the grenades are the clearest sign that they're meant for this style of oppression since they've explicitly permitted to be used by the police, but not soldiers.
i literally just pointed out many instances of the same thing happening outside of china; my point is that it happens everywhere and your feeling that it only happens is china is not reality.
the use of grenades is legal for ice, but not for the military and intentionally so, so that they can't be prescuted for using them against american civilians.
it's not just the usa; similar actions have happened in the uk and france regarding the genocide and they've also punished people for advocating for lgbtq rights in the past.
that feeling that you have regarding repression from countries like china is only a feeling; not reality.
I just have this feeling like you get persecuted for speaking against the government in countries like China
Tell that to the students that were expelled from their universities and had their degrees revoked or the public employees that were for fired for speaking out against the American government's support for the Gazan genocide.
Not to mention the civil servants that were fired/fined for advocating for LGBTQ rights in the decades past.
it's hard to image given that the largest factions are the maga-conservatives who occupy a continuous geographical area of the country and the neo-liberals who occupy disjointed geographical pockets on the east & west costs along with relatively thin majorites in even smaller pockets the northern midwest around the great lakes and an even weaker majority and even smaller pockets in the western part of the southwest around new mexico & colorado.
if balkanazation were to occur, i would guess that the relative political unity & economic prowess of texas would dominate the territory of the united states since its political identity extends well beyond texas' current borders already and it's well positioned at the near center of the country to maintain its hegemony as opposed to it's largest rivals in california and new york who are too poorly positioned the edges of the opposite coasts and whose economies are dependent on the interior. also, an overwhelming majority of the population outside the neo-liberal pockets within the current geography of both california and new york is dominated by a political identify that's significantly closer to texas than it is to either california or new york; considerably more so in california.
the only way the united states wouldn't simply turn into a super-sized-texas is if mexico was somehow in a position to intervene in southern california and canada or europe with the rest of the coasts. however, if the united states is balkanizing, it would likely mean that canada and mexico are likely in not great shape either; so a super-sized-texas is the most likely outcome in all scenarios.
it bet it'll survive in the same way it survived before the welfare based improvement of the 20th century; by disposing of generations worth of americans for the sake of the richest and ensuring that their descendants will never be well educated about it enough to realize what happened.
they said covid was a dress rehearsal for the next pandemic, but i think it's going to become standard operations as we keep vacillating between diet-facism w the democrats and full-fat-fascism w the republicans for the next several decades.
the democrats didn't even bother to put up a fight on spanish media; they just assumed that people would vote for them anyways like they assumed people would ignore their complicity with a genocide or ignore that things are getting economically worse for americans simply because trump is such an asshole.
and it's going to happen again in the next election cycle when the democrats decide that they don't want to piss off their oligarchic donors instead of helping their voting base.
the grenades are the clearest sign that they're meant for this style of oppression since they've explicitly permitted to be used by the police, but not soldiers.