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I want to add here the intentional psychological abuse of two groups: immigrants and federal employees. While scholars and philosphers have studied genocide and collective oppression, they haven't gotten around to looking at the more initial phase of intentional psychological torture targeted towards specific groups. "Hostile workplace" is generally not intended by management, but DOGE is trying to get Federal workers to quit by making them miserable. Lack of transparency for ICE actions keeps immigrants (all of them) perpetually afraid.

Prisons intentionally humiliate prisoners as a way of keeping them in line, but prisoners generally at least know what to expect: it's a kind of routine that they can learn to psychologically resist. Prison procedures are also constrained by law and regulation.

We will need a way to include collective psychological abuse in future lists of criminal and/or impeachment charges. Such accusations might come in handy now for current lawsuits against DOGE. Any ideas?

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