Lebanese protest still ongoing, social distancing style

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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-protests/dozens-injured-as-security-forces-clash-with-protesters-in-beirut-idUSKBN1ZH0FX

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Witnesses said riot police fired rubber bullets and used water cannons in the commercial district on Saturday night. Smoke billowed out of tear gas canisters encircling protesters as ambulances sped through the streets of the capital.

President Michel Aoun ordered the country’s army and security commanders to restore calm. Saad al-Hariri, who resigned as premier in October, said the clashes threatened civil peace. “It is an insane, suspicious and rejected scene,” he tweeted.

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The only threat to the peace and security of the people is, as evident in this case, the current use of the monopolization of violence done by the state

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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-lebanon-protests/lebanese-protesters-return-to-streets-in-car-convoys-amid-coronavirus-lockdown-idUSKCN2232WK

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Men and women popped out of their car windows, waving Lebanese flags and chanting “revolution”, protesting in their vehicles to maintain physical distance as the country combats the outbreak of the highly contagious coronavirus.

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“No one has a job anymore...Salaries keep doing down. We’re in the streets because nothing has changed since we left,” said Ali Haidar, a protester wearing a face mask in central Beirut.

“The state left us with two choices: we either die from hunger or we die from the disease...Let us at least die taking a stand.”

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[Umlilo]

I don't think there's any hope there. Most people just listen to whatever their za3im tells them. Maybe they wouldn't rely so much on them if the government could actually take care of the needs of its people, but there's no way for that to happen if people just continue to vote how they're told to. It's a vicious cycle.

My conclusion is that Lebanon's system of state-sanctioned sectarianism is a cancer, and shouldn't be emulated by other countries.

[PSOL]

I don't think there's any hope there. Most people just listen to whatever their za3im tells them. Maybe they wouldn't rely so much on them if the government could actually take care of the needs of its people, but there's no way for that to happen if people just continue to vote how they're told to. It's a vicious cycle.

My conclusion is that Lebanon's system of state-sanctioned sectarianism is a cancer, and shouldn't be emulated by other countries.

I mean the fact that many are waking up that the current system is trash, and doing something like this, is a step in the right direction.

[Umlilo]

I don't think there's any hope there. Most people just listen to whatever their za3im tells them. Maybe they wouldn't rely so much on them if the government could actually take care of the needs of its people, but there's no way for that to happen if people just continue to vote how they're told to. It's a vicious cycle.

My conclusion is that Lebanon's system of state-sanctioned sectarianism is a cancer, and shouldn't be emulated by other countries.

I mean the fact that many are waking up that the current system is trash, and doing something like this, is a step in the right direction.

I can guarantee you that most of these people think that their tribe (and their tribe only) are the true leaders of the revolution. And even if that weren't the case, it isn't in the interests of other countries for the confessional system to be dismantled, so it'll never happen until there's another civil war.

[PSOL]

I don't think there's any hope there. Most people just listen to whatever their za3im tells them. Maybe they wouldn't rely so much on them if the government could actually take care of the needs of its people, but there's no way for that to happen if people just continue to vote how they're told to. It's a vicious cycle.

My conclusion is that Lebanon's system of state-sanctioned sectarianism is a cancer, and shouldn't be emulated by other countries.

I mean the fact that many are waking up that the current system is trash, and doing something like this, is a step in the right direction.

I can guarantee you that most of these people think that their tribe (and their tribe only) are the true leaders of the revolution. And even if that weren't the case, it isn't in the interests of other countries for the confessional system to be dismantled, so it'll never happen until there's another civil war.

If that is what it takes, that is what it takes. But the drive for a better system and life is there, it just has to be agitated out of them. Giving up now is just not scientific, nothing changes in a day after all, this takes years to be realized.