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    1 year ago

    This is the way it usually works. Disappear the most vocal and organised 1% of the opposition, punish the next 9% somehow, and thereby intimidate the remaining 90% into rough compliance. The trick then is to keep the loyalists onside, which is usually what brings a regime down.