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Can we stop calling it a "protest" and call it what it is: a revolutionary uprising.

Labeling it a "protest" is equating it to what a bunch of clustered people holding stupid billboards and yelling into microphones. This isn't that.

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It started like that though. It was a protest, then government military start killing people, again, and again, and once deadly violence is on the board, protester takes arms and shoot too. Then bystanders get killed, protesters get killed, some government military police get killed, and here if the government still has a bit of morality left, you get Euromaidan. If its the military, you get what happened in Nepal.

However, if none of that happen, you have a civil war.

Lets not all change our word use because it doesn't align with your narrow definition of protest.

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