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Strategy 10 involves deterring aggression by appearing "a little crazy" or violent. The hosts discuss the dehumanizing effect of constant media violence, from video game-style war footage to domestic gun violence. They note how the "presence" of threat, such as living under drones or constant crime reports, is used to keep populations in a state of fear.
Mo revisits a lecture on the ritual sacrifice of black men as a tool to create a unified "white" identity and restore social harmony. Citing Rene Girard, the discussion explores how internal violence in a community is suppressed by projecting it onto a marginal victim who cannot fight back. Mo argues that the Democratic Party dehumanized Floyd by treating him as a necessary sacrificial lamb for their political agenda.
The hosts discuss the dehumanizing nature of social media, where people take joy in the suffering of their political opponents. They use an analogy of a slave ship where the captain throws down only enough food for half the prisoners to keep them fighting each other. This is compared to the $600 stimulus checks, which the hosts describe as a meager distraction to keep the population from uniting against the government.
