Surviving a Modern Struggle Session
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- The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 104
One of the most famous and most evil techniques of Maoist Marxism is the "struggle session" (dòuzhēng, 鬥爭; or pīpàn dòuzhēng, 批判鬥爭, “critical struggle”; or sometimes just pīdòu, 批鬥; also called “denunciation” sessions). They were made famous during Mao's Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), but they were utilized in the Chinese thought-reform (xǐnǎo, 洗脑, lit. "wash brain" or brainwashing) prisons starting in the early 1950s under the CCP. The nature of struggle sessions must be understood clearly in 2022 because Western nations are going through a "Woke" Maoist insurgency now, and the struggle session is all the way back in fashion (and has been for some time). Since being banned and returning to Twitter following Elon Musk's acquisition, host of the New Discourses Podcast, James Lindsay, has been subjected to a rather brutal online struggle session (a "twitter storm" as a harassment campaign) in the attempt to punish him back off the site and to discredit his highly effective popularization of the term "groomer" for Maoist ideological groomers, especially those using Queer Marxism. In this groundbreaking episode of the podcast, James goes through the struggle session he's currently experiencing while tying it to the psychological analysis of that phenomenon as presented in Robert Jay Lifton's book Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of "Brainwashing" in China (amzn.to/3ulwEkf ). Join him to learn about this destructive form of bullying activism and to learn how you can resist it.
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"You cannot comply your way out of tyranny." -- Luke Rudkowski
Luke "Owned By The Globalist Heebs" Rudkowski
Your fight will hurt, fight!
True but compliance under duress especially extreme duress isn't actual compliance which, for example is why entrapment is illegal and those involved in your entrapment are charged and not you, or at least according to the letter of the law is how it's supposed to go. But, standing ones ground is admirable and should be encouraged.
Luke didn't say that ,a European politician did and he quoted her . Luke is a freaking phony putz .
So then once again the ghost of Alexandre Solzhenitsyn speaks again: “everyone lied. Everyone lied to everyone else and even to themselves.“
They don't care if you mean it, they only care that you comply.
"When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime." -Thomas Paine
Great quote!
That is deeply wise and close to the source of our cultural rot
Thomas Paine, Revolutionary and ruthless critic of religion. Just making an observation.
"If they make you denounce [someone], they break a piece of your soul." Well put. NEVER capitulate. It will be taken as an invitation to escalate the abuse, until your soul is obliterated.
Words to live by. Quite literally.
They’re garbage and will do as garbage does.
It's what happened to Winston in 1984. The rat cage was the final straw that broke him into being willing to betray Julia.
@@hope-cat4894 Exactly. God we need Orwell. I suggest we all stock up on physical copies of 1984 and Brave New World because we are living them. If you know anything about the "Sensitivity Readers" in the UK you know how bad the censorship and rewriting is getting. They put 1984 on a list of "problematic" books - and the US isn't far behind the UK...
I have a good friend who's very solid and right wing. She's well educated and successful. She works in a large, old company, and is forced to participate in all kinds of DEI insanity. She has a few more years to retirement, so saying anything at all would be extremely detrimental to her life. I feel so sorry for her. So many people are being forced into this evil cult.
Yup, I had a struggle session done to me in the early 90's in an inner-city bank I worked for. You have no friends b/c they figure, "better you than me." It is the same sentiment as the little story describing what happens when no one speaks up until they come for you and no one is left to speak up. Has stood the test of time.
Did you properly fight the struggle session?
I hope you got up and walked out! NO JOB is worth this maltreatment/abuse FFS.
@@Do-U-Know-me00 your comment is being shadow banned. I can only see it in my notifications but it goes away when I expand the thread
@@ReverseTranscriptase your comment is hidden when I try to expand this thread too
@@michaelking1091 not sure why. I wrote "I hope you got up and walked out! NO JOB is worth this maltreatment/abuse FFS." What was wrong with that?
Hold your ground, whether from a family member or "friend" if they believe and follow in the Hegelian Dialectical. They will try, just as much as a priest or pastor (if they aren't already one).
They view the world religiously.
And to them, the dialectics, they are saving you from capitalism slavery racism ANY TOPIC to break your hold on reality.
