• DontTreadOnBigfoot@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    They’re trying to make you associate these people with the known phrase of “homegrown terrorist” without actually accusing them of terrorism.

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      10 days ago

      And as the innocent man who is either still in that horrific prison or dead proves, they’ll apply the label to anyone they please and it will work with their base.

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        9 days ago

        That’s how they always do it.

        It’s usually terrorism, sometimes treason. But there is always an unproven accusation of some heinous crime, which is why most people will just accept it, because “it only affects the criminals”. And it is also how they motivate their henchmen to do the dirty work.

        Communists and Jews in Nazi-Germany were accused of causing millions of Germans to die in WW1 and of causing poverty in the depression through exploitation. And this is why the Nazi henchmen worked diligently to get rid of the Jews, because they had lost family members in WW1 and lived through Depression poverty and they wanted to help their country become great again by getting rid of all the undesirables.