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> I can't think of any significant nation that has caved to orchestrated, vested moral outrage and said "sorry you guys... we'll hold elections next years and play by your rules henceforth",

Governments regularly cave in due to protests in democratic countries. It happened in the Netherlands a few months ago, for example.

Moreover, it's fundamentally important the fact that protests exist.

Comparing any western democracy to a dictatorship is the worst form of whataboutism.