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Mr Khan said:
Kasz216 said:

Hey, here's hoping...  this is some crazy stuff.


It's great to see such optimisim and hope for freedom after the economic downturn seems to put everyone into a "too much freedom is bad" mood and mindset in the west.

Bad economy leads to reaction. The West likes to let capitalism run free in boom times and reacts to bad times by tightening it, whereas non-free systems react by liberalizing, either economically or politically

Think of it this way: the same exact reasons led to the fall of the Tsars and the fall of the Soviets

Have the middle east had that rough of it lately though?  I mean the big thing in Egypt is the protests were started by the middle class.  From what I heard Egypt was expected to come out a "winner" of the whole thing.

Though, what with their internet down... god knows how that's going to fuck with their economy.