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freshwest

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15. Suspect fact-free Robert regards anything that takes more time to repeat mindlessly is overthinking.
Sun May 3, 2015, 12:03 AM
May 2015

Last edited Sun May 3, 2015, 01:46 AM - Edit history (1)

People walk around in a dream state and raise hell when you try to wake them to think about the words coming out of their mouths. Which are usually not their own thoughts, but what was fed them. Or in this case, typed online.

It makes them feel clever to say what they have heard, even though they don't the people that fed it to them and why. They imagine teveryone agrees with them on their not-so-original idea and believe they have also been great!

Repetition is more powerful to the human mind than facts or reason. When they hear it enough times, it is TheTruth©! If you don't agree with each verse of the song, they will beat you up, one way or the other.

And this is why unlimited money for the propaganda fed daily, and focuses on politics as a way to make even more money for the owners of media, small and large, since brainwashing gets the votes to turn the government over to them. It's an investment that pays like nothing else.

So it won't end, and it's the worst threat imaginable. Jefferson and others never anticipated the modern media empires, they saw print, which does not give the full psychological effect of our current media. There is no method of manipulation they will not use.

That's a cheap shot. [View all] sheshe2 May 2015 OP
k&r... spanone May 2015 #1
K & R nt okaawhatever May 2015 #2
Immasmartypants gets it right again. Thanks, sheshe. n/t freshwest May 2015 #3
:) sheshe2 May 2015 #14
SmartyPants taking on Nobel-prize winning Stiglitz? SMC22307 May 2015 #4
So? Doesn't mean he's right as she so proficently pointed out. Cha May 2015 #7
I don't get the Stiglitz love either, considering his World Bank affiliation,and apparent dislike of Hoyt May 2015 #5
He makes up shit.. that's very popular in certain sections. Cha May 2015 #8
Ah. He certainly didn't impress me on Maher Friday. Hoyt May 2015 #12
You take care, Hoyt. :) Cha May 2015 #17
Oh my.... sheshe2 May 2015 #13
President Obama has been a one man Economy booster for the profiteers on the left and the right.. Cha May 2015 #18
I don't get it either Hoyt. sheshe2 May 2015 #19
"P.S. I forgot one other way Stiglitz is wrong. If President Obama is so "cognitively captured" by Cha May 2015 #6
Hey Cha!!!!! sheshe2 May 2015 #9
What a liar, this Stiglitz is, she.. Cha May 2015 #16
I remember that moment with that putz alito. "Simply not true." That's what he mouthed from calimary May 2015 #25
Nice article, and I loved these gems in the comments: Jamaal510 May 2015 #10
Boom! sheshe2 May 2015 #11
Suspect fact-free Robert regards anything that takes more time to repeat mindlessly is overthinking. freshwest May 2015 #15
Thank you for those responses, Jamaal. "RobertMay" is perfect example of Cha May 2015 #20
I wouldn't want to be on the wrong side of Churchlady. Tarheel_Dem May 2015 #22
Robert is the kind of guy the mainstream media loves, he is a member of their target audience. Major Hogwash May 2015 #24
US corpmedia totally really likes "thinkers" like Robert.. so do the rw..but, I'm repeating myself. Cha May 2015 #30
I read the guest list and decided to give Maher a pass last night. I obviousy made the right choice. Tarheel_Dem May 2015 #21
I love you Tarheel~ sheshe2 May 2015 #23
Just desserts. ucrdem May 2015 #26
HAHA.. some are calling this a "liar thread".. which is actually appropriate since Stiglitz is the Cha May 2015 #27
You got that right Cha!!!!!!!!!!!!!! sheshe2 May 2015 #28
Right.. Cha May 2015 #29
Stiglizt is "guilty" of being a liar..but, he knows he has a captive audience that ignores the facts Cha May 2015 #31
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