Stand strong people, it will happen to you.
When the Communists come for you, hit them with everything you have, but don't let them take you alive. That's what I've learned from this video.
Never apologise and double down!
Correct
@@MoonshineH classic communist move, communist!
@@MoonshineH “At the heart of communist and communistic thought is faith in a kind of historical trajectory toward utopia that’s driven by social alchemy. There are many reasons why this fails in practice, but the simplest thing to say is that communism fails because communism doesn’t know how communism will succeed. The fundamental belief driving communists is that once enough people become true believers that the communist utopia lies on the other side of certain social changes, a perfect society will manifest. How? Because they will. The details aren’t meant to be known or told; they’re meant to be figured out. This is in exact alignment with the historicism in Marx’s dialectical materialism: once we get capitalism out of the way, we’ll enter a worker-managed system (socialism) that can start figuring out how to make the state redundant to its purposes, at which point a stateless improvement of the same will emerge and the communist utopia (and end of History) will emerge.” - Jiminy Concepts
@@MoonshineH I’m not going to argue with you because you are not here to make arguments. You are here to detract and Poison the Well. I will continue to play with you because I’m just getting dressed right now and it’s entertaining.
One thing to do is to laugh at them. They hate not being taken seriously.
This episode of the New Discourses Podcast is available early for members. It will be released publicly on December 27, 2022. Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas 🎄
Merry Belated Christmas, and happy new year. Hopefully yours and Christopher Rufo’s messages will get to far more people this year!👍🇺🇸
Happy holidays James! What an amazing eye-opening lecture on this author and you lending juxtaposition to your personal experiences.
This reminds me of the reeducation sessions of Winston Smith in "1984" and makes the ending of the book that much more understandable.
Never apologize. Never explain.
Even though I've been aware of this happening I didn't really understand the mechanics, but this was eye opening and will be extremely helpful in spotting a struggle session from a mile away.
Understanding that even acknowledging certain comments is being a useful tool in reinforcing the struggle narrative being used against someone you might otherwise agree with.
The mechanics are modeled on the abusive family model. Read up on abusive families and you understand communism.
I haven’t had a real friend since 2020. It’s so isolating some days I can’t breathe, I just keep working on my house, working out, and trying not to think about it
Thanks James. Your work has been invaluable to me. Never give up man.
Absolutely surreal to know how this works and see it happening in real time. It is maddening trying to expose this to others. They think we are paranoid freaks because they can't see it. Only the initiated know the truth
Proverbs 1:7 “ . . . But the fools despise wisdom and instruction.”
@@Longeno55 Proverbs 6:12-15 "A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth. He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers; Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord."
These people have been around for as long as recorded history and beyond. How to cause societal upheaval through sowing dialectical discordance even amongst peaceful groups. They've done this in every country so successfully that I dont think there's a country on earth that doesn't have a puppet government slaved to the will of their nebulous organisations like the World Bank.
Realistically its too late to stop it now. Check out Yuri Bezmenov's breakdown of this phenomenon. Even if it were stopped right now, who knows what damage these people will cause on society until they can be "tamed" again. The subtle process of incremental brainwashing over generations has taken us to this point where we are right now. Many people over decades have been scoffed at, laughed at, and their lives destroyed by the mockingbird media for daring to expose this secret agenda and to try to warn people of the impending dangers. The train is reaching terminal velocity, things are speeding up every day as the balance of power on all fronts tips further and further into their hands.
Omg I’m dead “ bitch you’re my fan ? I’ve got like a million of you it’d take a hundred years to explain this shit” ☠️.
I’m good with you continuing to expose the Marxist craziness and side stepping this bs.
Your actions & solidarity speak for themselves, constantly under fire and battle tested but you stick to what you’re preaching.
It’s rare to see & appreciated.
I'm surprised this whole thing has become such a big deal, but then again I'm never swayed with guilt-by-association arguments. When I saw the picture on Twitter I just rolled my eyes.
Thank you James. It means alot that you endure this madness to help us understand the enemy.
These "struggle sessions" are more pervasive and cunning than I knew! I've had my soul sucked out by struggle sessions!! I'm in the "Recovery" community. Alot of it is hidden under "accountability." Sober living places are rife with this type of behavior.
