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oh fuck, i read about that but her name didn't stick. so horrendously messed up. i live in a country where expressing support for those resisting empire is terrorism. we'll reach a point here where, if everything is terrorism, people will just do actual terrorism since the punishment is the same. i obviously don't support anybody breaking the law
but i can't help but wonder if the state has engineered the extreme over-punishment in your country and mine to provoke an extreme reaction which will then be used to manufacture the consent needed for the state to begin something much worse.
it's very understandable that you'd want to stay well away.