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You know, the thing that I started to notice as I was seeing how this aspect of these worlds was overlapping

is that the email funnel, right,

the sense that you can have someone join your email list

and then you have a series of emails that go out to them over a period of time,

right, at specific intervals that is calibrated to keep getting them buying in,

whether that's upselling them on whatever the product or service or experience might be,

the online course, or whether it is just continuing as people like SayrG do

to radicalize them further, right?

And as RFK actually joined RFK's email list to see what he's doing, RFK Junior,

and yeah, it's amazing.

It's amazing the steady stream of emails I get that would be radicalizing me

into a hardcore anti-vaxxer if I was open to it.

Yeah, and they all take advantage of, if they're good, they take advantage of dark patterns.

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