💡 Democracy requires debate 🗯 Compare & contrast: expose gaslighting 💬 Retweet = fyi 💛 Intention is to foster healthy debate, not cause harm. Zero AI
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🧵Thanks, we need more widespread education on propaganda.
Just as importantly, we need to explore *why* we are vulnerable to it, and the psychological mechanism at play.
Normal, empathic people are vulnerable because they project their own goodness onto others
and naively presume no-one would ever try to manipulate/harm them.
Normal, empathic people are disadvantaged
because they simply cannot get their heads around
the cold machinations of psychopathic, sociopathic peoples and systems… and the way they use the
victim card to (a) play on emotions and (b) camouflage
perpetrator goals.
This needs to change. We need to catch up, do research on dark triad abusive behaviours and learn to identify the primary tool: gaslighting.
Gaslighting is far worse than lying: it inverts and denies others’ reality and induces (measurable) confusion and helplessness.
The gaslighters gain power and control (via framing and narrative creation) over the hapless, who are ignorant of the psychological mechanism at play.
We need to understand this control dynamic far better.
Become resistant to gaslighting by studying its mechanisms better. Read; watch youtube lectures.
Once more of us can identify what’s at play -
the gaslighting tactic of Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender (DARVO)
- the more the red flags can be called out.
Education is key.
@fivefilters @ColdType1 @MaryKostakidis @anyaparampil @PanData19 @FiorellaIsabelM
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A bit weird….
🇺🇸 Thiel propone a la masonería de Nashville como alternativa moral al Papa León XIV 👇
En grabaciones filtradas, Peter Thiel defendió ante un grupo cerrado en el Templo Masónico de Nashville que la ciudad debería erigirse como una alternativa moral al Papa León XIV y a la Iglesia Católica, a la que calificó de “aliada dudosa” frente a un hipotético futuro presidente demócrata “Anticristo”.
En esa misma intervención afirmó que “EEUU es la última y definitiva forma del Imperio Romano” y que “no hay sucesor”.
El comentario se enmarca en una serie de ataques del inversor al pontífice a lo largo del año: Thiel ha criticado a León XIV al menos en cuatro ocasiones, llegando a llamarlo “un idiota útil del PCCh”.
Here's a story from propublica on potential funding to Afriforum from the U.S. State Dept.
Trump’s State Department Is Giving $1 Million to Controversial Group to Study Crimes Against White South Africans
propublica.org/article/afrif…
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I did not vote for the Republicans at the mid-term election -- nor for the Democrats, who can hardly be trusted. Both Democrats and Republicans are guilty of provoking and funding the unlawful wars against Russia and Iran. Both are and remain war-mongers.
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[RG911Team] The lies behind the 9/11 airline hijackings are being exposed - don’t miss it! ⬇️
Be sure to tune in next week and the following week for cutting-edge analysis undermining the official account of the 9/11 hijackings and airplane attacks.
Presentations will be followed by half-hour Q&As. We look forward to your questions and feedback!
ic911.org/news/its-a-frame-p…
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If you want a book that will take you away from so much grim reality and will make you laugh out loud, I recommend
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
I loved it 20 odd years ago and it is fresh and brilliant on rereading now
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Europe and North America are clearly on a declining trajectory, but that does not mean that have given up on their designs for World Domination. Something far more dangerous is going on.
Kyoto University Symposium 2026: "Geopolitics in the Time of Monsters"
Presentation 4: Nel Bonilla
Nel Bonilla challenges the assumption that Western decline necessarily leads to collapse or a peaceful multipolar order. Drawing on Antonio Gramsci, she examines how weakened legitimacy can coexist with coercion, institutional survival and the obstruction of alternatives. Her account of the bunker state connects austerity, militarization and elite power. The Kyoto Symposium discussion considers European dependence, competing interests and the fragmented forces opposing the existing order, asking what shared political language, organization and institutions might make meaningful systemic change possible.
Nel's Links:
Worldlines: worldlinesletter.substack.co…
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Time Stamps
00:00 Introduction and Gramsci’s time of monsters
03:20 Authority, consent and coercion
08:42 Why the Cold War was an exception
15:09 Different crises and the assumption of collapse
22:40 Why a new order cannot be born
27:50 The bunker state
33:08 Q&A: state power and European dependence
50:30 Democracy, capital and political organization
#Imperialism #Geopolitics #Neutrality #Hegemony #Europe
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Breaking: Reports the Iranian Navy is calling US Navy vessels "Jeffrey Epstein Ships" on the radio
When the two navies interact on the radio, instead of saying "US Navy Vessel" as is customary, Iranian captains ay "Calling Jeffrey Epstein ship, calling Jeffrey Epstein ship" 🤣🤣
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The most fragile moment in 500 years of Western imperial dominance is also its most dangerous. As power slips away, the masses are forming into a new and frightening way. And it all has to do with psychology.
Kyoto University Symposium 2026: "Geopolitics in the Time of Monsters"
Presentation 3: Prof. Mattias Desmet
Why do even intelligent people fall for the most ridiculous narratives? At the Kyoto Symposium, Mattias Desmet presents his theory of mass formation, linking loneliness, anxiety and collective identification to propaganda and intolerance. He argues that sincere speech can rebuild human connections and resist destructive conformity. The discussion tests his account against history, modernity, class, racism and contemporary geopolitical conflict. Audience members challenge his assumptions and explore whether psychological explanations can complement structural analysis when diagnosing the dangers facing societies today.
Mattias's Links:
Official website: mattiasdesmet.com/en/
Substack: words.mattiasdesmet.org/
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Time Stamps
00:00 Introduction: diagnosing the patient
04:56 Intelligence, conformity and mass formation
08:31 Loneliness and the appeal of collective narratives
15:56 Intolerance, propaganda and conflict
19:39 Sincere speech and rebuilding human connections
24:10 Q&A: anxiety and propaganda
38:17 History, class and the limits of mass psychology
56:40 Belief, experience and the final audience questions
#Propaganda #Geopolitics #Neutrality
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Breaking News: Israel breathes a sigh of relief as it remembers it also bought the US Democrats.
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Our political imaginations have become so stunted, so impoverished that we now get excited by the lowest of low bars: the prospect of getting Trump out of office.
The US empire, and its global military killing machine, will carry on regardless.
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Breaking
French bank hacked, loses over 100 mln
franceinfo.fr/economie/fraud…
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More proof of that too much capitalism (too few capitalists) eventually just becomes Bolshevism.
@Handre
JUST IN: Massive Cyberattack on French blood banks heats samples to 110°C from -30°C
Shortly before, Cyber firm Claroty was caught playing with refrigeration systems, experimenting and hijacking temperatures in EU.
@grok, which country was this firm founded in?
Country only
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"Three states at the centre of the AI build-out - Texas, Georgia and Ohio - elected Democratic candidates who have pledged to crack down on building data centres."
"26 gubernatorial candidates across 21 states backed some form of moratorium on data centre development."
Link👇
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History will show that no one did more to promote left-wing ideas than Donald Trump, and no one did more to advance the Palestinian cause than Benjamin Netanyahu.
