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Xamanismo Coletivo

"This is the most important lesson of #scams: that no matter how well-attuned you are to #cons, you can still be #conned. The belief that you are immune to a con actually makes you a mark. It's for that reason that I recount the tales of how I got #scammed – to help other people understand that being sophisticated, alert and even paranoid is no guarantee that you will be #safe."
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pluralistic.netPluralistic: How the world’s leading breach expert got phished (05 Apr 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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@QasimRashid @n1xnx

I believe that the largest contributing factor is the decades long plan to dumb down the population. When you have a population that is undereducated and they don't have the necessary critical skills to discern facts and to analyze what they are being told, they are more easily manipulated; otherwise, #conned.

Throw in some propaganda machines, and you can sow misinformation, distrust, chaos, and conspiracies, and they will take hold. Then, you can develop a herd of sheep that will follow you while ignoring their own self-interest.

That is what we now have in this country.

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