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Specifically, he continued, “Those thematics are, I believe, the weaponization of fear. The use of fear as a tool to divide, to conquer, to consume, to pacify in order to gain power.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin has used similar methods to disorient and pacify the Russian public.

"They didn't like it and that's going to be our goal, to pacify the crowd."

I don't think we should expect to pacify the crowd, that might not be possible.

“Complicit in the narrative of pacified killings it’s a / Sore sight when you gotta choose / The lesser of two evils either one will prove / That we’re socially in apathy what’s left to lose?”