Couldn’t they just tweak everyone, like Aunt Mackie, Bran, Carlene? And now they live in a suburb of Detroit? :P

Remember when he did porn!? Those were wild days.

please do it

Reading this is gut-wrenching. The blank, lifeless expression on her face... the absence of emotion in her eyes. That is truly frightening.

Some of my friends in college joined a traditionally black fraternity that literally branded new members. Their explanations sounded exactly like those in this story.

Okay, gotcha. To that, I would note that all cults profess to be about empowering the individual even as they subsume their victims into the collective. This was just a feminist variation on the theme.

In spirit, isnt branding yourself a slave while yelling female empowerment, kinda similar to gutting the EPA while yelling your the ecofriendliest ever? Forget it, I give up. Everything just sucks right now.

Mack worked on Smallville, which is filmed in Vancouver. In Canada, “slave contracts” are not valid, and according to Canadian law, one cannot consent, even through a contract, to physical abuse, so she could potentially be looking at decades in prison if the Canadians decide they want to do something about this.…

No. Not really. They gave ‘collateral’ or scandalous information beforehand so any argument at consent would be tainted by coercion.

I’m not quite sure what some women think empowerment really is. Seems to me like someone’s mind is clearly mangled.

Well, it sorta sounds like Mack was a founding member of the sex cult aspect, so I guess the real question would be what kind of overlap was there between the two? And is the sex cult “DOS” aspect of NXwhatever the only super-sketchy part?

I still say that Kristin Kreuk (the other main actress from Smallville) knew more about the scams and abuse than she’s letting on. Kreuk had been in the cult for years before introducing Allison Mack to it, and claims she never knew about the sleazy stuff going on- yeah, right.

There’s a new cult in town called MAGA.

Wealthy White women, guys:

The Smallville actress asked him to “make her a great actress again,” and, like all members of DOS, was requested to give Raniere “collateral” to prove her loyalty. These were explicitly blackmail-worthy materials that would completely ruin her if made public.

They always are.

Just this am I had a long discussion online with a friend who gleamed over finishing Atlas Shrugged.. Ugh.

This story keeps getting nuttier. And what’s really fascinating— is the way Mack manages to separate the rhetoric between the Nxivm main group and the DOS subgroup, which on their faces are *completely* incompatible— yet she’s 100% committed to both.

I was gratified to notice KR wears very bad wigs.

yeah, they really need to notate is as “faux-Latin”