• uralsolo [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    1 year ago

    To add to what others are saying, claiming that the enemy army is training their soldiers to use r*pe I think entered the zeitgeist as an accusation against Gaddafi - meanwhile the only people that I’m aware of provably using that intentionally as a terror tactic are South American fascists.

    • KarlBarqs [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      1 year ago

      IIRC it gets deployed against every ontologically evil designated enemy. I know it was deployed against Iraqis during the first Gulf War, with Hillary Clinton claiming Saddam was issuing his troops with Viagra specifically so they could [redacted] more. This is me misremembering, see replies.

      • BelieveRevolt [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Hillary Clinton claiming Saddam was issuing his troops with Viagra specifically so they could [redacted] more

        Wasn’t that Gaddafi? The timeline doesn’t match, since Viagra wasn’t even on the market until the late 90s (hard to forget the time hack Viagra jokes were suddenly everywhere). Also, why would Hillary have said anything? H.W. Bush was president then.