• magguzu@midwest.social
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    3 months ago

    You know what seriously sucks, is you’re absolutely right. But in the moment some people are so completely caught off guard that logic like this just disappears. I was uncomfortable just watching this because I know I would be also continuing to talk more than I should in response to their fake politeness.

    Yesterday a man asked me to sign a paper to get some candidate on some ballot and, caught off guard, I was complying before noticing it was for a Republican candidate and logic just came back to me leading me to refuse before going too far.

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      3 months ago

      This is an excellent point and no doubt a key aspect of human nature that is exploited to achieve the overall success of this tactic.