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applegrove

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10. I guess to expand on what you said it is about pressure points you put on the public. Pressure

Reply to orthoclad (Reply #7)

Tue Jul 7, 2026, 11:01 PM

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points that feel like fear or anger or love when it is all manipulation meant to move the public in a certain direction or another: fear bombing or hate bombing or love bombing. The pressure point may be performative from the point of view of the person initiating the emotions/reactions, a psychopath of one type or another, but it sure feels real. I should know better than to forget the victims of such action. I've had to live with it since I was 30.

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I guess to expand on what you said it is about pressure points you put on the public. Pressure applegrove Tuesday #10

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