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9 hours agoit’s both. they see no positive path to a positive outcome for anyone. and that’s the point of the kind of terror regimes like north korea and russia implement. the more terror you keep a person under all the time, the easier it is to give them an apparent strong man who claims to deliver them from the terror he implements
that’s what the strong men do. they promise to keep you safe from the terror they implement, but for you to be scared, there must be real risk of your death