• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    It’s self-perpetuating. Terrorism never stops happening somewhere in the world, so the government can always argue that they need to keep their tools that they say fights terrorism.

    And I won’t be at all surprised if they try to increase their power exponentially now that Israeli genocide has likely created plenty of people willing to get revenge on both Israel and the U.S.

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      7 months ago

      Yeah, trying to fight terrorism with state terrorism only exacerbates the problem and I don’t think it’s too tinfoil hatty to speculate that there’s a lot of powerful people in both the US, Israel and elsewhere who not only know that but RELY on it to maintain and increase their own power and wealth.

      Just like how Hamas and other terrorist organizations become more influential and thus more powerful the more people suffer.