brainwashed people

Posted by $ Abaco 4 years, 6 months ago to Culture
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So, I recently spent some time with somebody very close to me. She used to be an expat, but came back to the US about 7 years ago. I've watched her transition radically in her thoughts since she came back. See...she watches CNN all the time in her retirement. I realized the depth of the dementia that can occur with this in our most recent conversations.

She showed me photos she took from her European vacation where she happened to visit a Nazi camp in Germany. Obviously, that's an example of one of the most sickening chapters in human history and a prime example of egregious use of force. She started to go off hinting that it's happening in America now (TDS...you know that acronym?) and I responded with, "You know they were socialists, right?" She went nuts. In a previous conversation Trump and impeachment came up. I stated, "Clinton was impeached." She denied that ever happened, even going so far to saw that the internet documentation of the event isn't true. This is somebody who I always saw as pretty intelligent.

Frightening...


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  • Posted by Solver 4 years, 6 months ago
    One day, if the socialist ever get supreme power to conquer the world, National Socialism will never have happened, and World War II will have been caused by westerners.
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  • Posted by mshupe 4 years, 6 months ago
    The indoctrination by the progressive cult is more severe than I thought. A former close friend, a young intelligent lady, told me three years ago that she supported Bernie Sanders because "he cares about people." Bear in mind, a few years before that she read We The Living on my encouragement. She even considered naming her daughter Kira. Someone has poisoned her mind and she has no idea about Sanders.
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    • Posted by $ 4 years, 6 months ago
      I have a close friend like this - a beautiful, intelligent, college instructor with three great kids. She has been a Bernie supporter yet, like me, puts parental rights on the top of her priority list. The contradiction became too glaring and she recently wrote a letter to our governor telling him she's leaving the party. Evidence and reason...If you are truly intelligent it's simply too difficult to ignore.
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  • Posted by PeterSmith 4 years, 6 months ago
    You know Trump is also a socialist, right?
    And a nationalist too, right?

    She wasn't wrong in her comparison. You need to read the Ominous Parallels by Peikoff and do some independent thinking on this subject, not mindlessly go along with the Trump cultists.
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    • Posted by $ 4 years, 6 months ago
      What subject? Trump? I don't follow Trump. I didn't vote for him and I have no idea what he is. That's why I wasn't talking about him. She was. Now, you are. He may be a socialist. Does Peikoff say I should turn in my guns?...
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        Posted by PeterSmith 4 years, 6 months ago
        "What subject? Trump?"
        Yes.

        "I didn't vote for him and I have no idea what he is. That's why I wasn't talking about him. She was."
        Right, but then why are you concluding that she isn't intelligent if you're conceding you don't know anything about this anyway?

        "Does Peikoff say I should turn in my guns?..."
        No, but he tells you to think in principles, not in random positions, on random issues.
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