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jestdotty641331d@Demolishun I been binge watching a podcast called "was I in a cult"
I'm noticing the internet doesn't really tell you what a cult is anymore
but the common theme in all these stories that regardless of the tactics, of which there are many and I find fascinating, the end goal is always to control other people. so you make them stupid to alternative forms of information, and then you feed them false information to create worldviews and beliefs that make people do what you want them to do
sometimes there's also emotional breakdown -- so you make people doubt themselves, or train them to have emotional reactions to things so that they do the requisite action around those things (for example fear or guilt so they feel afraid to eat food or talk to people, etc)
also a lot of them slander which was always wild to me because as soon as someone slanders I think they're the suspicious person
cults seem to happen naturally a lot through just one person exporting themselves & having issues
why must everything be a cult =-=
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