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JVL, thanks for the message. Authoritarian regimes have to dedicate a lot of resources to keeping people afraid and outraged. At some point, the resource usage becomes too expensive and the regime collapses. Causing "good trouble" will help accelerate the collapse as it takes more and more effort to keep people in outraged and afraid.

Imagine if the government could dedicate resources to making people's lives better instead of angry -- what a concept.

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