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TwoFrontHitters t1_ja62j1e wrote

Not so easy to brainwash adults though. These poor kids were stolen and trafficked.

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illy-chan t1_ja6a16p wrote

On the other hand, after knowing freezing and starvation, I bet a lot of people would do much to avoid that again.

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justhereforsee t1_ja6jph9 wrote

Donald trump recently brainwashed millions.

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Gaskii t1_ja6mju0 wrote

They were already following the music, I think he just picked up the flute

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gozba t1_ja719cg wrote

A very small flute?

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LordOfThePinkyRings t1_ja7bqa7 wrote

No, people are saying it’s the best flute, the greatest construction, and played with the most skill ever seen on earth. People come up to me all the time with tears in their eyes, asking if I’ve heard this amazing flute.

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Intelligent-Parsley7 t1_ja7ctm7 wrote

Then he plays that flute in a Mickey D’s. And Hannity speaks of the bestiest flute playing since Ron Burgandy in Anchorman.

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aynhon t1_jaaf2i5 wrote

"They told me, you know, they said to me, "Here's the pan flute." Folks, I'm telling you, I couldn't believe it. I looked at it, I couldn't believe it. There's the flute; where's the pans? Here's a pan flute with no pans on it! Do I blow it? People, do I rub it? Do I blow it?

So I go and I play the flute, and I tap a finger on it and I blow it and it sounds beautiful. The best, folks. The very best sound. They told me that no one ever played the pan flute like that. Never before, everybody. Special. They called it special. I'm the special pan fluter. What do they say is the sound? Flooting? Not farting! Not farting, folks! That's Slick Willie Dee, am I right? That's Slick Willie Dee farting!!"

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clovisx t1_ja7egoq wrote

He has the lips and hands of a piccolo player

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gozba t1_ja7fej5 wrote

Maybe he could just master a dog whistle

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Mythosaurus t1_ja7lqpf wrote

Exactly, Trump just lived up to decades of conservative propaganda and said the quiet parts out loud.

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stout936 t1_ja6z8mw wrote

Nah. Trump wasn't the problem, he was a symptom of it. The right wing had been going down that road for a long time. Trump and his cronies simply told them what they wanted to hear.

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clovisx t1_ja7hjrc wrote

If you’d told 1990s me that we’d come to a point where the Republican Party and American conservatives were openly schilling for Russia and strongman, pro-authoritarian/proto-fascist leaders like Putin, Orban, Kadyrov, Lukashenko, etc… I wouldn’t have believed you.

I grew up at the end of the Cold War, saw the Berlin Wall come down, and caught the end of the proxy war in Afghanistan. Russia was “the enemy” and the authoritarian, Communist regime they represented was bad. Now we’ve got Putin who wants to be president/dictator for life, suppress rights and freedoms, and hates America. The conservatives, who wouldn’t have been caught dead saying anything good about the USSR, are openly praising his strongman posturing and the iron fist he tries to run his country with.

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Beard_o_Bees t1_ja8fp9a wrote

Right there with you. Solid GenX here.

Lately i'm just fucking speechless at the pro-Russian spew from the GOP.

Like, they've openly said - for fucking decades - that their goal is to destabilize and destroy as much of America as possible. Last I checked, that's still their perhaps largest geo-political aspiration.

Not to mention Putin has been nothing if not consistent in his desire to watch us burn. I sincerely believe that he's capable of 'pushing the button' taking us all out rather than being perceived as a failure on the world stage.

He's fucking dangerous in a way that's too often missed because he doesn't shout and pound tables.

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StuperDan t1_ja6ylie wrote

Lololol. Trump didn't create the market he exploits. You give him wayyyyyyyyyyy too much credit. He'd love your comment.

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justhereforsee t1_ja7kiyg wrote

Just an easy way to show how adults can easily be brainwashed.

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Hopeful_Hamster21 t1_ja6nk9a wrote

I want to downvote this, because I hate how true it is. Take my upvote and gtfo.

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DonnerMcgregor t1_ja6z2ud wrote

Including you for thinking what he did was brainwashing but what every other political does is fine

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Mythosaurus t1_ja7lxsf wrote

Reminder that no other US President or politician has ever whipped up a mob to storm Congress and disrupt the peaceful transition of power.

People that can’t see the dangerous precedents of Trump are… brainwashed.

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DonnerMcgregor t1_ja7yygl wrote

George bush whipped up a mob to invade Iraq, that’s brainwashing

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Squire_II t1_ja8ctxj wrote

> Not so easy to brainwash adults though.

The QAnon movement, among others, shows otherwise. Just show things close to a person's belief and then keep ramping up as they go down the rabbit hole. Jordan Petersen has been a gateway drug to right wing extremism for years (even before he went full mask off).

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