• Tiger666@lemmy.ca
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        4 hours 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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          • 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.