A long read but, imo, a *very* worthwhile opportunity for enlightenment!
“Macron's Folly: Why "Pacification" Guarantees Escalation - From Munich to Minsk: The West's Relentless Path to War with Russia”
by Raja Sohail Bashir in The Geopilitical Compass on Substack
IN THESE TIMES OF MASS PSYCHOSIS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoQDRMiV3Hs
Mechanics and History of How Leaders Use MASS PSYCHOSIS to Control You And Millions
this is the front line of the struggle for a free humanity.
#California #Dreaming: #Anatomy of #ConvictedFelon #DonaldTrump’s #Craziest #Lie.
“If we had an #honest #vote #counter, I would #win #California,” Trump #dreams
Why that’s #impossible, the #baroque #level of #delusion it takes to #believe that, and what the #absurdity says about where we are as a #country.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2024/09/30/california-dreaming-anatomy-of-trumps-craziest-lie/
Joseph arrived in 2022 after landing in Florida 2yrs earlier to escape violence in Haiti, journeying north on word of good job prospects. Oreus, after stops in Brazil, Portugal & Mexico over an 8yr stretch, was drawn to Springfield in 2023 by family & friends….
#debate #FactCheck #TrumpLies #delusion #derangement #weird
#HarrisWalz2024
Haitian immigrants fueled Springfield OH's growth - & now a US presidential #debate
Rose Joseph & Banal Oreus followed different paths from #Haiti to this struggling Midwestern industrial city that suddenly finds itself at the center of the #US presidential race.
#FactCheck #TrumpLies #delusion #derangement #weird #Trump
#Harris #HarrisWalz2024
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/haitian-immigrants-fueled-springfields-growth-now-us-presidential-debate-2024-09-11/
The #Trump admin did not include the alleged threat to the #Taliban *leader* in its ofcl comms about the deal the then-president struck in 2020 to bring troops out of #Afghanistan. Taliban spox Zabihullah Mujahid hasn’t responded to Trump’s story….
The AP has reported there was no 1½ year stretch during Trump’s presidency w/o combat deaths among #US #ServiceMembers.
#FactCheck #TrumpLies #delusion #derangement #weird #weirdAF
#Trump has talked about an “#Abdul” before in discussing the #Taliban. Trump in the past has said that then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo negotiated w/ “Abdul,” which could have bee a reference to top Taliban policy leader Abdul Ghani Baradar.
Baradar met w/ Pompeo in Qatar in 2020 & was among the group’s negotiators w/the Trump admin over the withdrawal of US troops from #Afghanistan.
#FactCheck #TrumpLies #delusion #derangement #weird #weirdAF
One more from #Dementia Land
> Trump’s Latest Conspiracy Is Evidence He’s in ‘Dementia Land
> Trump posted on Truth Social Sunday. “There was nobody at the plane, and she ‘A.I.’d’ it, and showed a massive ‘crowd’ of so-called followers, BUT THEY DIDN’T EXIST!” Lieu attacked the conspiracy theory during an appearance on MSNBC, saying that Trump was “really going bonkers off the edge into dementia land.”
Stupid Things People Say
When our adopted child began to experience delusions as a symptom of a serious mental illness, one of our neighbors told my wife that her pastor said such children had devil worshippers as parents. Months later, a member of a private Facebook group for parents of children with serious mental illnesses suggested as a behavioral intervention that I read to our child from the Left Behind book series. Twice, strangers offered to call the police when my wife was out shopping with our upset child. Please don't be like these people. Does anyone have similar experiences?
#Christianity
#Religion
#MentalHealth
#MentalIllness
#Delusion
#Psychosis
#VeraDrew and #GabeDunn Talk ‘#ThePeoplesJoker’ and the #Delusion of #Creating #Weird #Trans #Art.
The film was scheduled to premiere at the 2022 #TorontoInternationalFilmFestival but was #shuttered by #DC for “#rights #issues.” #Bans create #buzz you just can’t buy, so this resulted in the #hashtag #FreeThePeoplesJoker and a #campaign to get the #movie released as a #parody film.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #Movies #Representation #Culture
https://www.autostraddle.com/vera-drew-interview-the-peoples-joker/
May I add some hashtags in order to solicit views of psychologists and others who deal with human (or animal) cognitive modelling of reality? I would be fascinated to read about the degree to which we're all vulnerable to bias, the highest-yield methods of protecting oneself from bias (especially in social media), and of helping reflect back to others their own views in a way that lets them critique them. I think the last point is especially hard, especially if the other person has no desire for critical thinking (and as humans, we are terrible at critical thinking!).
If there are any textbooks on the subject, ideally written by scientists &/or aimed at scientists, I'd be keen as mustard to know about them!
If anyone has opinions on the work of Han, Lee, Wang, & Baldwin (librai fact checking automation - https://github.com/Libr-AI/OpenFactVerification ) I'd be all ears too.
Please feel free to boost this if you think answers might interest you.
Self-loathing, ignorant people who subscribe to this mindset are not only their own worst enemy but are enemies of democracy and pluralistic societies.
"In his closing pitch to Iowa Republicans, Trump says their votes can help him punish his enemies"
Trump: "These caucuses are your personal chance to score the ultimate victory over all of the liars, cheaters, thugs, perverts, frauds, crooks, freaks, creeps and other quite nice people...”
#Judge blocks #schooldistrict’s #transphobic #forced #outing #policy
The judge said the policy lacks “a #clearpurpose." Garza also noted that the #conservative #evangelical #schoolboard described #genderidentity as a “#delusion” and a “#mentalillness” when discussing the #Hateful #policy.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/09/judge-blocks-school-districts-transphobic-forced-outing-policy/
