(A) <thread>

You might be living under authoritarian rule if they...

1. Stop you seeing friends and family.
2. Won't let you out without permission.
3. Tell you what to wear.
4. Monitor your phone or emails.
5. Control the finances, or won't let you work.

(B)

6. Control what you read watch and say.
7. Monitor everything you do.
8. Punish you for breaking the rules. But the rules keep changing!
9. Tell you that it is for their own good, and they know better.
10. Don't allow you to question it.

(C)

11. Tell you you're crazy & no one agrees with you.
12. Call you names or shame you for being stupid or selfish.
13. Gaslight you, challenge your memory of events, make you doubt yourself.
14. Dismiss your opinions
15. Play the victim. If things go wrong, it's all your fault

(D)

Except...

These 15 signs were not written with your government -- or SAFETY Mullahs -- in mind.

They are a list of 15 signs of an abusive relationship from the Workplace Mental Health Institute.

https://twitter.com/justin_hart/status/1332735410145935360?s=20