May 18, 2025
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Today's Doonesbury cartoon.
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Some semi-coherent thoughts on people advocating for censorship and harassment online (especially in fandom spaces) as an ex-Jehovahโs Witnesses.
The Watchtower engages heavily in thought control, and has strict rules on fiction. Enjoying any fantasy or piece of media that โglorifies ungodly behaviorโ directly reflects the morals and desires of the member, or inevitably will. And at some point, they will be compelled to act upon that desire.
If you play violent video games, youโre a bad influence on others and may become violent irl. Watching soap operas and reading romance novels are the same as โcommitting adultery in your heart.โ Youโre not keeping your thoughts pure for Jehovah if you fantasize about a kinky, erotic scenario, and you will eventually enact it in real life. Youโre too weak to resist, after all. And if you donโt believe that, youโre just committing the sin of โindependent thinking.โ
Maybe itโs useful to ask: who is benefited by a demand for purity? Who is benefited when shaming and fear mongering are used in an attempt to stop people from engaging in the โwrongโ kind of fantasy or reading the โwrongโ kind of story? Does it actually make the world safer? Are there individuals in power who might find that treatment of people useful? To what end?
"Once you understand it, everything make sense.
>Eat the rich... from your mansion
>Save the planet... from your private jet
>Everyone is racist... while you fund the racism.
>Billionaires are evil... unless you fund our candidates.
>Words are violence... but my violence is actually speech
>Wrong pronouns are assault... but burning a courthouse in a protest is mostly peaceful
>We love immigrants... ๐ฎ๐ง๐ฅ๐๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฌ๐๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ฆ ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐๐ซ๐ญ๐ก๐'๐ฌ ๐๐ข๐ง๐๐ฒ๐๐ซ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ง ๐ฐ๐ ๐๐๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐๐๐ ๐ญ๐จ๐จ
>Democracy is sacred... unless we lose, then it was stolen by Russia, misinformation, or Elon
>Diversity is our strength... unless you're a Black conservative, then you're a race traitor who needs to be destroyed
>Tax the wealthy... while your foundation, your trust, and your three LLCs are structured specifically to avoid paying a dime of it
>Capitalism is oppression... posted from an iPhone, on a platform worth a trillion dollars, while wearing merch sold through the your merch store linked in your bio
๐๐ญ'๐ฌ ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐๐๐ค๐, ๐ข๐ญ'๐ฌ ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ๐๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ฌ๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ง๐๐ฅ๐๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ฆ๐จ๐๐ค๐๐ ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐จ ๐จ๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ฏ๐ข๐จ๐ง.
The doctrine is always designed so the cost lands on someone else.
The cashier pays for your protest. The suburban parents pays for your sanctuary city. The trade school kid pays for your student loan forgiveness. The taxpayer pays for your foundation's tax shelter. The working mom pays for your gas stove ban. The factory town pays for your Green New Deal. The girl on the swim team pays for your pronouns. The cop's widow pays for your bail reform.
๐๐ญ'๐ฌ ๐ ๐ฆ๐๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐ฏ๐, ๐๐ฏ๐ข๐ฅ, ๐๐จ๐ฌ๐ญ-๐ญ๐ซ๐๐ง๐ฌ๐๐๐ซ ๐จ๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐๐ญ๐๐ง๐๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐ฏ๐ข๐ฅ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ฒ ๐๐ซ๐ ๐ฉ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ , ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ซ๐๐ฅ."
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Matt Von Swol
ANDREW DOYLE: New "Misinformation" Plan By Government Advisors Is Deeply Orwellian
Andrew Doyle: This is an attack on democracy. Ultimately, that's what it is.
Toby Young: I'm Lord Young, General Secretary of the Free Speech Union. My guest on the Free Speech Union podcast this week is comedian and free speech campaigner Andrew Doyle. Like me, he's sounding the alarm about a little-noticed report. Commissioned by the Government Office for Science, it contains some alarmingly Orwellian proposals to stop us spreading what its authors call misinformation, but what most of us would call telling the truth.
Doyle: Phrases like, Imane Khelif is a man, that's the boxer who won in the women's boxing category at the 2024 Paris Olympics, which is almost certainly a statement of fact, is now in a column as an example of misinformation.
Young: And their ideas about how the government might psychologically reprogram us so we won't believe our lying eyes are even more alarming. We'll also be discussing government proposals to push us towards so-called trusted news sources, like the BBC and Channel 4 News, and why Andrew has joined fellow comedy writer Graham Linehan in exile in Arizona.
"The term brainwashing is often associated with overtly coercive behaviors, exemplified by the image of a prisoner at the hands of abusive jailers. With social influence, the agents of influence are viewed as friends or mentors, which causes people to lower their defenses. Social influence gives the illusion of control. The individual believes he is making his own choices, when in fact he has been influenced to disconnect his own critical and decision-making capacity.
SINGERโS CONDITIONS FOR THOUGHT REFORM
Gain control over a personโs time, especially his thinking time and physical environment.
Create a sense of powerlessness, fear and dependency, while providing models that demonstrate the new, ideal behavior.
Manipulate rewards, punishments and experiences to suppress the recruit รญs former social behavior and attitudes, including the use of altered states of consciousness to manipulate experience.
Manipulate rewards, punishments and experiences to elicit behavior and attitudes desired by leadership. Create a tightly controlled system with a closed system of logic, wherein dissenters feel their questioning indicates something inherently wrong with them.
Keep recruits unaware and uninformed that there is an agenda to control or change them. Thought-reform is impossible when a person is functioning at full capacity with informed consent."
Freedom of Mind by Steven Hassan. The Singer mentioned here is Margaret Singer, referencing her book Cults In Our Midst. (bolded by me)
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It's not easy, turning that fear energy into some other kind of energy, but I have to do it every few minutes or I'll be hyperventilating. I know I'm not alone. That's the glue that keeps me together. We're social creatures, so I'm overwhelmed when I hear that someone's been killed. Or another one caught with child pornography. I would like a weapon, sirs. No. I have to control my thoughts or they'll control me. I wish I had been taught that in elementary school.
Thought Control. Hypnotic and suggestive strategies that induce an altered state of consciousness are often used to reprogram peopleโs thoughts and memories. Other techniques to induce thought control range from hours of tedious, monotonous lectures several times a week where members must memorize and regurgitate the correct answers, to audible prayers, chanting, speaking in tongues, and meditation, in ways that reduce critical thinking. Eyes-closed visualizations and guided meditation techniques can allow a group to insert thoughts and beliefs into their members.
The ideology of authoritarian groups is typically all-or-nothing, black-and-white, us-versus-them, and good-versus-evil. Members believe the doctrine to be the ultimate โtruthโ that is sacred and scientific. Members learn โthought-stoppingโ techniques to keep themselves pure and resist evil thoughts. The language system of closed groups can be an actual dialect not shared by outsiders. โThought-terminating clichรฉsโ make complex ideas into platitudinous buzzwords known only by other members. Not all groups give members new names; however, when they do, it is a powerful technique that supports changes in the personโs identity.
Hardcore Leftist ideology and freedom of speech are (surprise!) apparently incompatible. Academiaโs attraction to state/institutional control of thought โfor the greater goodโ has turned higher education in America into a bad joke.
Alex Shieh, a student journalist at Brown University, asked questions about administrators' spending. Then the university investigated him.
