alt Hacker News> Practically, violence comes from influence of competing groups within the state. And yes, US is moving towards the same regime type
The ideological and demographic makeup of certain internet communities makes them incapable of understanding what you mean by this.
Yes, most liberal or libertarian white people can’t look at a place like say Egypt and understand why a dictator like El-Sisi is genuinely popular. They don’t have the mental structures to even understand what they’re seeing in a society that’s so different from their own.