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“Ours is the first age in which many thousands of the best-trained individual minds have made it a full-time business to get inside the collective public mind.” ― Marshall McLuhan, The Mechanical Bride : Folklore of Industrial Man, year 1951

Leadership of Nations by using Cringe behaviors. Exploiting the minds of the audience, the citizens of nations, with cringe antics. Using cringe as a method of control and exploitation against a population.

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"Maybe the Children Will Have 2 Dolls Instead of 30 Dolls" - Donald Trump seems to not grasp retailers + USA middle-men profit off dirt-cheap Chinese goods they get for $2, resell retail for $18 (www.youtube.com)

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"Maybe the Children Will Have 2 Dolls Instead of 30 Dolls" - Donald Trump seems to not grasp that retailers + USA middle-men make profit off dirt-cheap Chinese goods they get for $2, resell retail for $18 (and that this employs USA people)

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[–] Archangel1313@lemm.ee 10 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

...he said, as he sat in front of the new solid gold ornaments he had installed all around the Oval Office.

[–] RoundSparrow@lemm.ee 3 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

sat in front of the new solid gold ornaments he had installed all around the Oval Office.

Those leaders in Ancient Egypt got to sit next to the pyramids of former rulers who had lavish tombs filled with gold and other valuables... asking their followers to start preparing for the ruler afterlife. Rather proven system of popularity.