Does anyone else think trump could be a puppet of the “regular” American government workers? As if what’s happening now is that trump is getting used as a tool to clean America up so that it will eventually be easier to control. Trump is the bad cop in a good cop bad cop set up and he is just used to take the brunt of the backlash while “real” America is using him as tool to get America to a point it has more power over citizens? By real America I mean FBI or CIA or whatever. It’s like trump is being used the same as we manipulate and use leader of other countries when we want to get more power over them.

  • peteyestee@feddit.orgOP
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    5 months ago

    I don’t disagree agree with most of that… The only difference is I think there’s people above all of them.

    Have you seen the Century of Self documentary about the beginning of using psychology in government and marketing? It’s old and outdated but now things are more advanced. What’s in that documentary sounds true, and I wonder what it’s like in the modern day with algorithms, data mining, and ai.

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      I see no evidence or need for supposed people above, and they most certainly would not be in the now unfavored dept of intelligence. These people are all plenty capable of being this evil on their own unprompted, that’s why they’re in the roles they are. Evil doesn’t necessitate complexity, they feel comfortable enough to show their face because they feel their power is absolute and will not be challenged at this point.