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https://americatheawesome.com/must-watch-liberal-literally-speechless-after-learning-nazis-were-socialists/
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https://americatheawesome.com/trumps-newest-border-wall-tool-is-an-army-favorite/ (Trump’s Newest Border Wall ‘Tool’ Is an Army Favorite)
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WATCH: Comedy Central Trolls Celebrity 'Get Out The Vote' Ads
WTFU ...
“Of course the people don’t want war. But after all, it’s the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it’s always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it’s a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger.”
— Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials
“Of course the people don’t want war. But after all, it’s the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it’s always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it’s a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger.”
— Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials
When hate speech, firing up the airwaves and popping at the rallies, suddenly tears apart — with homemade bombs or assault rifles — the everyday lives of ordinary people, the results are not cinematic or larger-than-life. The results are exactly life-size. Even a retired accountant standing in a storage closet may be murdered; even soft-spoken folks whose beloved dog is home waiting for its lunch may be destroyed. A clerk in the personnel department turns her face toward her friend at the moment the atomic bomb obliterates the Hiroshima sky. A bow-tie-wearing doctor, having sliced and arranged the bagels in a synagogue kitchen in Pittsburgh, hears strange noises and hurries through a doorway to see if someone needs help when his life ends in a blast of hatred and gunfire.
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The Failed "md" has been doing this for 2 yrs. Never an original thought, just retweets from his beloved Democratic Nazi Party
Ahead of the midterm elections, Democrats make absurd Trump claims in last-ditch effort for votes
Ahead of the midterm elections, Democrats make absurd Trump claims in last-ditch effort for votes
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Texas, where they do things right.
$145M Texas border wall project awarded, Customs and Border Protection says
$145M Texas border wall project awarded, Customs and Border Protection says
Stop giving fascists a platform to debate. It's not a joke. The idea that they'll publicly embarrass themselves in front of an unsympathetic audience is a fantasy that wildly misunderstands the way human psychology works. Publicly debating them is a recruiting mechanism.
Let me put this another way: the alt-right, and Bannon in particular, uses the same recruiting techniques as cults. Anyone familiar with how cults go about indoctrinating new members will recognise them. Mainstreaming and making extreme ideas palatable is a huge goal of cults.
Most people are aware that cults take advantage of the emotionally vulnerable. Another group who is just as ideal for recruitment? People who are disillusioned with the status quo. Sound familiar? It should. Recruiters are literally trained to make their ideas sound appealing.
Among cult recruitment techniques that the alt-right has appropriated is thought reform. They identify their mark's needs, frustrations, and fears, and play to them. One of the ways they do that is by "mainstreaming", or making ideas seem reasonable, low pressure, and benign.
This is where debate comes in. Debating members of the alt-right is part of their goal of "mainstreaming". They're not going to come out in debate with extreme ideology. What they do is present their beliefs in a way that appeals to those frustrated with the political status quo.
That debate is literally intended to "soften people up" for recruitment. And I know people want to believe others will see through the manipulation, but unfortunately, human psychology tells us otherwise. Cults know this. The alt-right knows this. We have to accept it.
And I know some people will try to argue with me about this, so I can only say: research cults and their recruitment methods. They, like members of the alt-right, are very well trained to deal with a skeptical audience. They *want* to manipulate you into debating them.
(I know a bit about cults; my grandfather is the leader of one. He is Extremely Good at debate.)
Since I have people mentioning the numbers were wrong and Bannon lost, here's what's important to remember: he's not there to win the debate. If you, or someone you know, has experienced a religious or ideological conversion, it doesn't happen in a single night. It's incremental.
The goal is never about "winning" the debate. It's about getting you to consider a point, concede on another, engage with the ideology. That's what I mean about "softening people up". The goal is to normalize it to you.
My grandfather does this by talking about his "community". They're all taken care of, he'd say. Everyone is fed. No one suffers. We support each other. We're like a village. He didn't talk about how his members gave all their cash to the cult. That they disconnected from family.
The real stuff comes much, much later when you're already entrenched in the ideology. When you've already become sympathetic. Because by then, it feels normal.
Thread by @_ElizabethMay: "Stop giving fascists a platform to debate. It's not a joke. The idea that they'll publicly embarrass themselves in front of an unsympathetic […]"
Let me put this another way: the alt-right, and Bannon in particular, uses the same recruiting techniques as cults. Anyone familiar with how cults go about indoctrinating new members will recognise them. Mainstreaming and making extreme ideas palatable is a huge goal of cults.
Most people are aware that cults take advantage of the emotionally vulnerable. Another group who is just as ideal for recruitment? People who are disillusioned with the status quo. Sound familiar? It should. Recruiters are literally trained to make their ideas sound appealing.
Among cult recruitment techniques that the alt-right has appropriated is thought reform. They identify their mark's needs, frustrations, and fears, and play to them. One of the ways they do that is by "mainstreaming", or making ideas seem reasonable, low pressure, and benign.
This is where debate comes in. Debating members of the alt-right is part of their goal of "mainstreaming". They're not going to come out in debate with extreme ideology. What they do is present their beliefs in a way that appeals to those frustrated with the political status quo.
That debate is literally intended to "soften people up" for recruitment. And I know people want to believe others will see through the manipulation, but unfortunately, human psychology tells us otherwise. Cults know this. The alt-right knows this. We have to accept it.
And I know some people will try to argue with me about this, so I can only say: research cults and their recruitment methods. They, like members of the alt-right, are very well trained to deal with a skeptical audience. They *want* to manipulate you into debating them.
(I know a bit about cults; my grandfather is the leader of one. He is Extremely Good at debate.)
Since I have people mentioning the numbers were wrong and Bannon lost, here's what's important to remember: he's not there to win the debate. If you, or someone you know, has experienced a religious or ideological conversion, it doesn't happen in a single night. It's incremental.
The goal is never about "winning" the debate. It's about getting you to consider a point, concede on another, engage with the ideology. That's what I mean about "softening people up". The goal is to normalize it to you.
My grandfather does this by talking about his "community". They're all taken care of, he'd say. Everyone is fed. No one suffers. We support each other. We're like a village. He didn't talk about how his members gave all their cash to the cult. That they disconnected from family.
The real stuff comes much, much later when you're already entrenched in the ideology. When you've already become sympathetic. Because by then, it feels normal.
Thread by @_ElizabethMay: "Stop giving fascists a platform to debate. It's not a joke. The idea that they'll publicly embarrass themselves in front of an unsympathetic […]"
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