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It Could Happen Here

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The Role of States in the Collapse of Social Movements

The government is actively trying to clamp down on people's bodily autonomy. And the number one thing you do if it with when there's a massive social movement going on, you need to stop it that the sort of like most dramatic thing you do is you start a war. I think this is very common across the broad historical sweep of movements. The American movements in the 60s are immediately followed by the massive intensification of Vietnam.

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