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Originally Posted by 6793026
i would have thought north korea woudl have tanked, russia as well esp how big it is yet I guess "tanking" can be many diff forms.
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With the way modern society works, it seems to me that in authoritarian govs, dissent mostly gets clipped at its buds because authorities just have so many ways to constantly monitor people and keep everyone in line.
And then should the dissatisfaction actually manage to get big, the level of force available to the 2 sides -- authorities and protesters -- are so disproportionate that protesters practically have no chance to succeed.
The only exception to this seems to be Mexican / Latin American / South American drug cartels where they can manage to have similar levels of firepower as the authorities. But they aren't really interested in overthrowing the gov.
So at best, these countries will just die a very slow death. Their economies continue to weaken and the fundamentals are all screwed up, but then the gov does stuff to prop things up here and there to keep the house of cards from collasping.