The state believes it has a monopoly on violence. After all they've spent most of a century propagandizing the public with the idea that "violence is never the answer".

It might have been well intended at first. But over the last 20ish years I've come to see it as a weapon. Look at France or hell, most other countries. Government tries to do some fuck shit and people riot. Farmers protest with a military parade of tractors and spraying manure on parliament. Those countries haven't had their populations brainwashed into the belief that "violence is never the answer". There exists an implicit threat of violence behind protest virtually anywhere on earth except the US and some other authoritarian countries.

That implicit threat doesn't exist here. Not at all. And that is why protests nationwide comprised of multiple millions of people are routinely ignored if not actively suppressed by gov't jackboots. And always mocked as agitators or outliers. And our government is absolutely terrified that people will realize it. It's why Trump's military parade is going to have 19 miles of fencing and hundreds of magnetometers. Because those at the top know the pulse of the country. They have the data. They know the causes. They've squeezed people more and more for decades. They've suppressed wages while prices grew. They've allowed technologies like AI to remain largely unregulated while wiping away millions of jobs that people depended on to survive in a sink-or-swim society that doesn't value human life beyond its utility to oligarchy. They've ignored protest for decades. Protest does not work here because it has been intentionally defanged. There is no threat behind it.

Then a fat bloviating painted cow of a man who thinks himself a king sends out masked plainclothes agents to rendition our neighbors. To kidnap people in your community. People you know. People who's children go to the same school yours do. People you see every single day. Your people. Its slow death by boiling. Suddenly interrupted by someone rapidly turning up the heat.

Bruh, seriously...