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Ryan Gardner's avatar

Its so obvious.

Their greatest strength is to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive....and then give it a negative label.

This is tried and true. Has worked throughout history and always will...UNLESS you have absolute freedom of speech.

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Boatswain Mate's avatar

Agreed! The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.

Philip K. Dick

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SF Bay Area's avatar

That’s my wife’s playbook—she’s got being right down to an art. I’m too worn down to slug it out with her anymore; my moral backbone’s taken too many hits.

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Sue Don Nim's avatar

So dump her. Life's too short to live with an unpleasant bitch.

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