There is something deeply disingenuous about this. Playing mock martyr to raise a mook army of newly enraged rubes reveling in faux-red-pill “enlightenment”. Among other things this is where conspiracy theory epistemology starts.
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Basically, in this environment, anyone who attempts to shape opinions on a large mass-media scale, pwning millions of minds to coerce hundreds of millions of minds into ideological submission, is basically a bad person. It’s as clear a tell as pouring gasoline into a fire.
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When you avoid the temptation to traffic in the Epistemic Status: Rube Revelation idea economy, you will find your audience hitting a low ceiling. Signal-siding in a noisy environment is like trying to have a conversation in a loud party with blaring music and drunken brawls.
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Only the 5 people next to you and straining to understand you above the noise are signalsiding whatever you are saying. If the whole room hears you above the noise, music, and brawling, almost certainly you yelled something loud, stupid, and dangerous. Like “Fire!”
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