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  What gives you the perception that Iranians see this as normal?
context: Hard to hear.  But important reminder that marches and street demonstrations will do absolutely nothing to bring down the Iranian regime.  
  No dictatorship will give up unless the members and enforcers of the regime face legitimate danger from violence -- certainly not one as well-entrenched as Khamenei. >
  
  Then let them face danger. Let them face violence. >
  
  That's what I'm saying.  We need less protests in public squares and more raids on police stations to steal weapons and ammunition.  More dead regime officials.  More dead regime police.  More explosions and fires in regime homes and offices.
  
  
  Make the paid thugs afraid to go to work.  
  
  
  Make the regime profiteers worry about their source of funds.  
  
  
  Make the regime elite think about where they should be offshoring their wealth and property.
  
  
  They're laughing at the protests -- marching straight from the public square into jail cells. >
  
  Yeah that's not gonna work. >
  
  It's either that or just get comfortable living with the regime forever. >
  
  Yeah that sounds more realistic/reasonable >
  
  This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 88%. (I'm a bot)
  
  
  How did Armita become a symbol of resistance of the Iranian people in the face the Islamic Republic's fierce crackdown on more than four months of demonstrations demanding more freedoms and women's rights? What do we know about her ordeal during the nearly four months she has spent behind bars?
  After the leaked messages were published, Raja News and other media outlets affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps quoted Hossein Fazeli Harikandi, the president of Alborz province's Department of Justice, as saying that two arrested demonstrators had "Confessed" that Armita was a protest leader.
  Now Armita's has become a symbol of the Iranian protest movement.
  
  
  Extended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Armita^#1 protest^#2 lawyer^#3 arrest^#4 wrote^#5 >
  
  I am always shocked by how it seems to me that Iranians think the government raping,  torturing people and extracting fake confessions is normal.
  Normal governments do not do this.
  But it feels like people accept this is how governments treat people.
  Are people so brainwashed?
  Or am I missing something?