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Did you know Jim Jones once faked an assassination attempt? [View all]
https://www.hopeforlifeonline.com/socialism-and-jim-jones-a-prime-historical-parallel/"6. Jim Jones exaggerated and manufactured enemies and crises (“never let a crisis go to waste”), and then preyed on people’s desperation, gullibility, fear, good-intentions, insecurities, and lack of discernment. He even staged a fake assassination attempt where he pretended to be shot by an assassin (complete with blood-stained shirt riddled by bullet holes), and then faked a miraculous healing from his wounds."
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