Judging by usage, the word "dissident" seems to be an implicit claim that the government in question conducts show trials.
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"Dissident" is one of those words where most of the meaning is in the connotations. Like "disgruntled" before "employee."
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Hitchens: The noble title of "dissident" must be earned rather than claimed; it connotes sacrifice and risk rather than mere disagreement.
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two conditions: they question the legitimacy of the system, and the system responds with various forms of oppression to silence them.
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When there is a real chance that one can go to jail for stating one's opinions.
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Skin color
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We are at it. The threshold is when democratic checks fail not what a citizen says.
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About the same as when Hillary called everyone "Deplorables".
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When the government makes their lives painful for dissent. Show trials are optional, there are many other ways
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When there's sufficient brainwashing by the propaganda machine?
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When the government kills, jails, or financially ruins them merely for being critical. Obama sent the IRS after critics. Has Trump?
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@nandanreddy @shearsha@rahuljaimini, wnt apology frm u fr spoiling my Sunday.Ord#1098163573 nt delivrd but SMS/mail says so.
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Just below getting called a terrorist
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When they diss the government, of course.
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Dissident is a person who opposes the official policy of an authoritarian state. AUTHORITARIAN is a precondition for a Dissident.
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depends [on lots of thing, starting with whose judgement you are borrowing]?
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