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Behind the Bastards

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How Do Authoritarian Regimes Collapse?

Stick stones and molotov cocktails have a long history of arming non state actors, or liberation movement through our history. Research suggests that if you are prepared to do violence against property, by hitting it with a stick, throwing a stone, throwing a molotov cocktail, then you are more likely to have success in toppling an authoritarian regime. Violence against property in the name of liberation or justice is ok, and tends to work. You have to be prepared tofux him shit up, if yo, if you want to bring down a regime which he's prepared to use violence against you.

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