#Cult

Bud Cannes

IC_Heavy

The one thing I worry about in regard to the end to qAnon is that there are going to be a lot of people who have alienated friends and family

Mark Changizi

MarkChangizi

You’re experiencing the rise of a cult, not a religion. Cults spring up due to acute psycho-societal forces, and are a kind of mass psychosis.Religions, on the other hand, have

Amanda Marcotte

AmandaMarcotte

The Trump was going to more fully embrace QAnon was overdetermined. He's a narcissist, like all cult leaders, and having a bunch of people set aside common sense and self-interest

Stacey Rudin 🙂

stacey_rudin

“Covid” is the mass delusion of a cult, similar to the Jonestown massacre. When faced with a pathogen, humans must stay calm and carry on, not convince themselves that if

Arthur Chu

arthur_affect

I have to point out again that the two "teams" in the United States are not even or symmetrical teamsThe Republican Party is an embattled minority that, at this point,

Izabella Kaminska

izakaminska

To this day, historians are divided on whether Augustus was really a good or bad force in the course of the breakdown of the Roman Republic, and whether his reign

Claire Berlinski.

ClaireBerlinski

On the one hand, this is glib, QAnon isn't just a rebranded Nazi cult. https://www.justsecurity.org/72339/qanon-is-a-nazi-cult-rebranded/ On the other, it's too close for comfort, and something has gone terribly wrong with

grug stan

grugstan

til R U OK Day came out of a "leadership program" run by Landmark, a corporate education outfit with links to cults and allegations of cult-like treatment of students.https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/landmark-

Claire Berlinski.

ClaireBerlinski

Here's an article that discusses the cult dynamics of "wokeness." The question, "What is a cult?" is notoriously hard to answer, and this isn't a particularly serious effort: https://newdiscourses.com/2020/06/cul

David Atkins

DavidOAtkins

No seriously...how *do* you deprogram 75 million people? Where do you start? Fox? Facebook?We have to start thinking in terms of post-WWII Germany or Japan. Or the failures of Reconstruction

Tomi T Ahonen of the Smile Police

tomiahonen

Thread 6: Brainwashing by BannonI mean literally brainwashing. Please see psychological and sociological theories. I mean literally building a cult - that CANNOT FIND THE TRUTHIt is like the Branch

Hiroyuki Hamada

HiroyukiHamada

1/8Just like any other religious cult would, capitalism has been at its final stage for sometime, and it has turned itself into a doomsday cult. Believers would scream that the

Kenneth Owen

kenneth_owen

So in Illinois, a bunch of high school sports have been pushed back to the spring. Unsurprisingly, there’s been a bunch of bellyaching from some usual suspects.But all this shows

DominiqueNM, M.A. (She/Her)

NmDominique

Realizing that @MeghanMcCain & @GOP pundits are really just a symptom of their cult-of-personality that requires full buy in to continue. Have any other children of prominent Dems made an

CN Lester

cnlester

I feel like we all need to get really good at understanding, engaging with, and deprogramming cult and cult-like beliefs and behaviour, and we need it yesterday, but we're all

Evan Dawson

evandawson

On November 2nd, a short thread on the difference between Biden support and Trump support.1) Last winter, I had a hard time finding any actual Biden Democrats. It was easy

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