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by dragonwriter 474 days ago
> Like I don't see too many of the items applying to classically authoritarian regimes like China.

The first (“Year 1 under an authoritarian regime”) is explicitly, and the rest also implicitly, about the transition from something loosely approximating a liberal democratic republic or Constutional monarchy to an authoritarian state; its not about surviving in an established authoritarian regime.