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05 Apr 2017
The show is a well-designed three-act play intended to exploit emotional offense regarding child harm to trigger irrational giving.

It's one of those things where he's put on this show, this elaborate show that I believe is a three-act play, essentially. This is Kabuki Theater. And now we've come to the part where, because everything is so severe, and because we're clearly in the crosshairs of this evil group that we're trying to take down, you need to give us a lot more money. I'm going to give a ton of money to this guy, and that means you've got to give me more money. Yep. That's exactly what the game is. You need to support him and me so I can support him. Right. Twice. Yep. That is the game. That is 100% the game. And now we get to it where Alex... So that is that low-level evil cunning. That's what that is right there. That is this whole thing. This whole thing. Un-fucking-believable. Well, it's political points and this. Yeah. No, this is... This is a televangelist level. It's well designed, I think, in many ways. If you're not paying attention to what's actually going on, it's easy to get caught up in the sensationalism and the emotion of it. And if you're someone who is easily... Influenced? Sure. Or, you know, I think people, rightfully so, are very offended when they hear about children being harmed. Yeah. And I think that using that is one way that you can... We certainly are. Well, you can easily trigger people into not thinking rationally when you bring those sorts of things up. And Alex is doing that to an intense degree.