The desire to change your mind is how they manipulate you to stay. It's also designed to rile up people now opposed to you and make them more hostile to the idea that you genuinely changed your mind. You're less likely to be accepted, so you're less likely to leave.

This puts a heavy moral tax on the ability to leave the cult. If you admit that what was being done was wrong, you admit you are no longer a part of the group. You risk connection, health, stability, and your sense of loyalty is corrupted to compel you morally to remain. Tying moral failure to

In a cult, we see people we believe have the same goals as us and feel compelled to support them however they ask. That's how it's so easy to lie to followers and convince them of things that aren't true - to continue to belong, they must play by the rules or risk being stripped of belonging.

Much cheaper! That's a fun way to do it.

I would have done a roasted tea like genmaicha or lapsang,, personally. Can you use loose leaf or do you need to use tea bags? I got you on a source for loose leaf lapsang and I can send you some genmaicha via mail

Yup! I noticed alright. Target regulators so he can't lose money by being regulated for his very very dangerous product and he keeps selling. What a cool guy! 🙃

And stoo making being gay the butt of the joke. Homophobia is a tool of white supremacy to undermine class consciousness though strict interpretations of gender and sexuality. Don't let people goad you into oppressing someone else for them.

And to add to that, I dont need some weird gay porn shit about Trump and <insert other power misogynist> and it sure as hell is insulting as a gay person that people think it's funny. I get the "joke" it's just bad. Ffs he just hates women and we should focus on why THAT is wrong.

And no, it's not my job to "be nice about it" to make a man who thinks if he can't fuck me I should die feel better about not getting his pole waxed for social validation. Eat my hot fudge sundae, asswagon.

Sad as hell what's app was bought by bookface

Which, yeah, that's the point of right wing politics over the last 20-30 years - divide and conquer. It's why the grifter-to-right wing darling pipeline is so effective. It's the greed and the selfishness.

Sorry, I didn't mean the head of the FAA ceding contracts to Musk was a good idea. My abstract thought was that it's disingenuous to see Musk as a person lacking intelligence. He's not. He just doesn't have the competency to back his ideas and has decided gull tilt greed is just more beneficial

This is insane. Wired is always more reliable than wireless. Always. People will DIE. Sure, the equipment needs upgraded, but replaced by something less efficient that isn't even programmed to work with existing FAA software?! You can have good ideas and still be fundamentally stupid.