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GiqueCee

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3. Social Impact Theory...
Sat Oct 25, 2025, 09:38 AM
Saturday

... is the preferred clinical term for a phenomenon wherein a small number of people with a particular world view can exercise active influence over the rest of society. The Hell's Angels fancy themselves the "1%ers", that small number of people, in this case, a violent bunch with bad intentions, that can influence the behavior of that segment of society they are currently infesting, like so many ticks on choppers. But that segment of society has to be conducive to such a malign influence. We now know that Trump-humpers are VERY conducive.
Trump and his malevolent minions are the embodiment, on a much grander scale, of the mindless malice and pathological selfishness that drives that notorious bunch of bikers, but Trump has 'em all beat. The magnitude of his evil can only be measured in astronomical terms. And he WILL continue to escalate his horrific destruction of anything and everything that is good about America. If he isn't stopped, he will get us all killed, be it through a conflict with, say, Venezuela, that goes supernova, a civil war, or simply letting people die from previously treatable diseases because the shame of the Kennedy clan bans vaccines.
But I really like your film set analogy. I've been on a few sets, if only as an extra, and I've witnessed that dynamic in action.

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