The desire to change your mind is how they manipulate you to stay. It's also designed to rile up people now opposed to you and make them more hostile to the idea that you genuinely changed your mind. You're less likely to be accepted, so you're less likely to leave.

This puts a heavy moral tax on the ability to leave the cult. If you admit that what was being done was wrong, you admit you are no longer a part of the group. You risk connection, health, stability, and your sense of loyalty is corrupted to compel you morally to remain. Tying moral failure to

In a cult, we see people we believe have the same goals as us and feel compelled to support them however they ask. That's how it's so easy to lie to followers and convince them of things that aren't true - to continue to belong, they must play by the rules or risk being stripped of belonging.

"Triggering the libs" was a strategy deployed to alienate right wing voters by pitting them against their neighbors, which in turn made them more susceptible to the identity politics in the cult of Trump. This makes it easier to convince you to give up your rights and access to wealth and power.

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.

No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.

1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

Much cheaper! That's a fun way to do it.

I would have done a roasted tea like genmaicha or lapsang,, personally. Can you use loose leaf or do you need to use tea bags? I got you on a source for loose leaf lapsang and I can send you some genmaicha via mail

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Former AHS CEO Athana Mentzelopoulos has filed a response letter. We have received an alleged copy.

To say that it has bombshell allegations is a wild understatement.

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Excellent breakdown. Use to build.

Meta pirated at least 101 of my books and articles, and tens of millions of others And they knew perfectly well what they were doing

Meta pirated at least 101 of my books and articles, and tens of millions of others.
open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...

Yup! I noticed alright. Target regulators so he can't lose money by being regulated for his very very dangerous product and he keeps selling. What a cool guy! 🙃

And stoo making being gay the butt of the joke. Homophobia is a tool of white supremacy to undermine class consciousness though strict interpretations of gender and sexuality. Don't let people goad you into oppressing someone else for them.

And to add to that, I dont need some weird gay porn shit about Trump and <insert other power misogynist> and it sure as hell is insulting as a gay person that people think it's funny. I get the "joke" it's just bad. Ffs he just hates women and we should focus on why THAT is wrong.

And no, it's not my job to "be nice about it" to make a man who thinks if he can't fuck me I should die feel better about not getting his pole waxed for social validation. Eat my hot fudge sundae, asswagon.

People like this are exactly that, straight men who have externalized their inferiority into hatred of women so deep and unyielding they unironically want to erase us and fuck robots.

Still wild to me that Elon is "rooting out corruption" when 1) he fired the people who actually know how to use the department systems and interpret the data (his peons don't) and 2) even if he did, he hasn't had enough time to perform an audit. He is just cutting departments and calling it done.

The genius that is Banksy completely nailed it here

Sad as hell what's app was bought by bookface

Gotta love human bodies.

"How dare you have plans. I'm going to shit IMMEDIATELY if you don't sit down."

Which, yeah, that's the point of right wing politics over the last 20-30 years - divide and conquer. It's why the grifter-to-right wing darling pipeline is so effective. It's the greed and the selfishness.

Sorry, I didn't mean the head of the FAA ceding contracts to Musk was a good idea. My abstract thought was that it's disingenuous to see Musk as a person lacking intelligence. He's not. He just doesn't have the competency to back his ideas and has decided gull tilt greed is just more beneficial

YouTube video by LegalEagle DOGE Is The Real Fraud ft. Liz Dye

Legal Eagle telling the audience the obvious: Musk doesn't have the ability and has not had the time to look into the operations of these complex government institutions. It's not possible. And it was never his goal, so crawl out your own ass and get angry.

Spot on: “the story that matters most is how the dismantling of American institutions threatens everything else we cover. When the fundamental structures that enable innovation, protect civil liberties, and foster open dialogue are under attack, every other tech policy story becomes secondary.”

This is insane. Wired is always more reliable than wireless. Always. People will DIE. Sure, the equipment needs upgraded, but replaced by something less efficient that isn't even programmed to work with existing FAA software?! You can have good ideas and still be fundamentally stupid.

Afterthe announcement that the FAA is in talks to switch from WIRED to Starlink WIRELESS, I need the clowns to stop clowning and pretending Elon is laying waste to corruption. He hasn't spent enough time examining any data, for one, and he's using his position to profit personally. That's corruption

My friend dropped by my job with a donut from a shop were were trying so hard to go to. It was really fucking good. Also vegan, which is great because she's transitioning her diet in that direction. Thank youuuuu

Limited but effective uses. I'm excited about THAT but the opposite of excited for the applications with billions behind them - filled with dread, one might say.

I think it was Japan? They built one to look at ice cream or cookies or something to determine flaws and the model actually turned out to be over 90% effective at detecting cancer in human tissue samples.

If you're not playing @playbalatro.com you're missing out. Unless Uno scarred you.