“We are all culpable,” Matt Nelson said before lighting himself on fire. This is the third such incident in a year.

“We are all culpable,” Matt Nelson said before lighting himself on fire. This is the third such incident in a year.

  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    1·
    1 month ago

    The Arab Spring is an obvious example.

    And how did that one, specifically, turn out in the long run? I’m not an expert, but it is my understanding that the Arab Spring is considered by most to have been a failure.

    • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
      12·
      1 month ago

      Well, it successfully overthrew several governments and collapsed several countries. It accomplished something.

      The problem, of course, is that there wasn’t an organized revolutionary movement behind it. Spontaneous uprisings almost never work out for the better, we can’t just overthrow the government and then expect things to naturally work themselves out.