> Though you could say it was the American Revolution that set things off and that it merely took America 250 years to go through the progression that the French Revolution traveled in a mere 5 years
We're still quite a far way off from literally beheading people in the streets (and no, having your Twitter account banned is not even remotely comparable)
No need to cut heads off. It’s less messy and more palatable to take someone’s entire livelihood away. Any real threat to power comes from the middle class. Make it so their precarious status depends on loyalty to your ideology and you have all the control you need.
We're still quite a far way off from literally beheading people in the streets (and no, having your Twitter account banned is not even remotely comparable)