The one big thing you can learn about popular uprisings from history is that they change nothing unless the classes above have reasons to seek a reconfiguration of power at higher levels. They're just flash floods that drain away unless parties with more power capture them.
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this sounds like exactly what happened in Egypt in 2011
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Correct. So what are you actually doing to advance the change?
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This reminds me of the estimate that 84% of the People’s Republic of China’s ruling class these days is descended from the pre-1949, pre-revolution ruling classhttps://twitter.com/limlouisa/status/888997653329006592?s=21 …
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Reminds me of Ceausescu last speech and how the ground movement was co-opted by the same political players who shrudly re-aligned to fill the power vacuumhttps://youtu.be/TcRWiz1PhKU
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