Comments by "Comm0ut" (@Comm0ut) on "Despite more than 300 Iranians killed, protests show no signs of stopping | DW News" video.

@rebeccahenderson7761 That was not the point of observing what usually happens. Cheerleading on Youtube has no effect on the ground either. Only SOME Iranians are fighting the regime which lest we forget IS KEPT IN POWER BY A MAJORITY of Iranians who support the mullocracy. When people seriously want their government gone they do what the Taliban did (like them or not, they won their war) and apply violent force at any personal cost. Peaceful demonstrations only work on weak Western governments who have some concern for human rights, a concept alien to the Middle East excepting a minority of Westernized people. Democracy is a Western concept alien to the rest of the world and only capable of taking root in relatively modern cultures where religion is weak.
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Either they escalate or lose. They will have to match their oppressors appetite for combat sooner or later because evil men can only be slain, not redeemed (the microscopic number of exceptions prove the rule). Anyone can make IEDs or infiltrate their enemy then make "Blue on Blue" assaults. The revolution which installed the mullahs was not peaceful either and the mullahs make the inept cowardly Shah look like Spongebob by comparison. Iranian revolutionaries set examples of courage by dying, but victory is taken by destroying the enemy (who obviously agrees since they've zero compunction about shooting unarmed protestors).
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@NewtypeCommander Insightful post! Shooters and material support are key to a successful revolution just like last time.
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