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This video is from 2021 and well illustrates my point. The children, ages 8-12, are being detained for picking flowers and wild vegetables near their homes. That alone will affect them emotionally, but how many of them are going to be lobotomized? Not saying that has happened to these kids, but psychosurgery is a very simple way to subdue an entire population if enough of the children and young people are maimed. Put on your strongest realist hat and realize how effective this strategy is, especially when done over several generations. I bet there are few authoritarian states with hated minorities who are not doing this. ABN
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