Richard Robertson

jakelafort wrote:
[…] Probably true of Trump cultists too. But goddamn i hope it is only a tiny minority. It is scary to contemplate how easily we homos are to manipulation. The plasticity that must have given us a survival advantage is leading us to our extinction.

I’m still hearing of the large numbers of Trump supporters, even after a…[Read more]

_Robert_ wrote:
The more realistic cause is that some sort of compartmentalization of their ability to rationalize things they are told.

Makes sense, and makes me think of how inner/evolved, tribal tendencies likely nurture and communicate/spread those compartmentalizations. It’s the old Us vs Them theme as a quick justification to avoid the…[Read more]

Here are two, particularly relevant audio segments on today’s NPR Morning Edition show:

• Parler Insists It Would Not Knowingly Tolerate Criminal Activity On Its Site (6:32 long)
• Can The Forces Unleashed By Trump’s Big Election Lie Be Undone? (5:08 long)

The second one analogizes Trump’s lies to fascist lies in world history.

For some Christians, the Capitol riot doesn’t change the prophecy: Trump will be president

[WaPo story]

Excerpt:

Five years ago, a prophetess Dyrud follows said she’d gotten a message that Trump would be president and save Christian America. Trump would be “as fearless as a lion being robbed of its cubs” and cause the “tall and lofty mountains…

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Unseen wrote:
If that is their statement of purpose, it’s ideological suicide, isn’t it?

It looks to me more like an anti-ideology than an ideology, except perhaps where they quote from the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS, ARTICLE 19. But yeah, any kind of promotion of western values might put those promoters at risk, ala Charlie Hebdo. Per…[Read more]

Kristina wrote:
…but I thought I read somewhere that a simple majority is enough to block him from running for office again.

Yes, but unless I’m mistaken, blocking him from running again can happen only after he’s actually convicted. In any case, I’m personally ok with the impeachment even as just a tokenal message, and ok with delaying any…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
PopeBeanie, no dice on the psychotropics, at least not on their purity or quality.  Thanks to both the old Alcohol Prohibition and the U.S. “War On (Some) Drugs” and their implementation worldwide, psychotropics are underground and controlled by organized crime gangs, their quality and purity are iffy at best and over…

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Davis wrote:
If you are too stressed out…then you can always just not engage and avoid news and political discussions.

Umm, speaking for myself, the only thing that would make that possible would be with the aid of some kind of psychotropic agent.

YMMV

But your suggestions for geographic relocation sound well informed!

@asianne (Ivy), I t…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
You guys just think nothing can go wrong when some people are given absolute control over people’s information and communication.  You think you’ll be the last one the allegator gets.  That is simply not borne out by bistory.

That’s just one example of a boatload of unhinged assumptions. The post, overall, emoti…[Read more]

The whole thing strikes me as more comical than imminently dangerous. The larger danger might be how these people party together and collude in the future. Most of Cult 45 believe Trump’s declaration that they won and were cheated, and that, imo, puts them into the category of Funny Farm personalities.

I’m also betting that the FBI’s going to be…[Read more]