the first, second and third most important news stories this week are about the SCOTUS decision, and every columnist spending their time talking about biden old is telling you what they value. we don’t have to indulge them, though, stop your subs, stop clicking, stop talking about them.
I always assumed if a group wanted to overthrow US it would take some level of intelligence and skill. Instead it's just fucking dumb through and through.
yep. it's more chutzpah than anything else. Normal people are so taken aback they don't know how to respond. That's 80% of the problem. At least. Then you get bulldozed. Which is very much what's happened with the establishments. They tried to play by the rules and these fucks play Calvinball.
Basically they use the same techniques as any abusers (I like the term narcissistic abuse as it's specific and particularly apt, but not gonna go to the mat over it), only scaled up. It would behoove all of us to become much more savvy about this shit, i feel. How to spot it, how to respond.
to wit: the usual intimidation techniques, but also gaslighting and pre-emptive as well as after the fact DARVO are huge. Using third parties to triangulate and act as flying monkeys. Scapegoating. Manipulating vulnerable people with love bombing, then various cult techniques to keep em in line.
Oh we’re were just discussing an old friend who’s now a preacher and observing how he has filled his FB timeline with pictures of birds, interspersed with sugar -coated racist, homophobic hate memes … all wrapped in unthinking quotes that predefine pushback as the protestations of sinners.
Yes!
I morbidly study fundies a LOT. What's really striking, and important, is that this shit starts at birth. If you have a strong stomach, look up "To Train Up A Child" sometime. It's basically an abuse manual. But its core precept is that children are born sinful, "vipers in diapers"
and, supposedly, you're beating them in order to break their will and this is all for the good, because that's what God wants. Obedience.
Of course it's also the adults' repressed anger and sadism because of all the abuse THEY endured but had no other outlet to turn it on til now. Rinse, repeat.
