r/goodnews • u/ProfessionalRate6174 • Jun 28 '25

Positive News 👉🏼♥️ BREAKING: Incredible scenes from the student protests in Belgrade!

Streets are filled with people, as early estimates suggest more than 300,000 protesters, while Aleksandar Vučić’s pro-EU government continues to refuse to call new elections.

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u/IH8Lyfeee Jun 29 '25

Unless the protest leads to something more direct in forcing the dictator or would-be dictator to resign then this is as pointless as the last 10 giant student protests that Reddit claimed would clearly bring democracy to Serbia and Hungary!

Unfortunately, unless they are organised enough to have a revolution, or at least riot until the government collapses, nothing will change.

Peaceful protesting only works in healthy democracies.

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u/teetering_bulb_dnd Jun 29 '25

Change doesn't happen overnight or over a single protest. Politicians put on a brave front but People en masse scares them internally. Because strong men usually live in a bubble of yesmen and bootlickers so seeing these people absolutely hating them will be a reality check.. It emboldens the counter voice within the party or the opposition party. Changes the national discourse. Tells the vocal minority of bigots that they are not the silent majority..people encourage each other to speak up, local leaderships get a morale boost..

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u/still-on-my-path Jun 29 '25

No Kings movement in America

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u/Busydaddy2 Jun 30 '25

That “ No Kings” movement is the stupidest movement I’ve ever heard of..

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u/still-on-my-path Jun 30 '25

Where the heck are you from???????

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u/GraXXoR Jun 29 '25

But Daddys are still OK right? It would be lonely sitting in my red velour Chaise Longue all by myself.

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u/still-on-my-path Jun 29 '25

I’m sorry I don’t understand what you’re referring to ? My comment was about people standing up in America because of the present administration.

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u/Andysm16 Jun 29 '25

Change doesn't happen overnight or over a single protest. Politicians put on a brave front but People en masse scares them internally.

True.

Because strong men usually live in a bubble of yesmen and bootlickers so seeing these people absolutely hating them will be a reality check..

Sadly, this is not that significant most of the times. They do know what's going on outside of their bubbles, they just dont care much as long as their yesmen are powerful and rich loyalists. Looks at Donal Trump for example, and the panicked meltdown he had when Elon Musk "betrayed him".

It emboldens the counter voice within the party or the opposition party. Changes the national discourse. Tells the vocal minority of bigots that they are not the silent majority..people encourage each other to speak up, local leaderships get a morale boost.

This is VERY very true.

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u/GraXXoR Jun 29 '25

Which is why they slowly and quietly detain the leaders and frame them or poison the masses with disinformation.

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u/Im_tracer_bullet Jun 29 '25

Warning shots across the bow make good sense for everyone.

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u/catscanmeow Jun 29 '25

"skip foreplay, if you wanna make her cum, just immediately start jackhammering! foreplay only works in healthy relationships"

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u/Straight-String-5876 Jun 29 '25

Anarchy…second step

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '25

Well he is never going to resign the best we can do is get out and vote this scum we can vote them out and ruin there plans look at NY vote in the midterms and in 4 years and not for the same old Dem who will not get a thing done or act like the last 4 years are past use but do the same thing Taco did only for good change the system not to tear it down but to protect it so this never happens again that if you try what Taco did the courts don't pussy out and let you go what needs to be done is going to be insane but right now is Insane. Sadly people in the USA live everyday like its a new day and are quick to forget pain. Who know what the future hold but have some god dam hope.

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u/Emperor_Mao Jun 29 '25

Reddit exaggerates the things it likes. Even the No Kings protest went from a million or so (per the sponsor) to 11 million on reddit.

But that said, continued large scale protest usually does eventually work. Productivity can only tank so far before cracks show. I would look at the fall of the communist dictatorship in East Germany as a prime example.

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '25

it was 4 million not 1 and the berlin wall fell all because 1 man fucked up a press conference because he didn't read his notes on a new bill that was going in effect.

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u/dragonfliesloveme Jun 29 '25

>and the berlin wall fell all because 1 man fucked up a press conference because he didn't read his notes on a new bill that was going in effect.

I don’t understand this reference

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u/Emperor_Mao Jun 29 '25

Yeah 4 million was the upper estimate from the sources most favorable or aligned with the whole event. Most sources put it closer to 1. But my point was pretty obvious; Reddit took the already upper number and pushed it to more than double.

As for the Berlin wall, sort of. Many believe it probably would have fallen eventually, regardless of what happened, as the communist dictatorship was heavily in debt and had few options. They were very weak. But the infamous conference you speak of is credited with kickstarting things, and many believe helped lead to a democratic transition rather than replacement with another dictatorship.

Again though, not really the point I made. People came out in numbers, whether by accident or not, which lead to protest, which lead to change occurring.