counterculturalists of all stripes tend to misidentify this as a feature of dissent, not as a feature of preference falsification. dissent against a position actually held tends to strengthen it, often even when it is weakly held, if the dissenter is disagreeable
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the prince, then, should always employ shills to dissent against those positions which serve him that the people best agree with. this requires an absence of wishful thinking about what the people believe, by which we may distinguish the prince from an ordinary narcissist
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By 'widespread preference falsification', are you referring to sockpuppet accounts/bots, or..?
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no, i mean where people have to pretend they just love the king to pieces or they'll get executed, or have to pretend they love wokeness or they'll get ostracized
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