Hear, hear.
Every authoritarian government has its supporters, without they would never survive.
And that's the thing: those people are absolutely maddening to argue with. In Gaza, the war crimes were (and still are being) live streamed, and the question was how is there still any doubt. Some of those same people see videos of the protests and the people identifying bodies in makeshift morgues and somehow argue their way around it.
I hope the protesters are successful. I know a Syrian family who fled the war. I coincidentally met some of them on their shift the day the Assad regime was toppled. One of them said, "we can breathe now". Meanwhile in the middle of the city the people were celebrating. It's hard to describe how happy I felt for all of them.
When you're kinda worried what the state of your country is gonna be like after your pro-democracy protests topple the regime and your homie says, "Hey, look at how great the Syrians have it!"
