Tumgik
#groupthink
sepdet · 5 months
Text
Remember when some redditors propped up Gamestop stock to prank Wall Street traders…
only to become an apocalyptic cult, appointing the failed CEO of a pet supply shop as their oracle
and themselves as the righteous faithful out to expose Wall Street corruption through the beleaguered vessels of Gamestop and Bed Bath and Beyond, whose second coming will crash the market and allow the real (not fake) stock owners to exploit a glitch that grants them infinite money, lets them hold the world monetary system to ransom, forces the US government to accede to all their demands, anoints them god-kings, and transforms the world.
Tumblr media
No really. This is a comic, tragic, what-the-fuck-is-happening-you-can't-be-serious-oh-hell-they-are-serious video that I highly recommend, along the same lines as that "A BOOMERANG!" takedown of Sherlock. It's funny but it's long, good background for knitting, phone games, or doing chores.
youtube
(The author's "Line Go Up" vid on crypto and nfts is also amazing— but more sobering, as their cultists proponents really do have some impact on the real world.)
20 notes · View notes
sidewalkchemistry · 10 months
Text
Exposing Scientific Dogmas: Rupert Sheldrake's Banned TED Talk
The talk was reshared again in a video by the YouTube channel "After Skool." It was based on his book The Science Delusion.
Here are the 10 Scientific Dogmas he listed (which could prevent science from greater discoveries and true scientific thinking since they create the default worldview of people worldwide):
#1 Nature is mechanical
#2 Matter is unconscious
#3 The laws of nature are fixed
#4 The total amount of matter and energy is always the same
#5 Nature is purposeless
#6 Biological hereditary is material
#7 Memories are stored inside your brain as material traces
#8 Your mind is inside your head
#9 Psychic phenomena like telepathy are impossible
#10 Mechanistic medicine is the only kind that really works
Tumblr media
53 notes · View notes
Text
ᴰᵒⁿ'ᵗ ᵏⁿᵒʷ ʸᵒᵘ, ᴵ ⁿᵉᵛᵉʳ ᵏⁿᵉʷ ʸᵒᵘ, ᵂᵒᵘˡᵈⁿ'ᵗ ˡⁱᵏᵉᵈ ᵗᵒ ᵐᵉᵉᵗ ᵗʰᵉ ʳᵉᵃˡ ʸᵒᵘ, ᴵᶠ ᴵ ᵈⁱᵉ ʰᵉʳᵉ ˢʷᵉᵃʳ ᵗʰᵉ ᵗʷᵒ ᵒᶠ ʸᵒᵘ, ᴮᵉ ᵈᵃⁿᶜⁱⁿᵍ ᵒⁿ ᵐʸ ᵍʳᵃᵛᵉ.🪦
-ᴺᵒᵗ ᵐʸ ᵇᵃᶜᵏᵍʳᵒᵘⁿᵈ ᵖⁱᶜᵗᵘʳᵉ
18 notes · View notes
Text
youtube
Detransition: School Indoctrination, Bullying, Testosterone Damage, and Healing - Jade Martin
Chloe: What was your life like before you transitioned?
Jade: Well, I socially transitioned at 12. So, my life before that, I was the girliest girl ever, the most stereotypical little girl that you can imagine. I loved princesses and dolls and fairy tales. I was just very girly. But I was also heavily bullied, from the minute I was entered into kindergarten, I was isolated. I don't know why. I think it's because I was awkward and had social anxiety but, I was bullied up until I hit puberty.
Chloe: Why was that?
Jade: I don't know. They would pick at me for random stuff, my eyebrows or having bug eyes, being tall. I wasn't tal, I mean, the bullying picked up when I hit puberty, because the other girls hadn't gone through what I was going through. I was growing hair and a chest. And I didn't want to wear a bra because I was uncomfortable so it just made them stand out more. And I was growing fast. I mean it was obvious that I had hit puberty and that's what I was bullied for.
Chloe: It's hard enough dealing with developing so much and so quickly at a young age. And then like the social element of your peers pointing it out and bullying you for it, has to make it all the more difficult. How did that affect your your view of yourself? Did it affect the way that you saw being a woman and femininity?
