• PeleSpirit@lemmy.world
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    The tricky thing about all this is that some people are more susceptible to this type of rhetorical manipulation than others. This comes down to critical thinking and brain training. If one wants to or needs to believe then the language works manipulatively and the neural pathways are built up. If we aren’t fearful or primed to believe, our brain has mechanisms to alert us to the deceit. Simply put — if we are constantly critical of lies, our brains are more trained to notice them.

    They’re not talking about cadence though, I think that’s a huge part of it. I start to believe trump isn’t such a bad guy when I hear him speak and I hate him, I can’t imagine how people fall for him and kind of like him or even already love him. I was listening to one of his speeches when he was on trial for something and then I sped it up, it completely broke the spell. There was also a cult expert in the 70s that talked about how that sing-songy way of speaking helps to brainwash people.

    Best advice for relatives under the spell, speed up the videos to break it.

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      I always found it odd that Trump sounds so different on audio recordings than when he is giving a speech. Cadence is the reason. I just want to know if someone taught him or he learned it on the fly. Knowing he had Hitler speeches in his nightstand makes me think he actually watched his speeches. That’s horrifying if true.

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        I think he was taught, he has some very creepy people working for him that would have watched the videos, read all the stuff and then taught him the lessons. He’s a shitty dude too, some of it probably came naturally.

        Knowing he had Hitler speeches in his nightstand makes me think he actually watched his speeches. That’s horrifying if true.

        Have you ever noticed that they usually speed up hitler’s speeches? I don’t think that’s an accident.

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          Who sped up his speeches? Are you saying they speed it up to stop the “spell” or create it?

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            I’m saying that they speed them up for the public so they don’t fall under the sing song voice. Apparently he was a persuasive speaker. We’re easily influenced beings.