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So, you're just saying the article isn't persuasive to normies?

I'm OK with that sentiment of yours, but I'm also OK with the article itself and the direction it implies this administration is going.

Normies don't persuade easy, that's why they're normies. Trump has worked out how to persuade them: by lying hyperbolically and providing the 'circus' of the bread and circus method. But it's a dark circus, and its involuntary audience are only those already lost to Trump.



> Normies don't persuade easy, that's why they're normies

That's where I disagree with you. Normies persuade very easily. Just give them a better life. Tell them you'll make their life materially better and they'll be persuaded to support it.

See those tents on the street? I'll get rid of them.

Don't like to step over needles? I'll clean it up.

Are you annoyed by having stores put shampoo behind lock and key? I'll start arresting and prosecuting the <1% of people stealing.


Or you know, lie that you'll give them a better life. Take control of all branches of government and keep lying. Works fine in Russia.




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