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Heard at the latest cult meeting (Original Post) Norbert Apr 2022 OP
Absolutely Orwellian! bif Apr 2022 #1
They found a black guy! alphafemale Apr 2022 #2
I suspect you are referring to those folks MerryHolidays Apr 2022 #4
It's Menticide. sop Apr 2022 #3
This link and essay deserve to be bookmarked and . . . peggysue2 Apr 2022 #5
The most disturbing thing is that people believe this shit! Initech Apr 2022 #6
I feel dumber for listening. Cracklin Charlie Apr 2022 #7

bif

(22,764 posts)
1. Absolutely Orwellian!
Sun Apr 3, 2022, 11:11 AM
Apr 2022

If you keep repeating a lie over and over, people will believe it. Thank you Mr. Goebbels.

MerryHolidays

(7,715 posts)
4. I suspect you are referring to those folks
Sun Apr 3, 2022, 11:44 AM
Apr 2022

who sit prominently behind the Idiot at rallies wearing "Blacks for Trump" t-shirts.

Now that there is no more Russian money flowing into Trump's coffers, he can't pay these fools anymore to humiliate themselves. He needs the cash to fix his plane, instead.

sop

(10,271 posts)
3. It's Menticide.
Sun Apr 3, 2022, 11:25 AM
Apr 2022

"The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim.” - Gustav Le Bon, The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind

“Logic can be met with logic, while illogic cannot—it confuses those who think straight. The Big Lie and monotonously repeated nonsense have more emotional appeal … than logic and reason. While the [people are] still searching for a reasonable counter-argument to the first lie, the totalitarians can assault [them] with another.” - Joost Meerloo, The Rape of the Mind


From "The Manufacturing of a Mass Psychosis – Can Sanity Return to an Insane World?"

https://academyofideas.com/2021/04/manufacturing-of-a-mass-psychosis-can-sanity-return-to-an-insane-world/

peggysue2

(10,842 posts)
5. This link and essay deserve to be bookmarked and . . .
Sun Apr 3, 2022, 11:55 AM
Apr 2022

referenced, again and again. Because it is so on point and describes exactly what those of us who can still think are witnessing on a day-to-day basis.

The killing of the mind, collective madness?

Menticide.

Fear, isolation (think Covid lockdowns) and perpetual chaos all feed the monster(s).

I need to commit this one to memory.

Thank you for the link!

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