alt Hacker NewsWhy has this analogy been repeated so much lately? Did someone famous use it or something?
Edit: just to clarify, I'm not denying it's appropriate; it just seems remarkable to me that it's being used so often lately.
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lm28469 • yesterday at 3:38 PM
It's a 100+ years old metaphor widely used at virtually any point in time since then to describe all kind of situations
sowbug • yesterday at 4:06 PM
Have fun seeing "Baader-Meinhof phenomenon" everywhere.
relaxing • yesterday at 4:09 PM
Baader-Meinhof effect.
> Why has this analogy been repeated so much lately?
Probably because a country that was famous for trying to spread their idea of "freedom" all across the world, seemingly can't notice themselves that the country is rapidly declining into full on authoritarian dictatorship, with a very skewed perspective of "freedom", and the people who are opposing it, aren't rioting (yet at least).
The judicial arm of the government aren't even enforcing the laws of the country anymore! Not sure how, but it'll get worse before it gets better. Quite literally a fitting analogy in this case.