reformative, distractive, mindless, puerile, childish, demagogic, petty, pointless, misguided, escapist, psychological warfare, sophistical, rhetorical, propagandistic, frivolous, vexatious, distracting, counterproductive, dishonorable, unnecessary, unproductive, deceitful, weaponless, superfluous, ignoble, fatuous, farcical, unserious, devious, silly, nefarious, tat, reckless, thoughtless, machinated, rehabilitative, harebrained, treasonable, idiotic, brainless, unpremeditated, insincere, ludicrous, retributive, demagogical, extraneous, nonsensical, reductio ad absurdum, tu quoque, futile, useless, unhelpful, laughable, despicable, defeatist, foolhardy, vacuous, simplistic, remedial, phoney, red herring, sophistic, sophomoric, meretricious, contemptible, phony, moronic, juvenile, elaborate, tawdry, amateurish, unenlightening, copycat, disingenuous, motiveless, obscurant, crass, shameless, indecorous, diabolical, inexplicit, unedifying, educative, otiose, spurious, witless, opportunistic, unconnected, mendacious, habitual, laudable, absurd, sham, criminogenic, punitive, disgraceful, nonproductive, cowardly, workshy, mitigative, pseudo, revanchist, ameliorative, advised, corrective, concerted, ordinated, preventive, underhanded, counterrevolutionary, manipulative, antiterrorist, building, coordinated, defensive, insurgency, policing, aggressive, busting, emptive

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