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L. Coyote

(51,129 posts) Tue Jan 18, 2022, 11:38 PM Jan 2022

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'Rage Farming' Is Latest GOP Tactic The Mehdi Hasan Show

What is ‘rage farming’ and how did Mehdi fall for it? Molly Jong-Fast and John Scott-Railton join Mehdi to discuss.

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'Rage Farming' Is Latest GOP Tactic The Mehdi Hasan Show (Original Post) L. Coyote Jan 2022 OP

fearmongering to create a nemesis (some "other") that is responsible for the rubes' woes, Thomas Hurt Jan 2022 #1

Yep. FM123 Jan 2022 #2

Thomas Hurt

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1. fearmongering to create a nemesis (some "other") that is responsible for the rubes' woes,

Reply to L. Coyote (Original post)

Tue Jan 18, 2022, 11:50 PM

Jan 2022

and then convince the rubes they are heroes in a great moral battle to save themselves.

Fascism 101

FM123

(10,053 posts)

2. Yep.

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Wed Jan 19, 2022, 12:14 AM

Jan 2022

They set up booby traps, hoping we fall in and blow up.

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