Using “Stasi” Tactics Against Rep. Matt Gaetz – IOTW Report

Using “Stasi” Tactics Against Rep. Matt Gaetz

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Is Gaetz guilty of a crime? Right now, nobody has produced any evidence of one. On the other hand, there is ample evidence the story is more complicated than the Times originally reported. It’s also possible that, like with the Russian collusion hoax, these spectacular allegations are just an excuse for an all-purpose fishing expedition, which could be used to justify a politically-motivated prosecution for “lying to federal investigators.”

But another possibility exists: The attack against Gaetz is an act of “Zersetzung,” a tactic for crushing dissent invented by the East German Stasi secret police.

Twitter user Heywood Floyd recently described the meaning of “Zersetzung,” variously translated as “disintegration” or “decomposition” in a wildly popular twitter thread. He compares the East German Stasi tactic with modern-day cancel culture. More

A bit of clever wording in this Court House News headline makes the point Here

16 Comments on Using “Stasi” Tactics Against Rep. Matt Gaetz

  1. Liz Cheney’s idea. Indict her. No evidence needed.
    That’s how it works, right?

    Not a fan of defending politicians, and Gaetz could very well have been a whore back in the day, but a criminally stupid one? I don’t think so.

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  2. might get thune or mcconnell or mccarthy grasping their pearls and looking for the fainting couch, but these fake accusations roll off my thickened and hardened skin. The more the stazi distributes the lies of conservatives but sweep under rugs the pedophilia of their own the more it energizes against them.

    Sundays coming. Rejoice ! ! !

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  3. Boy, those who own our asses in Washington/Wallstreet and abroad just couldn’t wait to get back into the masturbation of things all despotic towards it’s conditioned masses of acceptance of all thing corrupt or else..

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