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More transparent manipulative BS from "conservatives"

As usual, Evslin and others get it so wrong, that it's hard to believe it could "just" be a mistake - rather than a cynical attempt at manipulation. Which there's ample evidence of.

In a VTDigger "commentary", he trots out the same tired grade-school bully songbook of "I know you are, but what am I?" that we see most "conservatives" singing from lately; here's the playbook:

• Pick something that liberals say
• twist it into a falsehood; sometimes beyond recognition
• and abuse that to attack liberals.

The tone of delivery varies between "aren't I oh so reasonable" (in a mainstream setting), to full-bore "death to the infidels!" (when stirring up "the base").

Then:

• It gets uncritically picked up by other "conservatives"
• thoughtlessly amplified
• and _that_ is used as justification for more and more

At absolute best, it's BS. But we've moved well beyond that.

And it's increasing the discord and chaos which many of these "conservatives" then exploit - to grab more power / money.

BTW: Notice how _much_ of it there is lately? Yep; that's another tactic which "conservatives" have gleefully adopted from - wait for it - the likes of Putin ("Firehose of falsehood"). Or as Bannon said, "flood the zone with shit".

Politics

Next time someone attempts to dismiss something as "just politics", reacquaint yourself what that word actually means:

"activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations between individuals, such as the distribution of resources..."

- Politics (Wikipedia)

So it's human relations, when we come into contact with each other.

Now consider how likely it is, that this attempt to dismiss, is cynical - at best.