Top 3 ways TPTB discredit troublemakers.

• Call you a sexual deviant. No one likes a sex offender and what better way to wipe away the validity of your message than to smear you with allegations of a sexual nature.
• Question your mental health. Well, so and so cant be a worthy witness because so and so is crazy. I wonder how many “enemies” of the state suffered unnecessary lobotomies.
• Call you a traitor. Naturally, you are not to be believed if you aren’t a card carrying “patriot” or some such nonsense. You are either with us, or against us.



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