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Interview with Dan Friesen from Knowledge Fight on Alex Jones, the Sandy Hook Trial, and conspiracy ecosystems

Decoding the Gurus

CHAPTER

The Parallel Evolution of the Sm Rhetoric Techniques

i see a lot of, like, i don't know, i don' think it's intentional borrowing. So idone, you know, they're making notes on emfewards, whatever. It's just that they have like a parallel evolution of the sm rhetorical techniques. When you frame things that are potentially negative for you as false flags, all youre doing is peremptorily justifying other people doing negative things. I think it's really useful to people who engage in what you might call starcastic terrorism. It's really helpful when you whip up a kind of an extremist crowd. Alexander: You hoped that that kind of thing would stay cloistered in

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