Post #4172504

2026-07-28 20:04 UTC

@briankrebs@infosec.exchange I'm old enough to remember when the Right was claiming that FEMA was planning on rounding people up. It's always projection…

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@DaveMWilburn@infosec.exchange 2026-07-28 20:19

@SteveBellovin@infosec.exchange @briankrebs@infosec.exchange Speaking of projection, I believe that particular FEMA conspiracy theory also included rounding people up into concentration camps hosted in abandoned Walmart facilities... Remember this from Trump's first term? https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/14/us/family-separation-migrant-children-detention.html I also vaguely recall variants of this conspiracy theory including establishing false pretexts for military occupation of the US. And here we are, with US military occupation of multiple American cities under false pretexts.

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@ricci@discuss.systems 2026-07-28 20:07

@SteveBellovin@infosec.exchange @briankrebs@infosec.exchange It's like part of the right took a look at what another part of the right was screaming about and thought "you know, that's a good idea ..."

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@kusuriya@masto.hackers.town 2026-07-28 20:25

@SteveBellovin@infosec.exchange @briankrebs@infosec.exchange The best phrase I've heard for this is "Every accusation is a confession"

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