Two, we patiently prime the rest of them with a set of bloody-minded dogmas.
One that says anyone who says anything even vaguely crypto-fascist - even if it only looks that way if you squint at just right - is definitely a Nazi and planning to enslave women and kill gay people. Then another one that says anyone that sounds even vaguely like a Nazi must be mercilessly purged, and never spoken to again. Then another one that says anyone who talks to people who might be Nazis is a Nazi.
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#ThoughtExperiment
Once these two sets of ideas take hold, the activists will start spreading them through their own networks. Conflict with people holding the other set will only encourage them to spread the set they're holding with more urgency.
All the purging will undercut their ability to organise these mass protests, as will the general climate of fear and distrust created by all the spreading of our FUD, and the wedges it will drive between allies, and eventually even friends.
(4/4)
#ThoughtExperiment
Once these two sets of ideas take hold, the activists will start spreading them through their own networks. Conflict with people holding the other set will only encourage them to spread the set they're holding with more urgency.
All the purging will undercut their ability to organise these mass protests, as will the general climate of fear and distrust created by all the spreading of our FUD, and the wedges it will drive between allies, and eventually even friends.
(4/?)
