• Major_Tsiom@fedia.io
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    2 days ago

    That’s possible, but it looks like she was leaning in that direction for awhile. If she was already on the take, she was a really good actress, apparently.

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      It’s the same sell as the rest…

      Compromise on this, and we’ll get you elected and you can do so much!

      It’s not that the people who fall for it are monsters, it’s an incredibly sophisticated manipulation network that’s been running for literal generations.

      Like, she straight up had two agents as handlers, and likely had no idea. Maybe she knew by now, but I doubt she did when they were hired.

      Write them off as individual monsters who were always wrong in the head, and it just gives us a false sense of security. The truth is scarier, and why we need to crack down on foreign interference and pac money in general