The reason I'm going in depth is because this tactic is also used against homeless people, drug addicts, people on welfare, food stamps, social/rent control housing, Unemployement benefits. It frames Taxpayers as the "real" victims and paints poor people as the villains "justifying" cuts to services

Moral Disengagement and Neutralization are propaganda techniques often used to manufacture/engineer consent for oppression and genocide, because they frame oppression as "Self Defense" and the victims of oppression as "the enemy within", it's part of the Accusations in a mirror tactic of persuasion.

In general framing Recipients of Social Service benefits as lazy, incompetent, dishonest, scammers, leeches is a way of creating moral disengagement (The public stops empathizing with them/protecting them) & Neutralization (denying victimhood & grievances portraying the recipients as the enemy).

You would find Alberta Bandura's theory of Moral Disengagement and Sykes and Matza's theory of Neutralization techniques. This reframe of child benefits, SNAP, and other benefits meets the criteria. Blaming/discrediting victims & reversing the morality to make perpetrators look like the real victims

My hope is that in 2026 Conservatives on X and Liberals on Blue Sky can both give up the ego trip of being better than each other, being "eternal victims/persecution" of each other, attacking blaming, insulting each other. This evolution of character will heal society🇨🇦🇺🇸
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Identity Politics and Left vs Right Culture wars are just one massive ego trip that blinds people to truth and reality. They stop humanity from evolving and moving forward into higher planes of consciousness, more productive forms of social organization, and institutional structural functionalism.🇨🇦🇺🇸

If you're busy "being a man" then you alienate yourself from the 4 billion women and vice versa. If you're busy "Being a victim" then you alienate yourself from the power/ability & confidence in you. If you're busy "being right/winning" you alienate yourself from the magic, beauty & mystery of life.

Like I said on X, the last thing you want to be is a liberal walking around doing liberal things, or a conservative walking around doing conservative things. You want to be a free, independent living breathing human being, experiencing life & interacting with the world. m.youtube.com/watch?v=TZUf...

But that is the point, you'lll never know who you truly are as long as you're blinded by labels like man, woman, black, white, Liberal, conservative, prolife, prochoice, Dem, Rep As long as you define yourself as a member of a group & conform to that group, you'll never know your true authentic self

7) Aside from a calm mind & emotional control, learn the power of the Socratic Method & Socratic Irony & when & how to use them properly. Sometimes getting to the right answer requires asking the right questions, & asking the right follow up questions in response to your opponents answers. Wise Mind

6) Depending on whether the multiply by absurdity tactic is being used in a debate or propaganda, your goal is not to convince the person you're debating with that they're wrong, its to convince the audience that you're right. Don't get lost or distracted by "who"(Personality/status) you're debating

5) Stay calm & Speak Slow. The Multiply by absurdity tactic relies heavily on emotional manipulation. Their goal is to make you appear irrational, illogical, mentally unstable, overly emotional. So they'll try to make you angry, frustrated, insecure, loud, flustered resulting in disorganized speech.

3) Replace the absurd premise your opponent has created with a logical premise that you created so that the debate format goes back to logical premise x Logical premise = Logical conclusion
4) Focus the conversation on the logical conclusion. Avoid using insults, petty sarcasm or ad hominems.