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> I'm guessing you haven't spent much time looking into how oppressive regimes work. > They aren't going "to realize that they are being an oppressive regime"
by CodeMage 8y ago
> I'm guessing you haven't spent much time looking into how oppressive regimes work.
> They aren't going "to realize that they are being an oppressive regime" and have an epiphone where they realize, "Hey maybe I'm an evil dictator?"
Not to mention that, in a truly oppressive regime, people don't have the liberty to either move or protest.
- hamhock666 8y agoThey might not have reasonable freedom to move or protest, but people will always have the radical freedom to oppose an oppressive regime. It is just much more costly and requires the knowledge that you live in an oppressive regime and access to information in order to break it.