![[CW: the most embarrassing liberalism that might actually give you a concussion] People are dying and they still think they can solve this with civil protest](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/80da2324-d2e4-406c-a62e-ea0158ea43fc.jpeg){kind=link}
Hoping to hell that’s an AI or a bot because this might be the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard
Before you get depressed, know that there are people who actually are calling this shit out and there are people who are suggesting actual helpful techniques in that sub. But damn, that particular post was wow.
Anyway, I’m not going back to the reddit mines for a while.
The Russian ruling family actually helped the protesters out in that regard; they had their soldiers shoot the protesters en masse
Fuck
I don’t want to die
That’s the thing, most people don’t want to die
If you want to read more about it, they are probably referring to bloody sunday:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Sunday_(1905)
But it’s worth noting that there were a few other huge factors. As some other examples, the Tsardom had a habit of doing pogroms against its Jewish population, which is the main reason that there were so many Jewish revolutionaries (this is part of the origin of the Judeobolshevism myth), and WWI had been going on for a few years and was seen by many as a barbaric meat grinder that accomplished nothing (especially those with family or friends on the frontlines), but the liberal provisional government refused to withdraw from the war. You might also find the story of how the Bolshevik withdrawal went to be interesting for other reasons.
It also helped that the Russian army actually was mostly regular people that got conscripted, so the revolutionaries actually could convince most of the soldiers to turn coat