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8 – The US generally also lacked the coherency of other nation states

9 – Atomisation of society through social media had a damaging impact

10 – The proliferation of car-based lifestyles

11 – The difficulty of distance

12 – The US shift towards global empire was a bad move

13 – Mass incarceration, slave labour, and similar brutalities

14 – The absence of any real opposition party

15 – Other possible sources of organised opposition were weak or failed

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@appassionatoearthling @andrewstroehlein "15 – Other possible sources of organised opposition were weak or failed" my fellow human, they MURDERED Malcom X, Fred Hampton, Martin Luther King, ... were they WEAK, or were they undermined and destroyed by the actual government?

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‘Discredit, disrupt, and destroy’: FBI records acquired by the Library reveal violent surveillance of Black leaders, civil rights organizations

It was the late 1960s, and J. Edgar Hoover smelled trouble. The status quo — hallowed by hate, sanctioned by Jim Crow — was beginning to crack.Behind the scenes, Hoover’s Federal Bureau of Investigation was keeping watch. In 1967, the FBI quietly unleashed a covert surveillance operation targeting “subversive” civil rights groups and Black leaders, including the Black Panther Party, Martin Luther King Jr., Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X, and many others.

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