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by BetterLateThan 4685 days ago
> It is hard to know where this is leading.

Is it? Tacitus, Livy, Suetonius, Marcellinus, Plutarch say otherwise.

TLDR:

As long as citizens think they have something to lose [1], their fear will be used against them by the Praetorian guard, all the way to the Crisis of the Third Century and subsequent dissolution of the empire.

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[1] We are all going to die no more than once, with no luggage allowed at checkout. What is there to lose?