A fascist government will fire on innocent protestors, or at least imprison them so they can be disposed in private. Has happened in many countries in America (the continent). Tiananmen is not something only the Chinese government can do, something equivalent happened in Tlatelolco, Mexico, in a democratic regime that was a dictatorship in disguised

We’ve seen how USA is willing to rescind human and civil rights just for being on an airport or border, American citizens included, for “national security “. Now imagine what a government leaded by the likes of Trump and Elon would do. All your information is in the hands of tech megacorps, and those will hand it to your government in a heartbeat. Geolocation, contacts, sleep hours, you name it. It would be incredibly asymmetrical.