Thanks for the link, Spring!
(Are you saying yer guns aren't spring loaded?)
m.
On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 12:36 PM Spring (Stacy) Dew <springdew@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
I haven't had much of a look, since I'm supposed to be working, hahaha so
little focus right now, but this is interesting.
https://freedomofmind.com/how-to-rescue-a-loved-one-from-a-cult-the-strategic-interactive-approach/
In other news, I'm taking some time off this week to go down to the range
and get my firearms sighted in. Four of them have never been fired and the
fifth never fired by me. I don't expect to need them, but better to have
and not need than need and not have. I'm supremely rusty at all of this and
will have to watch a lot of videos to prepare.
Spring
On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 3:10 PM Marya F <maryaf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Spring -- I can't stop thinking of that since I read it when your email
first came in.
Yes -- we all need to be studying/learning this now.
I am open to learning about anything anyone reads about this. Please
share!
On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 9:32 AM Spring (Stacy) Dew <springdew@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
I too shrank from Rwanda. I did finally see a movie about it, and oh my
god.
I spoke with my mother the other day and she's so delusional, well it's
the same thing you hear everywhere. I've started looking into how to break
cult conditioning.
Spring
On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 4:17 PM Marya F <maryaf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hopefully it is a real awakening for them. I have to say I am also
surprised at how many of them are doubling-down. Five days later and I am
still hearing how this was antifa.
Antifa is their word for the bogeyman and they don't even realize.
So... I never followed the Rwanda thing because it was too gruesome. I
know that is a fault of mine. Because of that, I wasn't familiar with Radio
Rwanda -- maybe you all were more aware? And how because it was allowed to
continue to spew hate, lies and calls for violence many more people were
killed than would have been if it had been silenced.
Today I am seeing several people make the connected between Radio
Rwanda and all the tech companies shutting down the un-moderated social
media. I AM SO THANKFUL. I am so thankful. I am so thankful.
I hope this will help, though I am not sure if it will.
I saw that video you are talking about Scott. She's been owned pretty
good by the parody comics.
There is another video of a kid who is just confounded by the response
of the police/guards. Like, how could they not be on his side? He is such
an idiot. Like, forehead slapping idiot.
And it makes you realize how much education there is ahead of us. If we
are able to reach them at all.
m.
On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 10:15 AM Scott Ransom <mr.ransom@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
I continue to be drop-jawed, open-mouthed amazed at the downright
sheer stupidity of the insurrectionists.
I saw a Colbert segment where he showed some footage of some woman who
got maced pretty early on and went some ways away from the action to rinse
her face off with water, where a journalist was asking her what happened,
*on
camera*. She told the journalist the whole thing, about how they
were breaking in, and then the cops inside maced them, and then she went
off into a pretty indignant tirade about it. Then the journalist asked
her
what her name was and she gave not only her full name, but the city she
came from. When the journalist asked why she was breaking into the
Capitol
in the first place, she exclaimed "It's a revolution!" like the journalist
was an idiot for asking such an obvious question.
Well, there was certainly an idiot there, but I don't think it was the
journalist.
Apparently taking unmasked selfies and livestreaming ones own felonies
was kind of a group activity that day, but I'm sure things will (or
should)
play out at the individual level (which we are seeing some of even now).
I get the feeling that there were probably a bunch of people there,
who, for some reason, thought that storming the Capitol, smashing stuff
up,
stealing things, and so on, was a totally cool thing to take part in like
it was a Woodstock concert or something - something *awesome *that
you could say "*I was* *THERE*" about and it would just impress
everybody from now until forever. You could proudly wear red, white and
blue "I stormed the Capitol" t-shirts and everyone would love them. All
the participants could stand on a congress-person's desk, raise their
fists
in the air, yell "WOO HOO, WE WON!", get a selfie, and then they could
just
go home and get a good nights rest after the totally fun day.
I think the thought that they were actually committing real crimes
(and serious ones at that) didn't even occur to a substantial portion of
them. I don't think the thought that because five people died AND there
are numerous shots of different people holding handfuls of zip-ties
throughout the building and loudly asking "Where's Pence, where's the
senators?" AND that there actually was a (probably incompetently built)
gallows constructed right outside the building would be something *they
*were responsible for *too *occurred to them. But guess what? Being
part of a mob doesn't mean responsibility is diffused. It just means it's
widely shared.
A lot of them were there for teh lulz, but I for one don't think that
excuses anybody. You wanted lulz, see how many you get in prison.
Because
that's where every single one of those assholes belong. Stupidity just
isn't an excuse for waging war on your own country. I mean, the stupidity
is kind of inseparably built into it.
Scott
