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Tell me more about the 2018 Senate race in Missouri please.

I’m dying to know which side you support and who you’ve tried to sway an opinion of and how you think it made any statistically significant difference.

I would say, being Missouri is full of proudly ignorant untraveled uneducated uncouth empty headed troglodytes, I don’t think that’s a fair bullet point no matter which candidate you supported or which side you tried to dissuade.

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Interested in your thoughts on "The Führer Has a Secret Weapon" here:

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OK, I can see this is going to be a dialog.

FREE WILL

If belief or non-belief in free will changes outcomes - there has to be free will.

In terms of "disinformation" ripping away the mental facade of free will, I can agree as far as this: the purpose of "disinformation" is creating instability in the target's mind. The connection between free will and flat Earth believers is something that will need explaining.

I spoke recently with Dr. Alexandra Stein about undoing social engineering in terms of escaping a cult. She is an international leader on the topic and told me about cognitive techniques called pre-suasion developed to inoculate our minds against indoctrination and toxic persuasion.

While the will can be swayed, or even co-opted, that is very far from "there is no free will." And certainly, the influenced "will" is not permanent.

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OK, I can see this is going to be a dialog.

FREE WILL

If belief or non-belief in free will changes outcomes - there has to be free will.

In terms of "disinformation" ripping away the mental facade of free will, I can agree as far as this: the purpose of "disinformation" is creating instability in the target's mind. The connection between free will and flat Earth believers is something that will need explaining.

I spoke recently with Dr. Alexandra Stein about undoing social engineering in terms of escaping a cult. She is an international leader on the topic and told me about cognitive techniques called pre-suasion developed to inoculate our minds against indoctrination and toxic persuasion.

While the will can be swayed, or even co-opted, that is very far from "there is no free will." And certainly, the influenced "will" is not permanent.

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