• gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    Tbh I am quite confident that that’s all part of the plan.

    Starving people will resort to extreme measures to provide for their families. This will unquestionably increase crime. Wish.com Goebbels will start bleating about how “crime in blue cities is EXPLODING” (and ignore that pretty much every single thing they’re doing is actively making all of that shit worse).

    This is all by design, and the intention is to create a “dangerous” context that they can use to declare martial law and invoke the insurrection act, and seize power indefinitely.

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      When people get hungry enough, then you can call it riots, because that’s what it will be when people have no other choice