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Strategy 20 involves baiting enemies into traps. The hosts discuss the proliferation of graphic and violent videos on social media, such as the Senate sex tape or beheading videos. They argue that consuming such "Faces of Death" style content is psychologically unhealthy and serves to "unhinge" the public. They advocate for refusing to watch such material to maintain mental clarity.
The discussion introduces the concept of "high-tech lynching" as a psychological and trauma-based weapon used by power structures to manipulate the public. Reference is made to the Jussie Smollett case and the Equal Justice Initiative's lynching memorial in Montgomery, Alabama. The narrative suggests that the historical trauma of slavery and lynching is wielded in modern contexts to enforce mental submission and social control.
Sociologist and YouTuber Deza Noah argues that the black community has been "engineered" into a state of generational victimization through the media's focus on police killings. He introduces the concept of "pathological generational desensitization," where self-hatred is created by pitting blacks against each other based on pigmentation and class. This system, he claims, makes it easy for young men to devalue their own lives and the lives of others.
