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Fear is dictatorship glue. You can't imprison everyone with a dissenting thought. Or inconvenient factual observation. But fear teaches self censorship. It's a scalable system of control. The autocrat's challenge is to keep the fear going. 1/

Apr 28, 2025, 10:17 AM

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