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  1. …in reply to @AlmostMedia
    @AlmostMedia they accept the costs as necessary to attain their ends. but the ends are also served by being very vocal about the costs, by painting their opponents as people who are cruel and oppressive. what would it serve them to bear the costs silently?
    1. …in reply to @v21
      @AlmostMedia or, to be more concrete: the overreaction of Colombia to the first wave of protests strengthened the second wave of protests. if the first wave of protesters had just accepted the reaction as normal, then you don't get the second wave. that obviously wouldn't help their cause.