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That's probably partly why certain entities try to make it so toxic. People are more controllable when they're rabid and when they're inert.


Also reasonable people check out when people are running around livid because of false information.


> Also reasonable people check out when people are running around livid because of false information.

The comment you are responding to both recognizes that and is telling you that that is a fact that is deliberately being manipulated by and to the advantage of the people promoting false information.

A major part of the goal of extreme political propaganda, nearly as important as mobilizing unreasonable people, is getting reasonable people exhausted with the political system so that they check out.


This seems like you are restating the same thing I said as if it is contradicting it.




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