Yeah, [ Kostos says, approximately, more casual in Nevarran, ] well, fuck them. It's telling enough they got comfortable in the first place.
[ They'll know where they stand, too—they already have some measure of who's committed and who isn't, with the strike, and more hardship will only slough away additional dead weight. Or, alternatively, they'll wind up with no weight whatsoever, a handful of hardliners in a sea of people who just want everything to calm down, too outnumbered to accomplish anything, lucky to escape with their own lives and independence, if that.
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[ They'll know where they stand, too—they already have some measure of who's committed and who isn't, with the strike, and more hardship will only slough away additional dead weight. Or, alternatively, they'll wind up with no weight whatsoever, a handful of hardliners in a sea of people who just want everything to calm down, too outnumbered to accomplish anything, lucky to escape with their own lives and independence, if that.
Whatever. ]