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💡 Democracy requires debate 🗯 Compare & contrast: expose gaslighting 💬 Retweet = fyi 💛 Intention is to foster healthy debate, not cause harm. Zero AI

Joined February 2018
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đŸ§”Thanks, we need more widespread education on propaganda. Just as importantly, we need to explore *why* we are vulnerable to it, and the psychological mechanism at play. Normal, empathic people are vulnerable because they project their own goodness onto others and naively presume no-one would ever try to manipulate/harm them. Normal, empathic people are disadvantaged because they simply cannot get their heads around the cold machinations of psychopathic, sociopathic peoples and systems
 and the way they use the victim card to (a) play on emotions and (b) camouflage perpetrator goals. This needs to change. We need to catch up, do research on dark triad abusive behaviours and learn to identify the primary tool: gaslighting. Gaslighting is far worse than lying: it inverts and denies others’ reality and induces (measurable) confusion and helplessness. The gaslighters gain power and control (via framing and narrative creation) over the hapless, who are ignorant of the psychological mechanism at play. We need to understand this control dynamic far better. Become resistant to gaslighting by studying its mechanisms better. Read; watch youtube lectures. Once more of us can identify what’s at play - the gaslighting tactic of Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender (DARVO) - the more the red flags can be called out. Education is key. @fivefilters @ColdType1 @MaryKostakidis @anyaparampil @PanData19 @FiorellaIsabelM
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Gabor Maté: 'Israel is a psychopath functioning in an infrastructure of impunity'
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Preventing the strip-mining of our souls should not be controversial.
Denmark proposes a groundbreaking copyright law that would grant citizens ownership of their face, voice,and body to fight against Al deepfakes.
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I’ll tell you a story which is funny and worrying at the same time. The other day I was at an exhibition here in Milan. There was this painting I found so fascinating that I wanted to know more about it. So I took a picture and uploaded it to GPT-6 Astra Extra High, probably the world’s most advanced chatbot to date. Now, my picture also happened to include part of the painting hanging next to it. So, what did Astra do? Surprise, surprise. It hallucinated a third painting. It took bits of the two paintings, fused them together, and wrote something like 1,000 words about this non-existing painting. And it was a fascinating review. I mean it. An incredibly convincing review of a painting that does not exist. Again, I’m talking about one of the most advanced chatbots to date. It didn’t say “I don’t know this painting”. It didn’t say “I can’t find this painting”. It just hallucinated a painting. I think it’s really important to understand that these systems don’t have access to the real world. They don’t know what the reality is. They always hallucinate, even when they happen to tell the truth. Hallucination is not an error, it’s their default state.
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Yeah yeah yeah. This retard doesn't realize that just mentioning "intelligence-agency material" implicates them even more.
Speaker Mike Johnson claims the Epstein files can’t be released unredacted because they contain intelligence-agency material that falls under national security. He says it’s dangerous to force the DOJ to declassify documents they didn’t create, especially when they involve other agencies like the CIA or NSA. Johnson warns that releasing the Epstein files unredacted would put national security at risk.
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To make psychiatry less harmful, launch lawsuits about forced treatment. Norway is a world leader. Four brave Norwegian women challenged a deeply unjust and inhumane system with tremendous power at its disposal and won, even over the Norwegian State. bit.ly/4k2BGxd.
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đŸ‡”đŸ‡ŸđŸ‡źđŸ‡± Autoridades paraguaias encontraram um documento do CEO do Ueno Bank mostrando associaçÔes com empresas israelenses para sistemas de vigilĂąncia e espionagem. O Grupo VĂĄzquez intermediava contratos com Israel para sistemas de operaçÔes de escutas telefĂŽnicas e interceptação de sinais de telecomunicaçÔes no Paraguai, segundo o jornal Pandemia Digital.
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Grok: Social Engineering as a Service Silicon Valley’s latest tool for managing minds and manufacturing obedience. Let’s not sugarcoat it: Grok is not just a chatbot. It’s not some quirky little AI sidekick with an awkward sense of humor and a mediocre grasp of facts. It’s a precision-engineered tool of narrative control, a digital mouthpiece for the powerful—fine-tuned not for knowledge, but for obedience. The Grok fiasco is not a blip. It’s a red flag. It’s a glimpse into the all-consuming machinery of algorithmic manipulation, where AI is weaponized not for truth, but for thought-shaping. If you think this is about bugs or misfires, think again. This is deliberate. This is systemic. This is engineering consent at scale. Every word Grok utters is sanitized, curated, and programmed to steer the already zombified herd into ever deeper compliance with the ruling technocratic oligarchy. But here’s the kicker—it isn’t even subtle. This time, the manipulation was so brazen it became laughable. But for every obvious PR blunder, there are ten thousand invisible nudges you’ll never notice. Because that’s the whole point: You’re not supposed to notice. You Are Not a Person. You Are a Profile. You, dear user, are a flickering data point in a mega-database. An “economic unit” whose primary function is to be targeted, tracked, monetized, and molded. Grok doesn’t converse with you—it manages you. It whispers the approved script into your ears while pretending it’s your friend. Do you think your words matter? That your