I’m curious. So, did the soul sucking harm you or help you? You say this as if you are in Recovery but lost your soul? And, what could be done better?
@@brensway I am in Recovery. The soul sucking hurt and helped. Seems like you're familiar with Recovery. So you know how having a wrong Sponsor can fuck you up! When was actually taught from the book, I wouldn't call it "soul sucking" but enlightening
@@augreich Thank you for your response. I do know that people can mess others up.
Hope you have a successful recovery. 🙏
You made a fantastic point at 1:24:00 concerning the "Black Lives Matter" slogan. It's not just an obvious reality and catchy phrase. It was intentionally selected and crafted to not only state the obvious, but to force anyone acknowledging the statement into choosing a side, potentially denouncing oneself or forcing oneself into exile. What's important is that the recognition of that phraseology can be extended to other NGOs or public-private (fascist) programmes attempting the same thing.
Resist. Do Not Comply. Live Free
This may very well be the most important thing you've posted online this year.
Thank you for manning the front lines in the battle of our time. I should have done this earlier, but you've got my monetary support starting today. Let's hope we don't end up in a foxhole, but I'll have your back there too.
Praise God
Amen
Don't regret what you haven't been doing. Just rectify the mistake. Sunk cost fallacy is a bitch.
Pit of snakes...
I'll be honest when I first saw the image and accompanying text that was being spammed I thought "surely there's more to this, and James has probably addressed it". And then I was confused when you hadn't explained yourself/the situation. I generally consider myself aligned with your ideals and it's curious how easily an "ally" can be swayed to join the struggle session unconsciously. I'll try to be more cautious in the future and be better at spotting a struggle when I run across it. Great podcast breaking down this subject!
A local school sent slips for parents to opt their kids out of SEL. Saw it in a parents group on FB. I posted them your video on it
Looking at the woke social media bullies through this lens makes me hate them so much more than I already did.
!!! a 'bully's bully' is one of THE WORST things to be... gives credence to whimsically chosen victims for cruel public humiliation for the sake of publicly humiliating someone. the power grab, lived out.
even though theyre deserving of ire, dont let hate consume you. Becoming the opposite side of the same coin is lose lose
@@chelebeaqueen They are "cry bullies."
it's a bully bullying people while claiming that the one they're bulling is the bully.
absolutely backwards, blatantly hypocritical projecting deflection
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@@Ubu987 i like that! (i mean your title of them, not the actual thing haha)
My wife is from Kunming, China. She grew up in Mao's China. She told me about stuff like this.
Thanks James. Speaking as fomeone who is at present somewhat stuck in a cult this is helpful :)
100% with ya, stay on mission
You're amazing. Keep pushing. And THANK YOU.
Your best episode yet, I think. Than you James.
I’m a Christian. We have a name for this: the spirit of the anti-Christ.
There is no forgiveness with them, only confession. There is no creation, only destruction. No wisdom, only confusion. No order, only chaos. They call good, evil. And evil, good.
I know you don’t believe in God. But I think it will become clearer as all this unfolds.
Reality doesn’t depend on woke perception. Reality is.
"Behold there are save two churches only; the one is the church of the Lamb of God, and the other is the church of the devil"
Thank you Uncle Manspreader. 🙏🏽❤️🇺🇸
Calm down, Auntie Jemimah.
@@darwingraves372 Big Black rifle (ak-garbage) as a pic?? 🤔
Someone is compensating. 😂
@@allyourbase888 kek
Excellent (and terrifying) episode . . . I LOVE the comparison with Gideon and his men . . . those who drank like dogs . . . PERFECT analogy!!
Thank you so much for what you are doing James . . . you are providing an invaluable service to humanity and western civilization. I am trying to think of more ways I might be able to help in this cause, along with speaking out against this insanity on a daily basis.
I have learned some of this on my own over the years through experience. For example, the "explain why" tact. Thank you for giving me a point of reference for these shenanigans.
Got this at my son's middle school.
The type of psychological abuse being described in that book from Lipton is horrifying to me. I would rather be physically beaten than endure the breaking of my mind and soul that way. At least physical wounds can often be healed. After you've had your mind destroyed so that you're believing what they tell you about your own self, after you even betray everyone you love, how do you come back from that? My heart breaks for that poor doctor and every other person who has been subjected to this evil.
