• witten@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    They make examples of a few to cow the rest into submission. Classic authoritarianism playbook.

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      5 hours ago

      Hasn’t worked. People are furious about the deaths and the kidnappings.

      And something people don’t understand about the East German regime — people calculate that half the country was spying on the other, implying the stasi was half the population. But it was neighbors denouncing each other as counterrevolutionaries over petty squabbles.

      Donald has accidentally united people against him, not divided us.

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        4 hours ago

        Dude, totally. I’m just talking about the playbook they’re using. I’m not saying it’s remotely working for them.