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ICE promises bystanders who challenged Charlottesville raid will be prosecuted
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Projection is a HUGE tool the Right has been using for a while.
Millenia, even.
Projection is a tell, not a tool.
I get what you mean but they're using it to manipulate people
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?
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.
Fine, call it lying then.
It's a specific type of lying. Calling a thing by its name is fundamental to generating broad understanding.
An anonymous, wanna-be brownshirt coward ICE spokesman, at that.
Sounds like someone that didn’t get their job in the current administration. Hence why they’re refusing to be named.
And won’t even spew their bullshit with their name attached to it. Cowards.