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Fun Fact - it does not need to be real to be funny and motivate updoots.

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.

What you’re not understanding is that quashing a protest with force doesn’t make the anger just go away.

Please don’t try to guess what I think, understand or don’t understand, because you are arguing against a straw man of your own making.

Given that your account is 4 days old I’m going to leave it there. I have no interest in engaging someone who may be a bad-faith troll. We can have another talk if you’re still around in a month or so.

Read up on the '92 LA riots. Do you think US authorities are willing to use more, or less force today than then? Do you think LA civilians today have a larger, or lesser capacity for violence?

Thankfully I don’t think US authorities are anywhere close to PRC or Russia levels of force usage against civilians, but I would bet on the badges coming out on top if it came to a chicken race. That’s not to say it wouldn’t get ugly.

Sure they can, that’s called a revolution - in that case those who caused the disorder get called “heroes” and “freedom fighters”.

If they get smushed by the current authorities coming back in force, then they get written into the history books as “criminals”, “rebels” or “insurrectionists”.

Winner writes history and all that.

Having seen a couple of vids from folks on the ground it seemed akin to a proper French riot. Folks lobbing bricks, makeshift barricades, vehicles burning etc.

Yeah folks may feel justified an upset but it isn’t exactly surprising when authorities crack down to restore order in such a situation.