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title: "Timeline photos Timeline photos Timeline photos Timeline photos…"
date: 2020-04-03
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# Timeline photos Timeline photos Timeline photos Timeline photos…

*April 3, 2020 · Facebook*

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How do you know you\'re living in an authoritarian dictatorship? Below are my criteria. What are your criteria? How many of them have already been met in your country?\
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\* You\'re not allowed to leave the country without government permission.\
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\* You can be arrested and imprisoned indefinitely without trial.\
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\* You can be tortured in prison.\
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\* You can be executed without trial.\
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\* All of your possessions (savings, house, car) can be seized without trial.\
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\* You\'re not allowed to work without government permission.\
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\* The government controls most schools in the country, and forces children to attend and learn government approved coursework.\
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\* All forms of communication are wiretapped (phone, email, IM, mail) by the government.\
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\* The government controls most of the economy, and what it doesn\'t directly control, it heavily regulates.\
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\* Many kinds of businesses are banned entirely.\
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\* There are shortages of many necessities.\
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\* The government has imposed price controls.\
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\* The government surveils all financial transactions, and imprisons those who offer financial services without reporting to the government.\
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\* Citizens must abide by curfews, and can be arrested and fined if found outside after curfew\
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\* Sales of self-defensive weapons and ammunition are heavily restricted to government officials and politically connected cronies.\
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\* The government has a monopoly over the money supply, and is rapidly inflating the currency (to the tune of trillions of dollars) to subsidize/bailout cronies.\
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\* The government tries to bribe the public to support the regime by giving out money and rations.\
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\* Citizens are encouraged to snitch on each other if they notice anyone who doesn\'t follow government policy.\
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\* Government dictates shift from day to day, and one can be imprisoned or heavily fined for following dictates that were government policy just a few days before.\
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\* Government controlled supplies of vital goods are allocated according to loyalty to the ruling party.\
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\* You can be fired or put in prison for expressing opinions considered taboo or disloyal to the government.\
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\* Whistleblowers who report on government malfeasance are imprisoned or tortured.\
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\* Journalists who print articles critical of the government are imprisoned, tortured, or killed.\
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\* The government has seized control over all the banks.\
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\* The government has imposed capital controls limiting the movement of money and other assets out of the country.\
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\* Prisoners are kept in crowded and inhumane conditions.\
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\* It\'s impossible to count all of the laws, let alone avoid breaking the law. The government can always find a charge to arrest anyone, if motivated enough.\
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\* The government engages in endless wars of aggression.\
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\* The government targets ethnic minorities as scapegoats.\
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\* Merely possessing contraband books can get you thrown in prison for a decade or more.\
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\* It\'s illegal to use software that doesn\'t have back doors which the government can enter at will.\
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\* Surveillance cameras track the movements of every citizen at all times.\
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\* All citizens must present identification papers upon command or risk arrest.
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