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coffeesp00ns  ·  3739 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Harold and Kumar join the Jihad

    As McCain and Kastigar and too many others have shown, all the bad guys need to do is offer a way to stop feeling like a loser.

This is how a lot of organizations work. Take people who feel weak or powerless, and give them an illusion of power, or even an illusion of making a difference (See Slacktivism, most egregiously things like Kony2012). This has been a viable strategy for centuries.