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Is critical thinking in America completely dead? Why would you trust a 39-time felon for anything? Even asking him the time of the day is suspicious of getting a made up answer.
Smart observers will realize this saga is a story about the effectiveness of modern media at distorting reality. Americans aren't just magically, uniquely shitty people. We had a coordinated disinformation engine, truly a superweapon, trained on our population for a long, long period of time.
Shit works pretty great, and the world will see more of it.
Edit: strongest bit of evidence is probably just how the target group got their world views completely rewritten. Hard to really document properly, ya kinda just have to witness the dramatic shift firsthand. People got reprogrammed within a single generation. The same folks who raised us on "two wrongs don't make a right" and "treat others how you want to be treated" behave completely unrecognizably today. The disinformation engine is so effective they were tricked into completely rewriting their own internal values.
I blame social media, mainstream media could never have done this by themselves.
It took both, but predated social media by a decade.
And it's about as "broad spectrum" as it gets, going from literal shortwave radio (very active for this weapon), all the way up to the most sophisticated AI we have at the moment I'm writing this,
And every possible communication technology between those two extremes is also used for this purpose.
The crazy part is I think for all of the sophistication, it all just boils down to a numbers game. Reach enough people with enough bullshit enough times and their minds change. It's flat out that simple.
They hate the same people he does, and that camaraderie matters more to them than being robbed and trafficked to South Sudan by mistake.
"mistake"