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11 Sep, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Its funny how it works: repress and create dissent. Go after dissenters hard and you end up creating more dissenters and radicalising others, and then in reaction you crack down more and more in ridiculous ways. Best part is the cycle can continue indefinitely.
Until, eventually, there is no longer a contract between state and citizen. And that, boys and girls, is when things get really bad.
But you're too arrogant. Too stupid to see that.
It would be fascinating to watch, if I didn't actually have to live through it.

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