Are you yourself in Kazakhstan? Are you prepared to make your home the frontline to a Revolution? Are you sure you’d even have a chance in a fully armed struggle against the government? What about international reinforcements from CTSO nations? Do you think the Revolution could survive opposing spin campaigns and potential public condemnation? Or hell, do you think you could even justify its necessity in a fair forum? Would it not just give opponents of the protest all the excuse they need to react as harshly as they’d like?

None of this is to make any claims about the protests, the government, the violence surrounding all of this, or what Kazakhs should do. I’m just a long-time lurker from the other side of the world, I don’t know anything and it’s not really my place to talk even if I did. I just hope you remember there are actual people whose lives and livelihoods are in a rough place right now, and comments like “lol just do a war and kill the government ez” are really fucking dumb in a situation like this. Or any situation, really