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    Virtually this exact same atrocity propaganda trope was being used all the way back in the 17th century by the English against the Irish, as you can see in this thread on the history of atrocity propaganda. And remember the Nayirah testimony in the early 90s?

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        Often the kinds of atrocities that people fabricate about their enemies are the very things they themselves do or fantasize about doing…

        It takes a special kind of disturbed mind to come up with some of the shit that the pro-Israel crowd accuses Palestinians of doing, or the pro-Ukraine crowd accusing Russians… a normal, mentally healthy person does not spend as much time as these people do imagining these sorts of disturbing, grotesque things.