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I'll refer to a frequent theme from me; dehumanization of "the enemy." When the problem is the warmongers within a government, but the enemy becomes the people governed by it. A balm for the conscience when you seek to kill them all. They are [dehumanizing slur goes here].

The victim/oppressor thing has become so extreme that it is becoming indistinguishable from insanity.

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