#Cult

Justin Owings

justinowings

Ever wonder what turns normal folks into true believing cult members? "They're crazy!" Maybe.In 1953 Robert Lifton studied 40 brainwashing victims—25 Americans, 15 Chinese—and deduced 8 criteria for thought reform

Bill Scher

billscher

The grip Trump has on the Republican Party -- in defeat! -- really is astounding.Presidential campaign losers typically are shunted. They aren't allowed to be party bosses or standard bearers.Yes

Dr Tracy Westerman

TracyWesterman

1/The core of understanding cultural attachment theory lies in the primary differences in Aboriginal parenting-Indigenous natural growth parenting teaches interdependence in children & teaches children 2c the group as more

shida ;)

mynameisshida

i should make a thread of my favourite documentaries/docuseries evil genius is so strange but so fucking interesting 10/10 we all know ted bundy so i don’t even need to

Paul J. Garth

PauljGarth

There’s a lot going on in crime fiction today, so here are my two cents: there are places that are actively looking to attract new writers, who want to support

Joscha Bach

Plinz

Some brain defects let you perceive social reality in a deeply distorted way while often leaving the rest of your reasoning intact, eg. Capgras illusion: in her last weeks, my

Rodrigo Kumpera

kumpera

Pull Requests has to be the most misguided engineering practice I’ve seen in my career. It produces the worst engineering process with horrible incentives. PR reviews are a shift-right design

Charlie Brigden

filmsonwax

I actually fought with myself quite a bit about this, but here we go: These are the things I've written and had published in 2020, chronologically... I began the year

Neeche Se Topper

NeecheSeTopper

some renowned international batsmen as diwali crackers [a thread] fires great with support from other end and often reaches to heights which none from its fraternity can dare to touch

Spencer Ackerman

attackerman

One point in Professor X’s favor I realize he deserves: Magneto never builds mutant community, only a cult of personality (Brotherhood, Acolytes). Magneto’s disciples factionalized & harm each other.https://open.spotify.com/episode/

Antifa VP--Putsch division

desertborder

Just arrived here for this one, a far-right cult leader with a long history of grifting is attempting to hold a super-spreader eventhttps://twitter.com/desertborder/status/1344372009375940609 A speaker says Feucht and his acolytes

Kaj Sotala

xuenay

It's not just that the cultists are getting "brainwashed" by their leader; it's also that the leader is getting brainwashed _by their cultists_ to take the role that they want

Jessica Price

Delafina777

I think I already retweeted this article, but it's depressing and chilling and important, and I want to dig into it a little bit.https://www.huffpost.com/entry/children-of-qanon-believers_n_601078e9c5b6c5586aa49077 I think the biggest t

Juan Garrido

typeofman

The American finds paternalism repugnant because it limits his assertion of himself as his own master. It is unsurprising that democracy to him is the greatest good: the abandonment of

Larry Sanger

lsanger

Here's the real news regarding #Epstein and #Pedogate that nobody is reporting.Let's begin here: What the hell has been going on in all the *other* elite social circles, and before

The Editorial Board

johnastoehr

White liberals must face the truth by @johnastoehr https://stoehr.substack.com/p/white-liberals-must-face-the-truth?r=5msd&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=twitter 1. Ezra Klein, a prominent white liberal, is the top

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