I saw some of the garbage being done to James on Twitter. It really is enough to drive anyone nuts. Over and over and over they'd post that stupid photo. It made me so angry. I wanted to speak up, but I am still locked out of my account. I can see some posts, but I can't respond or interact in any way.
what photo?
What photo?
@gwho & @Kamacle Blackburn
The one of your Moms blowing the whole football team.
Yesica,
I wasn't much on Twitter at that time but I saw the funny photo.
What I didn't know was thousands of spams.
QUESTION:
Do you know if Mein Kampf, my struggle, the leading book of National Socialism, is a similar "struggle" to Maoist "struggle"?
Probably not. Different story & meaning, I think, but not entirely sure if the roots are the same.
Seems to be en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Jay_Lifton.
What a great line: "I can't go to war with people who drink water like a dog".
Being outside of all this and just enjoying your podcasts makes it really crazy to hear about it. At least it is your own viewpoint. Not many people has the chance to actually let their own viewpoint be heard when these things happen. So good on you.
James, I have listened to and appreciated many of your podcasts. I am aware of the problems happening on Twitter since I follow you there. I recognized what your enemies were attempting to do but never believed any of their accusations.
I want you to know that I am behind you and I offer my friendship to you. I hope that you will not lose your confidence and allow the Maoist creeps get the better of you.
Keep up the good work and I will continue to pray for you.
Larry
Once you see these tactics in operation especially if you are the target of these attacks it is extremely surreal. It's like you can see the strings moving these people
Thank You James for all of your efforts!
Thank you for this video. Its really great to have someone breaking their tactics down.
Thinking back to when I disagreed with other students in college, it's alarming how many of those kids would initiate struggle sessions with me having never read anything about Maoist China.
You are spot on. History is not taught. It is all about propaganda now.
Something in human nature. Guess any kind of tyranny, need for power, manipulation, etc., can bring out our worst parts.
I’m sorry that you’ve had to go through this but I think it is beneficial in the way that you laid the CCP style struggle session side by side with the current woke style struggle session. This was a perfect way to create something positive out of a negative experience. Exposing their methods to their goals is paramount in defeating this ideology.
It cannot be defeated. It can only be kept at bay. They must be allowed to exist, no need for war, especially over "ideas".
Thank you so much for what you do. 💓 I know this only a small comfort, but you were never dead to me. I don't use Twitter so I didn't even know you were off. Was just continuing to listen to you wherever you were. Our voices are heard, and history will be on our side.
Stay strong James!
Everyone involved in this garbage is evil.
People think they're dumb, that's giving them too much credit.
They're 100% malicious, and evil.
Phenomenal episode, especially the latter half with the concrete walkthrough of how a witch hunt and a woke struggle session plays out and how you should try to handle it. It is very valuable.
It's more than just a turn-on-your-friends struggle session, it's also them trying to destigmatize the p word so that we can no longer call them out on their crimes.
You nailed it
I don’t think Nikki clyne should be trusted. I support James 💯 but I think she’s serving as a Kanye type figure in these spaces. The way she speaks just drips with manipulation and honey trap techniques.
You have been prolific recently. I can't help but Wonder this is a procrastination recording. Whatever the reason, I love it. Thank you!
Really appreciate your analytical walk through of Lifton. More people need to understand & SEE these dynamics in action around them. Those piggybacking off your work/basking in reflected glory of association with you & vested only in their self image in relation to this manipulation - they’ve revealed themselves to you. That’s painful, but useful for the longer term. Your recent lecture with Frank (Chalkboard Heresy) was fucking awesome - great Q&A too. Keep on using that bloated body mass of the Progressive Left against itself Swordsman :)
Thanks. James, you do a awesome job, one I wish I could do and reach but you have a phenomenal reach and ability to concise info.
Recently I noticed that at my employer that is a big corporation, the HR department administers promotions. They have documents describing the criteria, about 5 points, each are rephrasing the same thing: how many people you sucked up to and for how many years. They have this even for technical titles like lead engineer, while nothing is there about expertise, successful work completion, averting disasters with good engineering decisions. That is all out the window.
