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   JP (jplebreton@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 02:54:13 JST JP

   never forget how this cult, exceptional only in its extremity, embodied the poisonously misguided conventional thinking of our current age, by elevating to godhood a man that many of us already knew was a fraud and a fool, and many more know now. never forget how much people equate wealth with intelligence and worthiness and how deeply that harms our society.
   https://web.archive.org/web/20211026235448/https://medium.com/@zoecurzi/my-experience-with-leverage-research-17e96a8e540b

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     clarity flowers (clarity@xoxo.zone)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 02:54:13 JST clarity flowers

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     @jplebreton god I remember reading this when it came out and thinking about how lucky I was not to have been caught by people like this at a more vulnerable age. Young socially isolated autistic people are so vulnerable to cults and it infuriates me seeing the process at work

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     clarity flowers (clarity@xoxo.zone)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 03:56:43 JST clarity flowers

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     @emenel @jplebreton Honestly imo/ime a significant percentage of these cult victims don't really care about being part of an elite, they just have a desire to be useful and to make the world better and to feel like there's a place where they belong, and have no real tools for comparing/evaluating ideologies or noticing when they're being used. The "elite" schtick is imposed to isolate them from people who might help pull them out.

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     JP (jplebreton@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 03:56:44 JST JP

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     @clarity yeah. and the cults that are centered around Being the Most Intelligent are this massive source of validation telling people their neurodiversity makes them a kind of elite

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     emenel (emenel@post.lurk.org)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 03:56:44 JST emenel

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     @jplebreton @clarity it’s basically the foundation for all of TESCREAL beliefs and systems…

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     clarity flowers (clarity@xoxo.zone)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 05:24:53 JST clarity flowers

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     @emenel @jplebreton yeah for sure

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     emenel (emenel@post.lurk.org)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 05:24:55 JST emenel

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     @clarity @jplebreton oh absolutely. i just mean that the ideologies that these tech/SV cults are using/indoctrinating are largely coming from the tescreal set of beliefs...