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Cyph3rp9nk | 3 months ago (raw) | export | reply | flag +7 
 This is happening in most European countries, my only question is why.

I don't quite understand this self-destructive plan.
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Jordan | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Could be they are priming inhabitants for the need to be surveiled and controlled. Create the priblem; provide the solution
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Autodidact | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Yeah 100% covid playbook

Create a problem
Invoke fear
No hope
Government roles in with their solution

“For Safety”

If protestors spoke to each other, they’d quickly realise they all have the same concerns and weren’t actually enemies.
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48fc7f4c | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 It’s to intimidate the sheeple, so the sheeple does not give resistance/rebel against the regime 

Freedom is paid for in blood, by killing government goons
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vlada | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 You're not meant to understand
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Celata | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Apparently the guy on the right did get 2 years prison suspended for 2 years as he was a minor at the time of the offence (as well as his community service).

Still, the same sentence for multiple child rape and distributing stickers hardly looks like justice.
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Jordan | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Alternative idea: European leaders believe their populations need motivation to reengage in a war w/the Middle East.  (I think that would have been a very hard sell to go back.)  Get them good and pissed off at these refugees, and they'll sign up to take the war abroad.  Keep that war machine running and boost GDP.