#Deprogramming from a #cult #uspol

https://www.rawstory.com/are-trump-supporters-brain-washed/?utm_source=123456&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=15383

#Memory Marathon 2012: #AdamCurtis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp2vGAD-BGw

#Brainwashing as a psychological concept is brainwashing itself: it doesn't exist and prevents us from thinking out of the box concepts we accept as "the #norm". 😯

Great 22min #video to watch and learn how brainwashing was used to actually manipulate the perception of the masses. 🤯

#deprogramming #psychology

#deprogramming no paywall, gifted article. https://wapo.st/3N58xz8

#deprogramming #rightwing #dealingwithextremists Written by missmentelle on tumblr. https://www.tumblr.com/psyfic/710164188611428352/my-sibling-is-alt-right-and-extremely-hateful

@OkieSpaceQueen

Thanks for sharing!

Curating under #Disinformation with cross referencing to #deprogramming #DeprogramYourself and #ConspiracyTheories

@OkieSpaceQueen

Nice! That's some quality experimental work.

I'll put it along with asking people to explain why their bigoted joke is funny as a useful tool.

#conspiracytheory
#deprogramming
#DontSpreadFascistPropaganda

Speaking of #crime "like nobody's ever seen before" ( #TrumpVirus ) - awaiting #accountability -

Here is an interesting & well-written glimpse of #GQP / #TrumpVirus cult 'thinking' (exiting?)

# Trump's idiotic 'trading cards' are the last straw for Republicans

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-s-idiotic-trading-cards-are-the-last-straw-for-republicans/

Not only a case study of 'group-think' but an excellent compendium of historical facts, one horrid act after another

#cult #deprogramming #CognitiveDissonance #fraud #sedition #TaxEvasion #Emoluments #Jan6

@OkieSpaceQueen

May I curate this with:

#deprogramming #conspiracyTheory #ConspiracyTheoryIdiocy #antiRacism #DontSpreadFascistPropaganda #transphobia #Peaking #DontSpreadHate

Because fascism uses CT to spread so much hate and this is top tier stuff.

If annoying I can delete.

Deleted #Twitter?
Feeling #Edgy?
Is there a hole in your day, in your core created by the absence of instant access to real time #human suffering and #vitriol ?

Fear not, these feelings are #Normal as you begin the process of #deprogramming of #Deradicalizing #ComingDown

Welcome to #Mastadon just one alternative for members of #TwitterholicsAnonymous going #ColdBirdy (image credit not found)

The word that MUST become #1 in 2023 = “#deprogramming” (as in to get out of a #cult). / Le mot qui DOIT devenir #1 en 2023 = "#déprogrammation" (comme pour sortir d'une #secte). #wordof2023

Is there something in the Christian mythology that would lead one to teach their children that plants are not alive?

Or is it just a weird one off? Either way, I am thoroughly confused.

#homeschool
#deprogramming

Ya’ll I cannot keep up w/this #disinformation #debugging #deprogramming I’ve to #constantly do on my very good friend who lives in Silicon Valley & #hobnobs with the .01 & .00001%

#WhatIsHappening ?!?!? #poltergeist #CovidBrain #cognitiveDissonance

SHE JUST TOLD ME SHE THINKS #ELMO IS A #GENIUS !!!!
I’m so #enraged yet oddly #dispassionate b/c I’m #whatever #ofcourse my darling sweet friend has gone to dark side

Is he an #engineering genius?
Please I need #facts too tired to #research this

I keep catching myself trying to game the algorithm—but there is no algorithm.

The stuff in my feed is what I asked #Mastodon to put in my feed. No metagaming needed! It's a strange feeling to realize how I've trained myself to do this over the years.

#Adjusting #Deprogramming #ReclaimingMyExperience

Adam Curtis speaks about brainwashing. Its fascinating history, and how it is disproven yet we still love to use it to understand (or rather misunderstand) people.
https://youtu.be/lp2vGAD-BGw

#AdamCurtis #BrainWashing #DeProgramming #Psychology #Reality #Society #NewIdeas

Best advice I've seen for #deprogramming friends and relatives is to stay away from arguments. Stick to shared activities and values. See each other as human, not enemies. Thoughts?

war is the most fucked-up drug

the cult teaches you to trust your body,

but only for violence

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Just...think about that,
if you've not seen active combat.

Now, think about
what growing up in that mindset
does to a kid.

Growing up #ActuallyAutistic in that environment gave me a layer of subconscious expectation that any touch could become violence at any moment. The heightened awareness of #ConstantVigilance is just...life as normal.

Being back here is...not good for me.

This is the place where that training happened.
Finding a way to keep my personal stability has required compromises to preserve my literal sanity.

Resisting that is the first part of even having equal footing with other, more 'socialized' individuals in social, interpersonal, and personal contexts.

The work of #deprogramming this will take me a lifetime, and my primary concern is making sure that this trauma ends with me.

I'we wages war on war, that tomorrow's children might live free.

And this commitment towards finding and ending the root cause of armed conflict cannot be changed, shaken, or deferred.

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Peace in our time, or gee tee eff oh.

Thank y'all for being on this journey with i'we.

#Deprogramming, #Defunding, #Deplatforming and Soon-to-be the #Delousing of #FEMA Camp #Detainees Represents the New Normal

https://thecommonsenseshow.com/agenda-21-conspiracy-economics/deprogramming-defunding-deplatforming-and-soon-be-delousing-fema-camp-detainees-represents-new

What’s the best way to deprogram 70 million cult members?

Stealing heavily from cult expert Steven Hassan:

• Members think the leader is the only one who has the keys to saving the everything, the only one who has access to the truth.
• Cult leader thinks he’s above the law, which is why he’s allowed to do anything he wants, persecute and harass or harm anyone he wants.
• Members believe that God had chosen the leader or is using the leader.
• Black-and-white, all-or-nothing, good-versus-evil, authoritarian view of reality that is mostly fear-based.
• Irrational fears are drilled into people’s minds so that they can’t even imagine leaving the group or questioning the leader.
• Members believe in the leader and follow him religiously and don't question anything he says even when it’s obvious that he’s lying
• The leader lies and insults and projects weakness onto others
• Members believe a well-defined web of batshit insane conspiracy theories

https://old.reddit.com/r/sociology/comments/jomhyx/whats_the_best_way_to_deprogram_70_million_cult/

#deprogramming

Looking for feeds about #feminism #dystopia #deprogramming #socialpsychology #antipsychiatry. Happy to discover new eng/ita sources