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Accusing people they don't like of being part of an organization that does not in fact exist, is great for an authoritarian regime.
Because it's extremely difficult to prove you are not a member of an organization when it is entirely fictional to begin with.
You wind up having to prove that the organization doesn't exist. Which is proving a negative -- an almost impossible thing to do convincingly.
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2026-06-25 20:35:25 UTCEvent JSON
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