Jade: Definitely. I was scared. I didn't know what it was. When I first got my period, I thought I was dying. I was that little I was nine years old. And no fault to my mom, you know, what parent thinks their daughter is going to get their period that young? And I grew up teaching my older cousins about their periods, which was crazy because they were like 14. They got theirs at like 14, 13, 12, but I was nine.
Chloe: And you're the one telling them about it.
Jade: Yeah. And now they're the first ones to have kids, and I don't. Not yet. But it was uncomfortable. Not the puberty itself. I think I was scared at the very beginning but after that I got used to it. I wasn't ready to grow up. I still wanted to play with dolls, and hitting puberty is growing up so I I feel like...
Chloe: There's just too much, too soon.
Jade: Yeah, it was too much, too soon. And about one or two years later, the kids in my class hit puberty. They all grew taller than me. That's another thing they picked on me for was being tall. Five-three. I'm not tall. So eventually they towered over me. I stopped being the tall freak that was taller than the teachers. Their breasts grew bigger than mine. I was this freak that got her period and had to change her pads in the middle of class, but suddenly they were growing faster and acting promiscuous and having sex and kissing and making out. Mind you, this was when they were like 11, 12.
Chloe: That's pretty early.
Jade: I was freaked out. My perception of romance and love when I was little was what you see on Disney, like fairy tale stuff. You know, a prince comes to sweep me up and he takes me to his castle and we get married and he courts me, pretty much. I didn't think that love was dressing in small clothes to get a boy's attention or stuffing your bras or having sex. That scared me. Not only did I grow up too fast because my period came earlier than everybody else, but now I was being pressured to grow even more. And that was uncomfortable. I forced myself to stop playing with dolls, and I didn't want to. So, that did affect my relationship with being a woman, the over-sexualization.
Chloe: But how did that then turn into wanting to become a boy, not believing that you're a woman? What was the turning point?
Jade: The turning point was the internet. It was Tumblr, it was Instagram, it was YouTube. I didn't even know what transgender was until I went on the internet. And the only reason I had been on there was because I had no friends. I would have a single friend here and there, but at the end of the day I was alone. I didn't go out and play with other kids, I didn't invite them over. When I went online, I found these stories of fictional characters that I had enjoyed. YouTubers. And both of these characters were male, and teenagers and adults online would write these stories about these two men falling in love. And that appealed to me because it was love, but without being a woman. And alongside that there were also people online telling me that I could be one of those guys. I could become a boy and experience that kind of love.
Chloe: Were you interacting directly with those people at the time?
Jade: Some of them, yes. Some of them were posts and group chats. But yes, I was talking to adults at a very young age.
Chloe: What exactly would they say?
Jade: We would share those interests. So if we were into two male YouTubers and we paired them up together. We were in group chats together. And that's how we would talk. And that's how I was introduced to transitioning, and I slowly fell into a hole of transition videos. And my gut was telling me that it was off and it was wrong, but you know, this was the answer. I could finally be a real boy. I don't have to try to earn love by being sexual. I can be these two gay men in fiction and be loved for who I am and not for my appearance.
Note: Helena Kerschner has a very well laid out and argued hypothesis about the influence of fandoms, which is worth a look: "Trans, Tumblr & Fandom"
11 notes · View notes
falkonryderz · 2 months
Audio
Listen/purchase: Groupthink by Smoke
Tumblr media Tumblr media
4 notes · View notes
bideogaymes · 1 year
Text
Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media
the irony being this being harassment from majority 20 something year old adult Black women is… not lost on me. ive got hundreds of them attacking my weight, looks, sexuality etc all bc i qt a news post being surprised that Erykah Badu collabing with kpop artists.
