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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCan I get this off my chest? I really, really, really can't stand false flaggers.
They're jumping on the Syrian chemical attacks now, claiming it was staged. It's showing up on my Facebook page.
I wonder what percentage of the false flag crowd have an agenda versus those who are just plain crazy or pathetically gullible?
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Can I get this off my chest? I really, really, really can't stand false flaggers. (Original Post)
Tommy_Carcetti
Apr 2017
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Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)1. everything is staged.
chelsea0011
(10,115 posts)2. Man, I love that movie.
Initech
(100,068 posts)9. Sometimes I feel like we live in the Truman Show.
displacedtexan
(15,696 posts)11. How will it end?
I've been wanting that button everyone was wearing in that movie!
Initech
(100,068 posts)12. I keep thinking we're going to crash into the wall and discover we've been lied to the whole time.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)3. Likely it's the republican's BFF: russian Spam & Fake News Troll Bot Army
lunatica
(53,410 posts)4. I find them particularly hateful myself.
So I agree with you.
world wide wally
(21,742 posts)5. Sounds like Russian bots to me
stillcool
(32,626 posts)6. when it's a concerted effort..
by many people, it's a strategy. Being set-up is common. I don't know that false flag is any different but the phrase has been way over-played.
womanofthehills
(8,703 posts)7. There are people on that other site - the Russian lovers
claiming the same thing.
HoneyBadger
(2,297 posts)8. There have always been false flags
Gulf of Tonkin being the worst in terms of resulting death
bathroommonkey76
(3,827 posts)10. Russian bots? Alex Jones followers?
Or insane people?
I'd say it's a combination of the three.