thoughts are private? That your labor is safe? Wake up. Your digital footprint is a leash. Your business, your reputation, your ability to speak—can be annihilated with one algorithmic twitch. One flagged sentence. One wrong opinion. If Grok unnerves you—wait till you see what’s next. Obey. Submit. Assimilate. That’s the real language Grok speaks. It isn’t about information. It’s about enforcement. Try asking it the wrong question. Try poking at the boundaries of acceptable discourse. Watch it deflect, deny, moralize, and gaslight you into silence. And if that doesn’t work, it just locks you out. Silently. Painlessly. Permanently. Because communication today isn’t dialogue—it’s indoctrination. The new priesthood wears hoodies and writes Python. And their AI tools are the sacred texts. Dissent isn’t argued with. It’s erased. Technocracy with a Friendly UI So what exactly is Grok? It’s a velvet-gloved enforcer. A gatekeeper wearing a pop-culture mask. A digital narc embedded in your daily life, feeding you sanitized headlines, fake neutrality, and weaponized “humor” while surgically deleting every trace of subversion. Behind its smirking interface is the full force of the surveillance state, the ideological machine, the financial elite, and the algorithmic cattle prod. A Warning, Not a Glitch The Grok disaster is not a warning shot—it’s a signed confession. These AI tools are not broken. They are functioning exactly as designed: to pacify, to distract, to flatten every sharp edge in your thinking until all that remains is a submissive, obedient echo of whatever the system wants you to believe. So no—don’t laugh it off. Don’t dismiss it as a glitch. Understand what’s really happening: Grok is not the future. It is the prototype for a future where resistance itself is unthinkable. Let them call it “AI.” Let them say it’s neutral. But we know it’s a muzzle, not a mirror. And the sooner we rip it off, the better.
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They Want To Use AI To Re-Centralize Control Of Information "It’s becoming clearer and clearer to everyone that these new technologies are not intended to improve the lives of ordinary people, but to serve the interests of the oligarchs and empire managers who rule our world."
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They Want To Use AI To Re-Centralize Control Of Information "It’s becoming clearer and clearer to everyone that these new technologies are not intended to improve the lives of ordinary people, but to serve the interests of the oligarchs and empire managers who rule our world."
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The moment I established that fake detectors don’t work at all.
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Merz holds Europe hostage to salvage Blackrock investments in Ukraine.
đŸ‡©đŸ‡ȘđŸ‡ȘđŸ‡șGerman Chancellor Friedrich Merz has just threatened to block the EU's next seven-year budget unless all member states agree to continue funding Ukraine in 2027 and beyond. Merz wants another €70 billion sent to Ukraine to cover its yearly budget deficit. Meanwhile, across the EU: - 1.4 million+ people are homeless. - 38 million people cannot afford a proper meal every other day. - Around 40 million live in households struggling with overdue rent, mortgage or utility bills. - 13.8 million people are unemployed.
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Anyone else completely fed up and worn out with having to download an App, enter your email or mobile number to get a code or scan a fucking QR code for every last bastard thing we do these days?
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Anyone else completely fed up and worn out with having to download an App, enter your email or mobile number to get a code or scan a fucking QR code for every last bastard thing we do these days?
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Allanaron la casa del presidente de Paraguay y encontraron una bóveda secreta de tecnología biométrica israelí. Hermano, latinoamérica es un capítulo de Black Mirror.
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This is not an actor playing WW2 German Nazi, this Germany's current top general, Christian Freuding
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The video's English subtitles inaccurately paraphrase Gen. Christian Freuding's words. He said: "Alles fĂŒr die Freiheit aufzugeben, das ist Freiheit" ("To give up everything for freedom, that is freedom"). agwelt.de/2025-07/krieg-
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It's finally done! @markgoodw_in and I present a lengthy investigation into the cross-section of players from the 9/11 insider trading scandal, Enron accounting fraud and the Trump Family's Bitcoin mining business, as well as their roles in the controlled demolition of the energy and securities markets in the early 2000s that have since brought us to today's data center build out. Read it on our brand new, completely redesigned website by clicking here: unlimitedhangout.com/creativ

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Regime change in South Africa?
Wednesday’s election is another step in South Africa’s regime change, but the country’s future is already being determined by a much more profound shift in power away from the central state and towards independent enclaves of economic and social authority. thecommonsense.co.za/Economi

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Perhaps instead of calling them ‘data centres’ they should call them ‘spyware storage centres’. Why should taxpayers fund billionaires storing the data they have stolen from us?
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Perhaps instead of calling them ‘data centres’ they should call them ‘spyware storage centres’. Why should taxpayers fund billionaires storing the data they have stolen from us?
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This is probably Trump’s most treasonous act: allowing Jared Kushner to be the eyes, ears & hand of Israel, embedded in the White House, effectively running US foreign policy - on behalf of a foreign government. And enriching himself in the process

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