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Ava | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 It was an easy psyop to implant, just keep saying "witch hunt" and "fake news" until people believe it.
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mattybs | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 So far it's been working.
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Ava | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 It's time tested.

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.” - Adolf Hitler - Mein Kampf
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Ava | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +5 
 "The OSS psychological profile of Hitler described his use of the big lie:

His primary rules were: never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it."
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The Bird | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 His? You could say this has been an overwhelming US policy since the end of the WWII at the offset of the Cold War. This is the staple of American politics IMO
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c3c033dd | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 They made the rules, he simply played their game better than them. 

Think of politics like a relationship, some are good, some are bad, and there will definitely be a breakup in the end. The question is if it's a respectful breakup or is the losing party going to lose control, retaliate, and become violent? 

For years we watched the uniparty within the Democrat/Republican coalition had the people candidates that had the same end goal. 

Trump came along and fucked them all up. It was obvious by Hillary's reaction that the uniparty thought they had won. 

He's the GHOST!
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c3c033dd | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 It's obviously time tested. How the hell do you think we knew what they (Deep State) was going to do. 

You act as if you haven't done decades of research on Trump as if you just showed up halfway in the fight and when Trump kicks them in the balls you scream foul. 

Trust me, I definitely applaud your healthy skepticism to politics and the government but at least understand it enough to know when things are also going right other than just smart enough to think something isn't going well. Reminds me of engineers out of college with no field experience and only smart enough to talk about it. Some of us actually have personal experiences. 

I'm trying to not dox myself by hand feeding you my personal experiences so you should at least understand that.