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    1. This photo, of the Atlanta SWAT team that killed a protester this month, shows a government that is at war with its dissidents. And that is the modal condition for governments worldwide.
      oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API
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    It's not hard to imagine a society where governments treated constituents/citizens/humans as people primarily to be encountered through persuasion. But political policing is often a form of local military occupation in its tactical approach.
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      This is a dimension of democracy vs authoritarianism as important as universal representation, or freedom of speech and assembly.
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