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Scott Adams' brainwashing indicators "in the wild"...

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If you are not familiar with Scott Adams' How To Identify the Brainwashed , in which he goes over the "tells" that a brainwashed person will display when discussing a topic, you should be. One of the tells listed is "OMG", followed by either sarcasm or no argument at all. Well, in a debate last night, I saw this in action first-hand, and it was interesting to see exactly how accurate Mr. Adams' article was: Earlier in the debate (here is the  full debate , for reference), I had been using variations on Mr. Adams' techniques for How To Un-Hypnotize a Rabid Anti-Trumper , so it doesn't surprise me that I got a result he has encountered, but it was still thrilling to see it "in the wild". And of course, my interlocutor immediately took it as a personal insult that I would point this out to him, in spite of the fact that we are all brainwashed in one way or another. I guess I hit a nerve?