Remember in the 1930's - 1940's when a bunch of conspiracy theorists were saying the Reichstag Fire was a false flag and Hitler was using it to take total authoritarian power? Sadly, even then 90% of the people were sheep and believed whatever government told them

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Because?: we want to develop fallacies with historical events, use false equivalence arguments? You've also not noted what you compare the Reichtag Fire with.

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It looks like really clumsy deradicalizing propaganda to me.