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people (and aliens, in this particular universe) naturally hate being oppressed, so every act of fascism and oppression creates more resistance, more backlash. By contrast, “tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks”—until, one day, “one single thing will break the siege.”

✏️ As Nemmik says (along the lines of), their control is unnatural. It’s against nature, against how things just are.
Goes hand in hand with the idea that freedom is an idea that will occur spontaneously.
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