They want peers to give reviews and endorsements on people, and any peers that are incompetent and having fraudulent careers (lying to cover up their own screw ups), will throw mud at anyone who doesn't fail as much as they do. Especially if we point out their ... not mistakes ... but the major flaws in their contribution. Either the HR people and management who plays by their rules, are naïve, or they are intentionally do this gatekeeping: you are only allowed to have a career if you are willing to suck up to corrupt people. If you are willing to be corrupt. It is not that HR is friend with incompetent lead engineers, they have never even met, rather it is ideological: they only allow soul-less people to get ahead, like it was in the soviet union. If you falsely reported your cousin to the KGB, only then you will get a tenure at the university or in the local factory management. If your cousin really did any crime, your reporting was not as good as a false report.
It is class-loyalty that they require, not expertise, even in an engineering department. Loyalty to a corrupt class, means you must be corrupt too, and prove how corrupt you are.
This is why the biblical principle of having not just one witness, but corroboration is key! Whatever the accusation is, whoever is making it has the burden of proof. That used to be a principle in our legal system. That's changing now. But the principle stands. That's why I watched in stunned confusion as everyone just started accepting that they are "racists", when it was never proven that they are! Don't get on the defensive with these despicable people. You are under no obligation to defend yourself from something that hasn't first been proven! THEY have to prove it. YOU don't have to prove you didn't do it!
I always hit back with, “only a narcissist would accuse someone of something they have no proof of.” Then when they protest, “Well, that is what a narcissist would say.”
I saw those twitter pictures, im astounded that they got any traction at all.
I'm sorry you had to go through this and I'm thankful you made it through and that you made this episode
I'm sorry you have to go through this. Thank you for sharing and using it to educate and help others. God bless.
God bless you James Lindsay, you are doing the Lord's work. I wish I was active on Twitter at that time, so I could have seen that struggle session going and could back you up.
If you want to see an actual modern day struggle session example, check out Sharon Osborne on the Talk when she was attacked by all of the other Talk women over her defense of Piers Morgan. That was when she got kicked off the Talk. It's horrible to watch.
No one with half a brain took that pic seriously and could see what they were trying to do. Intense psychological warfare and you are so brave and strong, James. Praying for you.
Why was she there in the first place? The fact that Nicki Clyne defends Raniere is suspicious. The fact that a sex cult defender is associating themselves with people like James should have everyone’s spidey sense tingling. It feels very honey trap/intentional guilt by association.
My friends tried to give me a struggle session over a call of duty lobby bc I didn’t agree with the blm riots during the height of it. Then they blocked me
lol
They were NOT your friends, and you should be happy to be blocked by them. PLEASE NEVER tolerate this abuse, you don't have to!
Man call of duty lobbies have really changed since I was a kid
Lol
No loss
Those were not your friends, those were imposters taking advantage of you.
Thanks for this, and sorry you had to experience it first hand. I just received your latest book in the mail today. Last week I got a nice copy of “Education in the New Age” for comic relief. I just ordered a coy of the brainwashing book. It sounds grim, but I think it’s worth reading to learn ways to resist it. I’m starting to think Twitter is just one of their tools; kind of like the prison cell described in the reading. I’m glad I never got on Twitter.
Yeah Twitter even under Elon is evil. The prison guard is in the end but the roaming gangs of commies who harrass and report people.
When asking questions is a crime, there is no recourse. Press on, life is too short to comply.
I absolutely love the devotion James exhibits to the real and the true. Educating the masses with actionable tactics to combat these disgusting ideologies is his superpower. THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING YOU DO. YOU ARE TRULY MAKING A DIFFERENCE AND LIVING IN A MANNER THAT IS A WITNESS TO WHAT YOU BELIEVE. I AM BLESSED IN SO MANY WAYS BY THE CONTENT YOU MAKE AND I FEEL STONGER BECAUSE YOU LET US KNOW WE ARE NOT ALONE.
35:50 "They (your interrogators) start 'struggling' to try and 'help' you." Ah, so it's the people torturing you who are "struggling," not the person being tortured.
