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Hermit-The-Prog

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12. Yup. Radicalized for the greed of sociopaths.

Reply to Yeehah (Reply #8)

Sat Dec 12, 2020, 06:40 PM

Dec 2020

The brainwashing was fairly crude back around Nixon's time, but the strong racism was enough to work with. By 2016, Cambridge Analytica and social media allowed for micro-targetting with a multitude of triggering grievances.

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Yup. Radicalized for the greed of sociopaths. Hermit-The-Prog Dec 2020 #12

BINGO... pbmus Dec 2020 #13

This message was self-deleted by its author Freelancer Dec 2020 #9

They let the riff raff in. Tea Party, whacko evangelicals, et al. nt Progressive Jones Dec 2020 #10