Notices by RustyBertrand (rustybertrand@mastodon.social), page 3

@andymouse
They found mass graves in the US. Missing kids were buried without notifying the parents. #acab

https://www.complex.com/life/a/brad-callas/215-bodies-buried-missippi-jail-investigation

Same eyes in cult documentaries.

I escaped #TheChildrenOfGod at 17. We were the same. Glazed, shallow eyes, too happy, too brainwashed to connect any dots.

It's some kind of dissociation. I used to call it "eyes and teeth" in my mind. There is no humanity, if in attack mode, you repeat yourself and laugh.

cont...

The Israeli soldiers committing #genocide have the same vapid glee of the Manson killers. #cult

One is only safe once back inside the compound.

Then you erase the memory. But thrive on the dissonance, how awful they were, how much they wanted to destroy you. Cults thrive on hate. It's why isolating you and separating you from family is the number one rule.

Then you get love bombed by your "chosen community" Reinforcing the brainwashing.

#cult
#deathcult

Legit

OK real question.

Do people really see their place in the universe? Like a reverse google zoom, as knowledge is added?

Or is the norm kind of small picture? Like u at the centre?

Smaller than earth? Smaller than your country? Your town? Omg!

Got some white wine. Haven't drank in a while. Let's see if I get stupid.

”So in everything: power lies with those who control finance, not with those who know the matter upon which the money is to be spent. Thus, the holders of power are, in general, ignorant and malevolent, and the less they exercise their power the better.”

— Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays (1928): Freedom and Society, p. 153

Smells like corn teen spirit

Cobain called! He says you're stupid and contagious.

I need a defibrillator. STAT!

"Their final objective... using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.”

How it started. How it's going.

"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them."

-Phillip K. Dick

Don't let your children wrestle Gerrit Jan!

@EVDHmn
Hard to trust officials these days.

I wanna talk to those two space bears.

Today is the 50th anniversary of the Skylab "strike." Astronauts protested micromanagement, employer spying, & long hours. They demanded a day off, regular breaks, and greater workplace autonomy. Radios off, they floated around, enjoying space, and taking photos of Earth. #NASA gave in to their demands after one day.

Edit:
"Strike or no strike, the tensions between the crew and ground control were real. A crisis meeting between the two parties was called on 30 December." -BBC

#space

“Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be—or to be indistinguishable from—self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time.”

― Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon

Who made obedience a virtue?

I'm bringing the acid!

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