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Chris Shelton

@chrissheltonmsc.bsky.social

Former cult member turned academic researcher, writer, YouTuber and podcaster. Three most important words ever: I don't know. My most important life lesson: It's chaos; be kind.

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Imagine how the GOP would have responded if Obama had called up the National Guard against some city that didn't vote for him.

Then imagine how many of their heads would have exploded if Obama had then defied court orders to stand down.

That's exactly who's enabling Trump now. Same guys.

05.10.2025 23:16 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Glass Box Podcast: Ep 186 β€” REM Model of Human Behavior w/ Chris Shelton | The Christ Who Heals pt. finale We invite back Chris Shelton MSc from his YouTube channel by the same name to talk all about cults. He’s here to share his model of human behavior, the REM (Reason/Rationalization, Emotion, Morality) ...

Got to share my work with some of my favorite ex-Mormons on the Glassbox podcast. Enjoy! glassboxpodcast.libsyn.com/ep-186-rem-m...

02.10.2025 22:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Nailed it.

30.09.2025 21:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Your racism is pretty fucking gross.

30.09.2025 16:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Democracy dies because people become complacent and self-centered and forget how easy it is for this all to go away, so they give it away.

They think the strongmen they give it to will "hurt their enemies," never realizing the strongmen sees them as the enemy.

Then the dying starts.

30.09.2025 16:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The revolution won’t be televised but the treason sure is

30.09.2025 15:41 β€” πŸ‘ 13568    πŸ” 2877    πŸ’¬ 130    πŸ“Œ 59

South Park is a single 124 hour long film, made over 28 years, which documents how America struggled with and then eventually embraced fascism.

29.09.2025 09:57 β€” πŸ‘ 582    πŸ” 105    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 7

Our US Supreme Court and our Congress is collectively a body of fascists with a few loudmouthed exceptions who are working their guts out to wake people up to what is already too late to stop.

America is an idea that the GOP and these other Christofascists despise.

Let's not mince words.

30.09.2025 16:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ethics and integrity are the first victims of every fascist period in history.

Our population can be divided into those with integrity who live (and die for) their principles and those who will turn on their own family to save their cowardly selves.

I know which I am. What about you?

30.09.2025 15:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I’m here at the Portland ICE facility again tonight!
A official car was coming inside the ICE facility and they moved! The officers didn’t even come make them move!
This is my point, they are peacefully protesting, standing up for democracy, what media and MAGA is telling you is propaganda!

30.09.2025 07:13 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

It really doesn't matter what language you use, when someone or a whole group of people just hate, your language will never be acceptable to them.

30.09.2025 00:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My wife and I have determined that Hell is an eternity of watching every episode of Law & Order: SVU and every commercial break is the entire video of Love Shack by the B52s, on loop.

29.09.2025 01:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

At this point, it's undeniable. I honestly don't know why they even report to work anymore.

27.09.2025 19:15 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Just FYI: Portland as a war zone is horseshit, and deploying federal troops is horseshit.

27.09.2025 16:45 β€” πŸ‘ 12892    πŸ” 2780    πŸ’¬ 583    πŸ“Œ 150

A very true statement.

27.09.2025 19:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Chris Shelton's Critical Q&A #514 - LIVE YouTube video by Chris Shelton, MSc

Join me live at noon (Mountain time) on Sunday, Sept 28 for a live Q&A show. Ask me anything, especially about cults and coercion and let's get your questions answered. I hope to see you there. youtube.com/live/pU0D0xs...

27.09.2025 19:11 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is on the GOP.

They are a treasonous group of un-American power brokers and wastes of humanity. Every single one of them.

27.09.2025 18:44 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The Commander in Chief of the United States military is insane.

Full on straight jacket material. Rambling. Delusional. Drooling. A man who should be locked up and given a lollipop.

I will never forgive any of the people who could be stopping this right now and are not lifting a finger to do so.

27.09.2025 18:42 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

the Sinclair walkback is an example of modern right-wing behavior. how they are so starved for cultural power, they seize it, get too horny, flaunt their degeneracy and then try to hide again when it turns most people off. they collect power but they can never command respect. and they hate losing $

26.09.2025 20:34 β€” πŸ‘ 832    πŸ” 191    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 8
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It is so hard to catch him in one of these poses but sometimes he gets himself so twisted up.

26.09.2025 03:26 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Two big firsts today.

No other American president has ever named a political opponent to be prosecutedβ€”much less had an AG follow through with an indictment.

No FBI Director has ever released evidence from a live crime scene.

The Epstein files must be SO BAD.

24.09.2025 22:03 β€” πŸ‘ 9733    πŸ” 2943    πŸ’¬ 222    πŸ“Œ 103
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#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

24.09.2025 20:50 β€” πŸ‘ 13650    πŸ” 4486    πŸ’¬ 238    πŸ“Œ 158

It doesn't matter who gets killed, it doesn't matter what the circumstances are, the Right is going to use it for their own purposes. If this isn't obvious by now you're choosing to be obtuse.

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Dictatorships are precarious structures.

They are made of smoke and mirrors. They are held together with chewing gum and bailing wire.

Furthermore, the alliances that make dictatorship possible are fragile.

We can bring down dictatorships with nonviolent actions that take aim at their fragility.

Dictatorships are precarious structures. They are made of smoke and mirrors. They are held together with chewing gum and bailing wire. Furthermore, the alliances that make dictatorship possible are fragile. We can bring down dictatorships with nonviolent actions that take aim at their fragility.

24.09.2025 16:18 β€” πŸ‘ 48    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2

In a sane world, there’d be a family intervention and deployment of the 25th amendment.

24.09.2025 02:52 β€” πŸ‘ 7279    πŸ” 1406    πŸ’¬ 244    πŸ“Œ 67

Yes,we do see how embarrassing this is and we are horribly embarrassed.

Americans who support Trump are just morons. Unfortunately for us, America is a country packed to the gills with people who can't think.

24.09.2025 15:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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It came. It went. Ho-hum.

24.09.2025 13:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It must be the most bonkers headspace to imagine that Jimmy Kimmel is somehow a threat to you, your children or anyone's "way of life."

I mean, damn, the levels of delusion necessary to actually believe and then act on that belief...it's astounding.

24.09.2025 04:21 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Lol

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