I saw the fucking video, Holden Bloodfeast’s hip just snapped as he was walking

I love that Skelator is slowly coming into his own as a low key voice of reason. Or is this the Overton Window?

I’m in mine :)

Interesting. I suppose I have seen that in film before but never in a book. Pretty cool though

Hey, at least his mom is almost the same age as him. They’ll have so much in common

Ooh, that’s not bad. I think I used to do something similar in highschool when looking at a book I was uncertain I had the willpower to finish. It definitely helped with Shogun.

So I guess the author of Kingpin was literally telling you to go straight to the end of Kingpin. I wonder which books I have sitting on my shelf now that this might help with

Dude’s firing ordinance into your state to show that he can shoot whoever he wants but go off king. Rip into 'em

I just know you’re funny and post 2meirl4meirl type stuff

Basically at this point I need something spoiled to me by a literary analyst just to be able to tell if it’s worth my time.

I don’t think your brain sucks I think our ability to enjoy art now is just hamstringed by the unending glut of designed-by-comittee trash and the time demands of late stage capitalism

This is what I used to do on reddit but it pissed off the control freak mods so I’m afraid to do it here. But I should have limited my engagement like you’re doing instead of just showing up to places to keep doing “le epic hot takes” and be a stupid little main character

HEY I USED DO TO THAT JOB :DDDD

Ooh, thanks. I’ve given up on trying to debunk things to people who’s reality has become highly subjective and vibes based. But I’m going to look at that book anyway. Inoculation is the tactic I’ve been using with my family to try and keep them out of pitfalls and I definitely swear by that

Jawn Louis is the channel’s name. He escaped the Jehovah’s Witness church and talked about being groomed into it as a child and how he got out. It’s just one guy’s anecdotal evidence but he does have the valid experience of actually been born into a high control group and his advice aligns with what’s been proven to help people heal from escaping those groups.

I’ve got anecdotes about deradicalizing people or I got links to videos about how the gotcha approach doesn’t work. I’m a terminally online anarchist so unfortunately my knowledge stems from terminally online spaces.

Beyond that what we have to go by is studying high control groups in the past and trying to better educate ourselves on how they operate.

My favorite example are Jehovah’s Witnesses. My favorite video about their inner workings has been removed but there’s a lot of documentaries about people who have escaped. Instead This is a channel that highlights the psychological tactics used by high control groups to erode people’s sense of reality and separate them from their families.

Innuendo Studios has a video about the grooming process into MAGA and a series on the mental gymnastics they’re using to stay radicalized. It’s important if you want to understand why the people in your life aren’t responding to being talked to like adults.

This is an oversimplification by an “enlightened centrist” who does actually do a great job of prescribing the best advice for trying to engage in debate theatrics: Stop and move on.

Philosophy Tube is another terminally online leftist but that video describes the fractured models of reality that life in America creates and why you can’t just logic someone out of a worldview they didn’t logic themselves into. This one however probably comes the closest to actual prescriptive advice on how to deradicalize people and it only works on individuals you are personally close to anyway.

Again, I’m just a terminally online agoraphobe who’s only got personal stories about my loved one’s descent into MAGA schizoid shit. But all of the videos I linked have actual sources you could track down for further reading. Let me know if you’d like to hear the synopsis in my own uneducated words, I in no way expect anyone to watch all that bullshit.

Really hope this starts to sink in with people more. We really gotta evolve past trying to appeal to everyone’s reason and morality all the time.

The people trying to destroy public education dgaf if they look stupid or if you have a news article that proves they’re a hypocrite

Hey don’t do my boy Big Wheel like that

Yeah he’s on some other shit now. Strange to think that after all these years Alice Cooper finally got weird