Free speech doesn’t count for speech we disagree with.

  • pickman_model@sh.itjust.works
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    8 days ago

    Something tells me that’s part of the strategy. An escalation of violence would work as an excuse for more repression, opening the opportunity to expand on the list of “enemies”, then add more violence to the mix, rinse and repeat.

    • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world
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      8 days ago

      It is a well documented step in the fascism playbook. Instigate or manufacture a crisis — one that looks like an attack — and use it as justification for the use of violence to seize total, irrevocable power.