• Tiger666@lemmy.ca
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            6 months ago

            How do you use projection as a way to manipulate? Sure, you can lie to people, and they won’t know you are projecting, but that is called lying.

            So, how does one use projection as a manipulation tool?

            • skulblaka@sh.itjust.works
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              6 months ago
              • Conservatives are doing [X]

              • They pre-emptively go on TV and loudly blame democrats for [X] before it becomes a major story

              • When it comes to light that [X] is in fact happening the public is already primed to blame their opponents for it

              It’s the sort of thing a 5 year old might do to try and blame the cat for a broken cookie jar, it’s baby’s first con, it’s stupendously obvious what’s going on, but, here we are.

              • Prehensile_cloaca @lemm.ee
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                6 months ago

                It’s a specific type of lying. Calling a thing by its name is fundamental to generating broad understanding.

    • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      Sounds like someone that didn’t get their job in the current administration. Hence why they’re refusing to be named.