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by tithe 700 days ago
I think you're right. That kind of language taps energy to get bases riled up, but it's a dangerous kind of excitement (panic?) that can lead to desperate acts.

It makes my stomach turn that people - and I - can be susceptible to this, and furthermore that it's taken advantage of. Politicians are skilled hackers, too.

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It also, I think, sometimes gives those on the edge of doing bad things, a little push and then they do terrible things like this.