They try that and it fails. Reformed police are killing unarmed citizens every day. The solution is to take away their ability to hurt people.

They’re calling Biden a Socialist! It doesn’t matter what position any Democrat holds, because they’re going to lie about it.

Your comments on the subject have sort of been the missing piece to me in understanding NXIVM. The wealth apologia seems to have been the key teaching that got wealthy and successful people attending the cult, which in turn was a huge selling point in marketing the cult.

I think I like the take from Robert Evans, who covers a lot of evil people, is that we all have weaknesses that we might not even be aware of and there is potentially some kind of scam that could exploit that.

I felt the same way about season 1 and I think I’ll skip this season. Mushi-shi is an anime I want something Mandalorian to be modeled after. It’s serialized with a village of the week format and a subdued protagonist like Mandalorian. The key difference, to me, is that Mushi-shi makes the “side characters”  the…

I would have bought that before seeing the MLB glitch that turned a player into a bone hive. Now I get it

I wanna recommend my favorite chill out channel. Trucker cats, a trucker set up a camera, cat and cat bed in the passenger seat and it’s just low engine noises, American countryside and a cat. The only downside is the videos are only a few minutes long and not hours.

My polydactyly boy

I will say that given the LP memes my family has shared they do seem to have unique access to the boomer mind.

It’s absolutely wild. Even some of his former leaders talk about him like he’s a great guy laid low by his vices. I don’t know why none of the interviews have taken them aside to them “Keith is and has always been a womanizing pedophile. He’s a conman who operates pyramid schemes and his cult was entirely stolen…

It’s tough when they’re in a cult and both victim and perpetrators. I do 100% agree, CBC could have dug a little deeper into Edmondson. It sounds like the interview was anonymously emailed accusations rather than talking to people Edmondson had recuiter. Still, CBC comes across like a hostile high-power lawyer in…

For whatever its worth I really agree with the AV club’s article on Seduced and The Vow. I got the sense that Mark withheld material that would make him look bad and a recent interview with the creators suggests a closeness that prevented objectivity. In comparison Seduced follows India’s experience as a narrative…

Follow up, Seduced is so much better than The Vow. It has pacing, they also have cult and psychology experts to explain what was going. They actually delve into the beliefs and walk through how people got sucked in compared to The Vow where the first episode sets up Keith’s claims and then go straight to the…

You gotta hand it to his parents, they named him well. I wasn’t at all surprised to hear about his work on What the Bleep and involvement in Ramtha. I got the sense if it wasn’t some cult he’d just get cleaned out by a phone scammer.

The Behind the Bastards podcast mentioned the Randian aspect in their episodes. That seems to be the only aspect that makes any sense to me was Keith was telling successful people the best thing they could do to improve the world was continue being successful.

I’m in the same boat, struggling to find the will to finish the series. I’m also having a hard time reckoning The Vow with everything else I’ve read about the cult. The only conclusion I can draw is that Mark either had final cut by contract or by de facto in what video he offered and I think he hid the absurd stuff…

There’s a moment in Vow where Mark wants to go after people saying the cult was a cult and Keith reals him in and says it’s okay, because the want free thinkers. Clearly the truth was the filter was working in the opposite way, and I can’t help but think all the stupid stuff also acted as a filter. Keith is a genius?…

Update, he was jerkin it

I don’t think we saw Cain after his infection and given how his former twitter account is still downplaying corona I suspect signs of improvement were also lies. There’s still the secondary damage corona does the body tho!

It’s one of the really bleak aspects of the show for me. Every time Keith speaks it’s just the emptiest platitudes and I struggle to understand how anyone gets roped in by it. I re-listened to the Behind the Bastards episode on him and all of Keith’s supposed achievements are similarly vague.