For those who are struggling with this (no pun intended): No, not everything that means "struggle" is a problem. In fact, the Iranian people are involved in a struggle for freedom against the regime. The point is that not everyone who hides behind the word "struggle" is actually struggling, and indeed, Jihadists and Nazis both had in common the weaponization of the term "struggle" to define their movement to wipe out the Jews and assert regional domination. It is an organized, well blueprinted, and familiar tactic. They are not just separate movements, but intersected across many aspects. They share interconnected strategies of operating as wolves by disguising as lambs, and indeed, shared discussions & ideas on how to maximize such a campaign (see: Grand Mufti x Hitler). Both times, swaths of people fell for it. It wasn’t until after the gas chambers and the attempted conquest of Europe for Nazi “lebensraum” (“living room”, i.e. German expansionism) with the intent to secure Aryan supremacy & racial extermination across the region that people finally understood the Nazi movement wasn’t a “collective struggle for freedom,” but a murderous death cult that sought power, domination, and subjugation/extermination of people by race/ethnicity. Despite tracking all the same patterns and disguises, people still cannot see something almost identical—jihad—for what it is. It really is an unfortunate reflection of the zeitgeist that this had to be explained, and it is deeply regrettable that we don’t have sufficiently robust education systems to teach people to think one layer beyond what is at face value to even understand this point. https://bird.makeup/@elicalebon/1846213654720737378
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