. May I borrow it for halloween?