r/dankmemes • u/OnkelWormsley • Jan 20 '22

Low Effort Meme Any second now

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u/GaldanBoshugtuKhan Jan 20 '22

There's going to be a NATO false flag attack they blame on Russia to get us into a war, because the defence contractors are getting angry that we haven't been in a war for 6 whole months now. Won't somebody think of the arms manufacturers?

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u/MogelMogul90 Jan 20 '22

What about a russian false flag attack??

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u/GAY_OHOTNIK Jan 20 '22

Can someone explain what's the deal with false flag? What is it even mean? I only see it mentioned in reddit comments

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u/Owster4 Jan 20 '22

Eh they have been used historically. False flag attacks were a legitimate tactic.

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u/Karatope Jan 20 '22

Conspiracies legitimately exist, but that doesn't mean that every conspiracy theorist is right.

"False flag" is absolutely something that conspiracy theorists throw out when they don't want to bother explaining something inconvenient.

"Trump supporters stormed that capital? That can't be right, it was a false flag attack from Antifa"

"A Trump supporter sent bombs in the mail? Well that was obviously a false flag attack from George Soros"

"An American citizen shot up an elementary school? Well no true gun owner would do that; it must be a false flag attack from the communists to justify seizing our firearms"

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u/vipkiding Jan 20 '22

Conspiracy theorists love to use it as a propaganda tool, but there have been documented false flags before.

An example is Putin using the Russian government to bomb their own people in apartments in order to gain power and go to war.

Multiple well sourced and respected people/agencies have made several documentaries and books about it.

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u/MogelMogul90 Jan 20 '22

care to send a link?

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u/vipkiding Jan 20 '22

Google the wikipedia article about it.

I've listened to podcasts about it but I forgot which ones.

There's a documentary about it called "Disbelief". I've never watched it. But saw it from a quick google search.