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by throwaway77384 1082 days ago
Yup, fictitious enemies are always needed to keep the machine running. Terrorists, gays, foreigners, trans people, drugs.

So long as people think that these are the problems in society (and not, say, billionaires) the government can keep creating ineffective policies to "fix" these problems (even though they haven't for god knows how many hundreds of years) and people lap it up.

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You should have added billionaires to your list then.