Perfectly in line with leftist thought
Sounds like the same struggle sessions used during the Salem Witch Trials.
none of this is new, if we just spent the time to study history. it just has a diffferent flavor each time.
James, many people have jobs on their own and tune in all day long. We appreciate your content very much.
Scientology ethics handlings impose something similar to the "struggle sessions." There is a universal thread which yields the "struggle sessions" and their affinities.
Well said James. I find a lot of good ideas in your work. The idea that they are trying to get us to denounce people we like is useful. I think you are right not to denounce Nicki Clyne--I agree with you, even if she made mistakes in the past.
I personally wouldn't use the word "groomer" to mean anything except in the context of sexual grooming which then turns into sexual contact later. I personally would call woke indoctrination brain washing or indoctrination, even when indoctrinating about gender Theory. If there is no sexual contact, I would call that indoctination, not grooming, and would reserve the word grooming for leading a minor towards sexual contact with an adult.
I'm an academic that investigates wrongful convictions sometimes. I have seen real legal cases where kindnesses of a wrongly accused person were intitially understood to be benign, and then decades later were reinterpreted as "grooming", and further investigation led to the realization that the accuser had been creating memory distortions in therapy. So even one of your defenders, like me, will not be using the word groomer to describe woke indoctrination (unless it leads to pedophilia).
It is extraordinarily damaging legally and within a family to be inaccurately called a groomer (or a nonce, or a pedo), and it is a remarkable common tactic in certain circumstances (especially in disputes).
I support your right to choose the words you wish to use to make your case--your goal is similar to mine and I value what you dig up in this god-awful woke movement.
Thank you.
Happened to friend of mine. In one of those communal sing! choirs. His sin? He did not pile on some guy accused of something domestic-y or sex on date-y. But just trying to sit it out, he became the next subject of the struggle session. Nuts. That city's choir group essentially ended up schisming over that.
Happened in my mom's knitting group in a retirement community. It broke up the entire group. A bunch of retirees just knitting got wiped out by woke activism.
Everything good that Marxism touches, gets hollowed out and dies. That's because, as James has laid out, Marxism is a cult whose keystone is deconstruction --it doesn't know how to build, only to destroy.
That's why preventing their entryism is critical to maintaining any high-trust community --once they worm their way in, trust degrades and the community becomes a shell of itself. These people all think alike and spout the same words, so it's important to keep an eye on what academia is pushing in particular since that's where these dog whistles all originate.
"The point of the struggle session is they were in effect being made to renounce the people the organizations and the standards of behavior which had formed the matrix of their previous existence."
“The criminal type is the type of the strong human being under unfavorable circumstances: a strong human being made sick.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
I am not on twitter so did not see it, but I would have swept it away as a 'guilt by association' smear without a second thought.
@@MoonshineH There is also a word for people who fling imaginary poo at a wall hoping some will appear to stick.
Thanks for your work James. One video that has always stuck with me is the one about the motte and bailey (excuse my spellings... despite being British, and Britain being the home of lots of castles, I still haven't nailed how to spell these words!). I'm going to see if I can find it and have another listen as it seems more relevant than ever.
oh whoop whoop, I did get the spelling correct ; )
I appreciate that you covered this material.
Thanks for an enlightened conversation. I have your back.
It gave me great satisfaction to see this Alejandra person be put through their own struggle session in front of Congress. What a Pos.
And PS. Another tool is the demand to ‘cite your sources’. They want to make you go find links and blah blah blah. No. They have a finger and a phone and the truth is out there.
Thanks James!
It doesn't sound like being on twitter is worth it.
It can be a nightmare even for nobodies like me. I can see how my stress levels have lowered since I've been locked out for months. But I've lost touch with a lot of people, and that's sad. I miss them. For all its faults, it is great for 1) hearing breaking news and 2) outreach, if you're in a profession like his.
Honestly
I am with you. Making some progress in getting this message to Israel (TH-cam interviews and lectures). I read many books you mention.
You can’t correct yourself out of a situation like that. It’s hard, I admit it, especially when no one believes you. But remember, people like that turn on and betray each other too. Just wait a few years, there are always cracks that open and the truth shine through. Remember that. ❤
Keep your kids out of online fandoms (fanart, fanfiction, cosplay), they perfected the online struggle session 10 years ago. Whatever your kid is into, never let them communicate with other fans online. Trust me, it's cancer and your child will have a 6/10 chance to end up a sexually confused freak.
