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Protests do successfully force acknowledgment of problems from the majority of the population, that can be closed to different ideas trough other means.

They do also have a large amount of success in establishing as public knowledge that an idea is well supported, despite mainstream information channels claiming otherwise.

And finally, they have the form people take when fighting anti-democratic actions. What is a completely different action, but looks exactly alike from the outside.



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