• ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
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    6 hours ago

    Mobs are easier to form when your entire country is the size of a single US state and everyone who wants to participate in the country is within a day of driving to the same location. Your people aren’t less willing to be fucked over by the government. It’s just easier for the small percentage of you who will riot to meet up.

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      5 hours ago

      And most countries don’t have a police force more heavily armed than a small country’s military.

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        3 hours ago

        Decades of no accountability and poor hiring practices have made the police thugs against their citizen peers. Funded by the have nots, while protecting the haves and themselves.