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Pre-empting Smears and Strawmen

Pre-empting Smears and Strawmen

Update: 2021-05-04
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Cactus brings a positive update as political strategies evolve to combat disingenuous caricatures. As it turns out, preconditioning and prediction are useful tools for dealing with a static strategy of smears.

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