Re:X glitch wipes out most pictures and links tweeted before...
by kanbara on Sunday August 20, 2023 @04:40PM
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firstly, he said social change, not positive change
secondly, why not champion the _potential_ for tools like twitter to act to release all of that energy -- just because arab spring didn't turn out as positive as people hoped, doesn't mean that that arab spring ii won't.
Re:X glitch wipes out most pictures and links tweeted before...
by hollerith on Sunday August 20, 2023 @04:45PM
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Me: at least 306,887 civilians killed (per United Nations) in the Syrian civil war with 6.7 million internally displaced & 6.6 million refugees.
You: why not champion the potential for tools like twitter to act to release all of that energy?
Yes, Tunisia is more democratic that it was before Arab Spring, but Tunisia still only scores at 5.51 on the Economist Intelligence Unit's democracy index (compared to 2.79 at the start of the Spring). More importantly, Tunisia's population (11.7 million Tunisians) is only about 1 or 2 percent of the Arab population, and probably that many Arabs have been killed by the unrest and the civil wars in Egypt, Yemen and Syria.