Grand wrote on Jun 24
th, 2015 at 10:04pm:
+1
Before Geoff tried to dismiss her Factor had called out Cordovan's post over there and even made the same connection about the tactic they used with Crane that you just did Drop.
I will not be at all surprised if that tactic pops up, although it now looks like Jerry has cut his losses and pulled the whole thread that Geoff started on DDO to steer clicks to his site, but not after there was a enormous orgy of back-slapping and Atta-boys posted by Jerry's kids. It was obnoxious.
Thanks. I'm entering this drama late and haven't had a chance to review all that has transpired overnight my time.
This is rules of propaganda 101 - someone at Turdbine has found a book or done a weekend marketing course.
Establish a hated identity and produce "evidence" of their appalling crimes against whatever you want. In this case - the Vault (full of anarchist).
Get the consensus of public opinion (DDO forums) to turn against that "common" enemy.
Associate anyone you don't like with the identity. (Eg. Crane Mace, Hammer etc). By association, they're evil, vile and corrupted.
Voila - Win!
If you look big picture enough, you can see this all around us and is used to manipulate public confidences to nefarious ends.
If you find yourself disliking or hating something but aren't sure why - you just "know" they or their products are bad. You've been whammied!

The part that Cordo is stuffing up is the "own" it part. For it to work, you need to be confident in your resolve and own the actions you take so that people will follow you blindly.
Poor Cordo. He's trying to deny any involvement whilst simultaneously looking like he took action to his sycophants. Then his story starts to fall apart and he starts to recreate the facts and it all becomes murky and he calls upon his sycophants to rally to the Turdbine banner (for TP and favors, of course). Go team DDO!
I wonder if they have t-shirts and secret handshakes for their "brotherhood"
All this does leave me wondering - Is there nothing that Turdbine can implement successfully - other than business failure?