A form of goalpost manipulation where the ultimate objective is to get a user to say something that can be used against them. The talkpost is the moving standard of acceptable speech, the shifting boundary that the target is provoked to cross. First, they're encouraged to express a mild opinion. Then a stronger one. Then an extreme one. Each time, the post moves—what's acceptable expands, what's encouraged grows, until the target finally says something that can't be defended. That statement is captured, screenshotted, weaponized. The talkpost has done its work: manufactured the rope with which the target hangs themselves.
Example: "They wanted to expose him as extreme, so they set up a talkpost. First, they asked about his political views. He answered moderately. They pushed: 'But don't you think the other side is worse?' He agreed. They pushed harder: 'Don't you think they're evil?' He hesitated. They pushed hardest: 'Don't you think they should be stopped by any means?' Finally, he said something extreme. Screenshot. Published. Destroyed. The post had moved step by step, and he'd followed it into the trap."
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Hym "He's not talking to himself. And by he I'm mean me. And by not talking to myself I mean I know you are listening and watching and I am going to hurt someone over this and if it isn't the right person that is entirely your fault. You are protecting the wrong person here and you are only hurting yourselves by doing this to me."
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Hym "The second I stop talking this ends. And you don't want that. Unless you like child murder. Which I know you don't. I don't cry when children get murdered. So, either the talking gets me the credit and the money or the lack of cedit and money get your child murdered. That's the game. Go act in accordance with your own morality. Go get me then credit and the money or prepare your kids for death. Go. Now."
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