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The bully squeals, as one of his past victims does to him what he has done to dozens of others.

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Jul 17, 2018

Can we stop using "meddling" now, please? "They were tinkering with America's electoral system. Tampering a bit. Fiddling with it." No. They attacked it. As successfully as Pearl Harbor, in their way, though it was a very different sort of operation.

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OMG. This is one of my favorite writers, and probably one of the greatest writers alive. One of the great mysteries of the last decade or so has been how so many highly intelligent, creative individuals who frequently write stories about how easy it is to manipulate people &

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frequently set plots in worlds where people are being progandized w/obvious lies & mainstream opinion is completely wrong, are so easily manipulated and propagandized. It's kinda disturbing.

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Yeah, well, none of that stuff actually immunizes you to being like that yourself, any more than being a counselor makes you good at relationships... (Yes, it is disturbing.)

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You're clearly right, tho I actually would *think* it would make you more likely to be aware of such IRL as well as fiction. Clearly not. :-(

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Our brains are depressingly specialized in some ways. Statisticians are seldom good at applied statistics outside of statistics problems, for example. Also: aridgetoofar.com/documents/FSI% Not sure if this one study has been replicated, but issues like these are extremely common.

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