comment: >
  
  Again ?
context: The Arab Spring has turned to winter once more. >
  
  Wasn't Tunisia the most promising of the bunch back then? Sad how things turned out, one shithead exchanged for another. And the people voted for these changes as well, it's not like he came out of nowhere. >
  
  
  And the people voted for these changes as well, it's not like he came out of nowhere.
  
  This is a poor and inappropriate form of buck passing.          
  The constitutional referendum had only a 30% turnout, well below achieving any democratic standard of legitimacy, due to boycotts.         
  Moreover, the President violated electoral laws during the campaign period. It wasn't a free and fair election at any point. >
  
  This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 80%. (I'm a bot)
  
  
  Thousands of protesters marched against Tunisian president, Kais Saied's, seizure of near total power in central Tunis on Saturday, demanding he step down as they marked the anniversary of a key date in the 2011 revolution that brought democracy.
  The protests come 12 years to the day after the ousting of former autocrat, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, and 14 January is seen by most Tunisian parties and civil society groups as the anniversary of the revolution.
  While there has been no major crackdown on opponents of Saied, and police have allowed most protests against him, their handling of demonstrations on 14 January last year was more forceful, prompting condemnation from rights activists.
  
  
  Extended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: party^#1 Saied^#2 protests^#3 revolution^#4 political^#5 >
  
  Guess the arab institutions werent ready for freedom.. :/ 
  Did the arab spring stick in any of the countries or are they all worse off now compared to before? >
  
  Anyone remember how the Bahraini government imported Pakistani, Saudi, Emirati, and military personnel of other countries to quell their own national Arab Spring?
  Like, imagine thinking so little about yor own compatriots, as their absolute ruler, that you would, in a twist of fate and logic in itself, rather hire foreigners to massacre your people?
  The fact that even Pakistanis (which are de facto seen as low in the Gulf ethnic hierarchy, despite how absurd and racist such concepts are in itself) got to have their way in violently quelling Arab Spring events just served to really add salt to injury towards the nationals of the affected countries...
  The Arab Spring shouldn't be forgotten & the MENA states should never be given a chance to re-write this history of theirs from the international collective knowledge. >
  
  It was a long process for the West to transform from autocracy to democracy. Took incremental steps in the Renaissance and Enlightenment and we’re still fighting to keep it.
  Give them time. >
  
  It was literally a bunch of guys that left the landmass that is Europe for another landmass that was the “New World” before any progress toward democracy took place. >
  
  Also take note that even the New World in and of itself wound up being a relatively lesser version of the Old World in terms of de facto human rights and universal freedoms.
  And this wasn't just what is now the US, either; ever wondered what happened to all the Mulato and Colored peoples of some Hispanic New World countries (Argentina, looking at you!)..?
  Yeah...