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<blockquote data-quote="The Question" data-source="post: 1170783" data-attributes="member: 1100">Exactly. &quot;How, and to whom, are Trump or Musk giving any of the largesse clawed back from government money-laundering programs?&quot;Invariable response: <img src="https://i.imgur.com/8MpbRgo.gif"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":daFuq4:" title="daFuq4&nbsp; &nbsp; :daFuq4:" data-shortname=":daFuq4:" /> or some variation on same from the drones.Curious as to why that is? Well, I have a pretty good idea:Lily and LotusBud are (or claim to be) retired educators. Admin is (or claims to be) a retired squid.These are people who operate by rote. They are professionally trained to not question anything. Consequently, they frown on anybody who does question anything. They have become habituated, over the courses of their careers, to hate non-conformity of opinion.They literally cannot handle being questioned. So they don't engage in inquiry, and they can't handle it when anyone else engages in it. It's outside the scope of their capabilities. They know how to employ emotional and social manipulation (because those work on children and Navy personnel) but they have no framework within which to handle people who don't treat them as authority figures and just accept whatever they're told.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="The Question, post: 1170783, member: 1100"] Exactly. "How, and to whom, are Trump or Musk giving any of the largesse clawed back from government money-laundering programs?" Invariable response: :daFuq4: or some variation on same from the drones. Curious as to why that is? Well, I have a pretty good idea: Lily and LotusBud are (or claim to be) retired educators. Admin is (or claims to be) a retired squid. These are people who [I]operate by rote. [/I]They are [I]professionally trained to not question anything. [/I]Consequently, they frown on anybody who [I]does[/I] question anything. They have become habituated, over the courses of their careers, to [I]hate [/I]non-conformity of opinion. They literally [I]cannot handle being questioned.[/I] So they don't engage in inquiry, and they can't handle it when anyone else engages in it. It's outside the scope of their capabilities. They know how to employ emotional and social manipulation (because those work on children and Navy personnel) but they have no framework within which to handle people who don't treat them as authority figures and just accept whatever they're told. [/QUOTE]

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