Re:HK media erase their archives amid rising arrests
by WastingMyTime89 on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @07:34AM
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> secession, you cannot secede in NK, even individually. They have machinegunners at the border, shooting everybody trying to run away
That's not what secession means.
Sometimes in authoritarian regimes, a portion of the territory under controls realizes it is powerful enough to be its own master. The ensuing conflicts might then topple the whole thing. That's how the Ottoman Empire fell for example.
Disintegration is always a risk for large entity.
Re:HK media erase their archives amid rising arrests
by Dah00n on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @05:08AM
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>do not simply topple, they have to be toppled.
Yes, by those next in line. They fall when those one step down from power takes it. That they might use the average citizen to gain power and that it might make it better for them than before is a side effect. It's the same in democratic elections. The average citizen never get the power, it is transferred to someone who might or might not be more aligned with their wishes.
Re:HK media erase their archives amid rising arrests
by wolverine876 on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @11:36AM
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No, many are toppled and replaced by democracies. That's where all the democracies came from - they didn't start that way.
- multiple military mutinies, now suppressed, check
- the entirety of NK civil administration been sent to firing squad, or gulags multiple times, and rebuilt anew every time it fails
- financial collapse — you will never financially collapse if you can steal
- secession, you cannot secede in NK, even individually. They have machinegunners at the border, shooting everybody trying to run away
- NorKo been under every international sanction imaginable for 70 years.
- There are insurrections in NK almost every day. They are crushed, all, and every.
My point is, dictatorships, and monarchies do not simply topple, they have to be toppled.