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johnnyrocket

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3. Actually, there's a lot of very pertinent info on brainwashing in general. Very enlightening.

Reply to emulatorloo (Reply #2)

Sun May 28, 2017, 04:43 PM

May 2017

I never thought much about it, I guess I'm not personally susceptible to it. But brainwashing is a real phenomenon, and put the social pressure aspect on top of it, I can (almost) understand where a Trump voter is coming from.

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