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[bediger4000]

Is The Wall just like the "caravans" of 2016, 2018 and the Fentanyl panic of 2024?

[BoiledCabbage → bediger4000]

Add long as certain groups keep falling for it we'll keep seeing them.

[bigfatkitten → bediger4000]

And the panic over Communism in the 1950s.

[StillBored → bigfatkitten]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satanic_panic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_queen

Once you get a few of them, the search engines will start pointing out a long list of other moral/etc panics.

https://www.ourhistory.org.uk/ten-times-america-created-a-mo...

Overwhelmingly, it does seem to be the same group of people fomenting these.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_panic