Well , what are you waiting for ? Spill it out ! <| sep |> I would like to know where does the buried gun Dolores digs up come from . <| sep |> He plays genji complained about widows grapple , soldiers rocket jump , and lucios wall riding . And said that genjis ledge boost is not an actual glitch . He ' s probably 12 . Give him a break p <| sep |> Battlestar was torture toward the end <| sep |> equips Shield of Balduran <| sep |> Guilt by AssociationAll that is necessary to destroy a person ' s character publicly is to take that person and overtly or covertly associate them to something the masses will reject . Never mind if it is true or not , simply to question it or make the association is sufficient . One example that comes to mind is a very clever twist I saw used by a famous newspaper . At the time , a political leader , greatly disliked by the editors of a newspaper , was portrayed in a very interesting way . They put an article and his photo strategically in very close proximity to a picture of a circus clown that was part of some other story . I thought to myself , Now that tactic wins the prize ! It was very subtle and very subconscious in approach . The ultimate message was , This person is a clown , therefore laugh at him and consider him noncredible like you would with a clown . Another very typical way of using this same tactic is to connect , even if it is through intricate stratagem , the person to some lawbreaking , shady , person , organization , or action . Even if it is not true , it will leave a dark cloud of doubt in the mind of the person receiving the information . That is why slander is so effective in destroying enemies . The media will never come out and admit that they do this . They are accountable to no one , much like some sort of immaculate and narcissistic god . Just a Little PoisonThe next way the media tries to manipulate minds is through , what is called , the verisimilitude . Now that is a real mouthful . It means that something is very similar to something else . In this case , it is mixing a little poison or a lie with the truth . It is possible to ingest into your body gallons of healthy food . If you simply mix a small amount of extremely powerful poison with it , you would be dead soon . If we graduate the amount of poison into smaller dosages we can do the same over time , at a much slower rate but getting the same results your demise . All the media has to do , in order to destroy a person , is to slowly administer lies poison about a person mixed in with good things . Eventually , they destroy their enemy and they come out looking like choir boys clean and glistening . Make it FunnyI ' ve already mentioned how a political leader was made to look like a clown . I remember an influential leader characterized by the media as a bafoon , idiot , and dumb person . I can still see the political cartoons drawn of him making him look like some human monkey creature . Typically , monkeys are funny and into mischief . That message stuck . Along these lines , photos that show the bad side of a person , and everyone has them , are used to portray enemies as stupid andor psychotic fools . You can sometimes see this approach when a publication deliberately uses a photo of a person looking crosseyed or bizarre . The editors choose photos that make the person look their worst . In contrast , when their favorite persons are put on the same page , they are shown in a hero ' s stance , making them look their best . Coincidental ? Absolutely not ! Making SandwichesA great technique to help build selfesteem in people , while correcting them , is called the sandwich technique . This approach is amazing because it uses positive reinforcement of the individual before and after you have shared a difficult area they need to change in . This assures to them that you still like them and that you respect them . It makes your message easy to accept with them . When you take the same technique and switch it around , placing something positive inbetween two negative pieces of information , it becomes quite destructive . In the media , you can come out looking objective and with a pass if you use this technique while still destroying your enemy . It is one of the most commonly used approaches by the media , in article after article pertaining to persons they dislike . Notice this All you really need to hurt your opponent is to do a news piece on them . You start and close the report with negativity and doubt . This leaves a black cloud over their character . You get a free pass and you still got to be very nasty . This is like a school bully brat that gets away with murder and yet looks good . Stacking the ExpertsHave you ever noticed on TV a panel of intellectuals , journalists , etc . are chosen carefully where it is in disproportion but still looks balanced ? Sometimes it is outrageously blatant and sometimes it is covert . Let ' s say we dislike a position but we cannot say so for fear of looking bigoted . We can handpick the majority of our experts that will agree with us . Then we bring only one person that represents the side we dislike . We unload the pitbull dogs on that person , all the while we look balanced . Ridicule and labelingI am often amused at the interesting adjectives used by a proponent of one side against the other . We hear words like racist , Nazi , ? phobe , pinhead , antiquated , irrelevant , killer , and more . By applying these labels on that person , what happens is that you freeze , isolate , and polarize that person . You make them out to look like they are part of a dangerous , scary , and insane fringe . This process is otherwise known in history as character assassination . In this case , it happens in the public forum on full display . Have you ever noticed that if the same is applied to the media , it is considered blasphemy ? Who makes the media accountable ? No one . They are free to destroy anyone they choose . That is why they secretly fear the internet . The tables can be turned on them by some little guy behind a screen . Repetition Makes TrueIncessant repetition of a lie registers as truth in the mind of the masses . Mass hysteria can be created by repeatedly reporting the dangers of some microbe infesting humans and taking over the world in tones of panic . Some of the most successful tyrants in history used great emotion and repetition to their advantage . Joseph Goebbels , Adolf Hitler ' s propaganda minister said that if You repeat a lie often enough , it becomes the truth . This brings us to my next point . Make the Devil Look Like God and God Like the DevilHitler himself said , By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda , one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise . In this technique , the attacker makes himself look like a benefactor and savior . He twists the sides . Have you ever wondered why the media narcissistically loves to see themselves as the protectors and keepers of truth ? It almost has religious indoctrination undertones , doesn ' t it ? In classical religious literature we are told that the Devil deceives and disguises himself as an angel of light . I call this , characteristically , the reversing of the poles by making black look like white and viceversa . ConclusionI don ' t claim to have covered all aspects of the art of deceit as used in the media . These are as old as man himself . I simply attempted to provide some of the more obvious typical forms of deceit used to psychologically manipulate the masses . What can we learn from this ? Perhaps the biggest lesson could be that we must not be nave . We must discriminately keep awake and aware . We must be hungry for truth wherever we find it . We must protect it and defend it . We need to be careful to avoid coming to hasty conclusions just because the experts say it . It is , very much , an individual journey . It is a great quest but filled with minefields . Be careful and beware .