“artists these days just be saying yes to anything”
the fact a whole group of adult women who never followed me (i rarely talk about kpop outside of what tracks i like), took it as a personal attack or character assassination of their fave is so sick. when my post was more of a commentary on Erykah and the music industry as a whole in this modern time. it’s the fact i said anything remotely other than positive simply involving the Asian men they fetishize and lust after, gives them the go to be online abusers & mobs. 🙄
you know that thing about narcissistic abusive ppl using inane arguments not grounded in reality to force you to redirect energy to establish the basics of what happened over and over again? and trying to control you via destroying your public image with other ppl to further isolate you & validate their abuse? not the first time a fandom or the cult of a social media personality (often “leftist” accounts ironic enough) has went out of their way to collectively try to “humble” me.
im naturally inquisitive and questioning and that can be a double edged sword when dealing with hate bc ill actually consider the possibility of their truth being my truth which honestly toxic thoughts being validated by toxic abusive ppl. being hyper visible is lame and not fun if you’re not a mega influencer, entertainer, or creative.
anyway bc of previously mentioned inquisitiveness, i looked to put words and definitions and meaning to what i have been experiencing since due to my neuro-divergence, i have difficulty naming out right even when i KNOW it’s happening. & duh that’s by design of the narcissist’s will. i not only seek too self soothe but to understand as well.
Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media
37 notes · View notes
imkeepinit · 10 days
Text
Tumblr media
2 notes · View notes
Text
Tumblr media
3 notes · View notes
youtube
Track of the day // Groupthink & Abra - Gold On Me
2 notes · View notes
aowski · 2 months
Text
“People inside of belonging systems are very threatened by those who are not within that group. They are threatened by anyone who has found their citizenship in places they cannot control.” —Fr Richard Rohr 
3 notes · View notes
ex-cogtfi · 4 months
Text
This is part two of a look at the context of the word “security” in the cult.
The Family International (formerly the Children of God and the Family of Love) have spent over 50 years avoiding prosecution for their crimes, conning donors, and developing and honing strategies to handle legal attacks and combat public criticism.
They’ve worked to create a carefully curated image of a wholesome missionary group, misunderstood by the public and maligned by detractors. Through setting up charitable fronts, befriending people with influence, and coaching members to practice the doctrine of “deceivers yet true”, TFI have attempted to publicly distance themselves from policies that resulted in the physical, sexual, and emotional abuse of children. TFI has been so successful in their rebranding campaigns and coverups that they were invited to perform at the White House during the administrations of two United States presidents.
Meanwhile, TFIs internal publications show that the cult’s leadership have no remorse for the harms they have and continue to cause. Internal documents by the current leader and co-founder Karen Zerby explicitly state that the cult still believes there is nothing inherently wrong with adult-child sex and adult-child sexual interactions.
(The content of these posts has been adapted and excerpted from articles on exfamily.org, especially “The Family - Official Policy on Lying & Deception”. Underlining is consistent with the original cult publications.)
Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media
4 notes · View notes
immaculatasknight · 4 months
Link
How to abort a scientific renaissance
2 notes · View notes
Quote
That means that, ironically, the most individualistic people will likely be those who make it known the loudest just how much more "collectivist" they are than the next man, with extreme exaggeration being the obvious mark of the faker.
Edward Dutton.
41 notes · View notes
ophelia-network · 2 years
Text
Tumblr media
"Like a man who has been dying for many days, a man in your city is numb to the stench." Chief Seattle
Birds of a Feather... by Alexandra Manukyan
21 notes · View notes
ankhmeanswombman · 1 year
Text
#ConstantPropaganda steam for the train of thought held by the group/CULTure. Think tanks are easy to control. Believe nothing you hear and half of what you see in this #InvertedPatrix we call reality. Reality is just a group dream understood by/through the 5 senses. Those who sense things beyond that which is sensed by the hive and its shared 5 senses are mocked and derided, for being tuned into a different version of reality. But what lies beyond the 5 senses, perhaps the ability to control what is felt/seen/heard by others... CERN switched on the Hadron Collider right around the time #StrangerThings season 4 was released. The internet was also discovered there in the late 80s. There is a Shiva statue outside CERN premises. They are playing with reality and unlocking hidden worlds. #ScienceIsBlackMagic and whether thats good or bad depends on which brain hemisphere you're using to dissect/process the information given. We all have the #YinYang #GoodEvil duality within us.
9 notes · View notes
silencemachine · 2 years
Text
Tumblr media
hive mentality / groupthink
12 notes · View notes