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Compare and Contrast (Original Post) Scuba Aug 2013 OP
Turning one half of Americans against the other half has effectively protected those HereSince1628 Aug 2013 #1

HereSince1628

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1. Turning one half of Americans against the other half has effectively protected those
Mon Aug 5, 2013, 08:45 AM
Aug 2013

Americans who are greedy pirates for a very very long time.

It turns out that in practice, you can get half of Americans to voluntarily hate the other half with surprisingly little investment. As shown above, you can even get them to buy into it. Literally, buy into it to promote buying into it (see "buy more ammo&quot

Recently, as it turns out, you just need to appeal to jingoism and bellicose chauvinism under the cover of proper politics aimed at punishing mythically lazier Americans.

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