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[-] Quilotoa@lemmy.ca 82 points 1 month ago

Rule 1. When you're having political problems at home, create a foreign enemy to distract the population.

[-] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 23 points 1 month ago

Also, a foreign threat tends to gather the citizens together. Our post-9/11 unity allowed them to create the Homeland Security Gestapo.

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 month ago
[-] gnuhaut@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago

Also a common liberal tactic.

[-] luce@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 month ago

who says the enemy has to be foreign?

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