n naval warfare, a false flag operation is a deliberately deceptive maneuver in which a ship engages an enemy vessel while flying the enemy’s flag. This tactic was historically used by pirates to approach unsuspecting merchant ships before seizing them and their cargoes. More recently, the term has been used by right-wing commentators to dismiss everything from 9/11 to mass shootings as liberal false flag operations designed to assert governmental authority and curtail individual rights. Amid such conspiracy theories, widely purveyed on social media, the coronavirus pandemic itself has often been decried as
Brian Wallis False Comfort
Mar 09, 2021
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