• @qarbone
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    3 days ago

    Could be a punishment in the vein of “one of you defied, so you’ll all be punished.” Y’know, l everaging a person’s individual fear of being the “cause” for things getting worse to prevent them from attempting to make any changes. It’s a classic crackdown in authoritarian areas.

    Edit: not to say that’s what’s happening, but that is a methodology.