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Heretic | 6 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +4 
 They don't even need to make sense to take away your freedom. Why even have a trial anymore?
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f0xr | 6 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +4 
 The purpose of the trial is to make an example out of someone and intimate everyone else by showing openly that they can destroy anyone's life at any time for any reason. See Soviet show trials. 

The reason for the intimidation is because they're a weak and pathetic minority, and if a significant number of people pushed back they'd be finished in no time. So they have to make sure that never happens.
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Heretic | 6 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +3 
 That makes sense.  Oppression is unnatural and requires constant vigilance to maintain.  Fiat will fail by attrition and all the plebs piling up like small cracks in the dam.
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Stirling Forge | 6 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 True. Very succinct way of putting it.
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mleku | 6 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 yeah it's a show trial to intimidate people

it's not gonna work, i been in the business of this for some time, drugs, bitcoin, now nostr, it's all the same... they can't really stop us, they don't have the budget

see the movie THX-1138 for an illustration of how determined rebels in a socialistic totalitarian system are ultimately free because they can't really afford to enforce their authority only pretend to
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mleku | 6 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 also, anyone who has spent a decent amount of time in eastern europe will have heard stories and even directly experienced the culture of passive resistance that succeeds in stopping their bullshit
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f0xr | 6 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Absolutely, once the money they print to pay the jackboots to enforce their "laws" no longer buys anything, the jackboots go elsewhere. And the totalitarians are left exposed as the weak and pathetic people they are. 

Thanks for the recommendation, will check it out. 

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