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They also suggested they could arrange for her mother to be killed if she did not sign cooperation papers.
I mean… if the FSB says they are going to kill your mother I’d take the threat seriously. They’ve demonstrated that they can more or less kill with impunity on British soil… presumably in Russia they can do much worse.
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yeah sure that’s totally free will she had here
Intelligence services are masters of psychology.
They will “recruit” you, if they think you will be useful, and have an exploitable weakness.
Like a fetish for golden showers from Eastern European women ohgodthatswhyhelikesgoldnowicantstopseeinghessurroundinghimselfwithurinefuckfuckfuck
Smear headline for someone that was a victim of coercion.
But which one? How to tell?
That’s a shame.
What if her story is fake, and she was a plant all along?
Can anyone trust her ever again?
No more or less than you’d trust anybody else you didn’t know. Trust isn’t a default, it’s earned.
And Western (neo)-Liberal nations do the same thing to their activists.
…in both cases it’s a type of fascism. The suppression and repression of non-violent political popularism is ALWAYS a form of fascism. Even when that suppression is done by ostensibly liberal democratic societies.
While I broadly agree in sentiment, is it always a form of fascism specifically, or just authoritarianism…? I feel like we’re starting to hit a point of just conflating the two, and I don’t really think they mean entirely the same thing…
While it isn’t exactly the same thing, it’s just a different flavor of shitty.
Ok I’ll come forward. My co-conspirators are Trump and Netanyahu
