• Ice@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    How do you mean? Most authoritarian regimes are maintained with fear and violence. Even in democratic states that don’t primarily rule through fear the government generally has a monopoly on using violence to enforce the law.

    • SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org
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      2 days ago

      I mean that as we’ve seen cops are easy to start using pellets and gas, and when people respond throwing rocks, suddenly it’s a ‘violent insurrection’; that’s why I said it’s important to see who started it.