Ask Ceausescu.

Ceausescu was ousted by a permitted street protest that lasted a few hours as scheduled and then everyone went back to brunch?

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nfw2 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

you are exactly proving the point, the protests seem engineered to make people think they are doing something tantamount to ousting communist dictators when they really don't seem to be doing much at all except maybe annoying the moderates already on their side

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jacquesm 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I don't know if that's true. Protests - or in fact, any large scale ability to organize people - have the potential for action baked in. Remember that the fall of the USSR started with some relatively mild protests.

It wasn't long before there were Zomo's in the streets of Gdansk, Poznan, Warsaw and many other places to try to curb those protests and that in turn is what led to the fall of the Polish regime.

	▲	nfw2 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		what actions specifically are baked in in this case. you think these protestors are on their way to toppling the federal government?