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The Five Rules of Propaganda

1. The rule of simplification - reducing all data to a simple confrontation between 'Good and Bad', 'Friend and Foe'.

2. The rule of disfiguration - discrediting the opposition by crude smears and parodies.

3. The rule of transfusion - manipulating the consensus values of the target audience for one's own ends.

4. The rule of unanimity - presenting one's viewpoint as if it were unanimous opinion of all right-thinking people: draining the doubting individual into agreement by the appeal of star-performers, by social pressure , and by 'psychological contagion'.

5. The rule of orchestration - endlessly repeating the same messages in different variations and combinations.

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The vaccine is "safe and effective". Just trust "The Science". "Do your part!" "Be a good person who cares about others." "Be responsible"! The unvaccinated are killing people. The unvaccinated are anti-science. The unvaccinated are highly contagious. Don't invite the unvaccinated into your home. The unvaccinated are selfish. The unvaccinated are ignorant. The unvaccinated are uneducated. Just Trust "The Experts." Sadly, I could go on. How people didn't recognize this as evil propaganda, I'll never know.

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In my case, the unvaccinated is a retired cyclotron physicist.

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Honestly I didn’t even question the Covid vaccine when it first came out. I was just SO grateful that it would (I thought) allow life to go back to normal and that I wouldn’t be forced to wear a mask anymore. We all know how that turned out.

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Yeah, I totally get it. I didn't question it at first either, but wasn't in a hurry to get it. A friend sent me an article by Dr. Judy Mikovits who warned against people with inflammatory conditions from receiving the vaccine. Being someone who struggles with Lyme Disease, I decided to abstain.

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Same here. And I spent 6 months in a wheel chair, and took 4 years to get back to normal-ish.

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I'm so sorry, Karl. As someone who still struggles with chronic Lyme Disease and had a very hard time walking for awhile, I'm very sorry for all the suffering you've had to endure. I hope you continue to make good progress in your recovery.

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At this point I will be happy if I don’t get some crazy cancer.

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I hope you continue to progress in your recovery and are protected from any additional illness.

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‘If you like your doctor you can keep your doctor’ one of the most egregious oldest canards

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Sounds about right… I imagine there are many other tactics, as well. The question then becomes, how will they capitalize on this ‘sentence'? I assure you, they will. Otherwise, they would not have fought so hard to get it. I believe much is happening that we do not see or understand.

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War in the shadows.

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And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him.

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Indeed.

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That is horrific… NO ONE should go through all that. This has all been ABSOLUTELY CRAZY

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Alinsky's Rukes for Radicals comes to mind. You know, that dog-eared book on the shelves of the WEFfers, globalists, demon-carrying elitists being rapidly revealed. Dangerous times aa the snakes recoil in dark corners worldwide...

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Welcome to current media in both political spectrums... its a truly dreadful place today

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