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numpad0 • yesterday at 8:11 PM • 0 replies • view on HN

They're just scared of getting fastroped and tear gassed and shot on the spot in their workplace to be then posthumously humiliated on TV as a hostile religious radicalist sympathizer engaging in trafficking of encrypted blasphemous drawings.

So they constantly engage in those ostentatious acts as almost a cultish rituals of its own to distance themselves from whatever it is.

Which is, frankly understandable. Behaviors of some of European counterterrorist units and NGOs/NPOs are rather unhinged. I would do the same if I were them. I'd even put up some religious symbols or donation receipts in the login page just to avoid giving them wrong ideas.