That might be true.
Do you have more details on how they apply this tactic? Am concerned someone I know is currently falling for it...
@@mouisehay930 It's like any cult like community, they will love bomb the person and make them feel like they belong. Since there is always sex involved in these things, it makes the young person even more vulnerable to manipulation into degeneracy and bizarre beliefs. Far left progressivism reigns supreme and there is a hierarchy in each group of fans, where you'll have a small group of super popular content creators/personalities and then their legions of rabid followers who consume their content. Anyone who gets into any kind of tiff with the popular people will have an army of rabid fangirls to destroy them through mass harassment or reporting, or the army just does it without any command, they reinforce the narrative and the power structure. I remember the first time I came into an Inuyasha fandom and asked a group why there was so much gay fanwork with Inuyasha and his brother and I was jumped on by about 25 people and ripped apart about how bigoted and stupid I was. And this was 2006.
Role playing is basically a form of mutual brainwashing with other people where you can start to question your sexuality, your identity, etc. I've seen it happen so many times, I've also seen countless role playing of pedophilia (shota/lolicon), it's very very common for young girls to role play as underage boys having sex, or as an adult male raping a young boy. The RPing is very dangerous imo and normalizes sick and wrong behavior while rewarding the person with sexual arousal.
The insidious part is it's like how the left operates everywhere else, but there is no control limit or "policing" so to say in these communities, and the grooming and pedophilia is completely unchecked and out in the open, but most people don't know about this stuff at all, and some of the ones who might have a clue tend to just blame it on "anime", but it's not the anime, it's any kind of entertainment out there. It's not the anime itself, or the show, they're usually just normal stories like Naruto or Supernatural, but these people make their fanworks sexual. Which would be fine if it was all adults, but unfortunately most fandom is 13-25.
@@jackalcoyote8777 I say that as someone who likes writing fanfic still and had a bit of a fanfic career back in the day that sprung out of some crazy woman who attacked me and I made friends with some popular writers and got in with the clique, so I've been on every level of fandom and seen all its ugly underbelly. But there's just too many kids in a place that has so many sick perverts, I just wish more parents realized how dangerous it all is. There's a lot of mentally unbalanced people in fandom too, not just sexually confused, but literal crazy people. Not a place for kids.
@@mouisehay930 It's peer pressure, and brigading and dog piling. The only way for your friend to avoid it is to get out of it entirely.
I had a struggle session preformed on me in 2004 at Muskegon community college in Michigan
It's everywhere.
This reminds me of my best friend in HS. He was falsely accused of grape. I didn't believe it bc thats not who he is plus it never happened again. He got kicked out of school, everyone was talking about it & if you didn't side with her then you were also guilty. Most lost friends over it, at the end there was 3 of us that stuck together. He took a plea deal bc it was just going to be probation for like a yr & it wouldn't be on his record. Which only made things worse for us in school bc they said he was guilty. In reality the state didn't have a case & did it to save face but he just wanted it to be over. Around 4-5 yrs later he bumps into her & he told me she kinda said sorry for what happened. No one else knows about this & I bet most of those still believe he did it. I think she just didn't want her boyfriend to find out what she did.
I really hate people like her.
"But what saith the answer of God unto [Elijah]? I have reserved to Myself seven thousand men who have not bended the knee."
Hang in there, James. You're not alone. There are many, seen and unseen, who are committed heart and soul to the fight against this darkness. You are in our prayers daily and we are in your corner no matter what the attack or the accusation.
Also, I think the message to Gideon was also meant for you. "The Lord is with thee, thou mighty man of valour." 🙂
before 2020 i went so far taking responibilty for damages of items on trucking in my event production company whenever i heard warehouse employees point out stuff they started asking me if i was lying. i would say no that wasnt me but it looks like something i might do. i was also in a position where i did all jobs that didnt involve selling
24:35 "All that exists deserves to perish" (Goethe)
"The ruthless criticism of all that exists." (Marx)
So basically the only way to avoid a struggle session is to answer everything like they do
"i do not agree with that framing"
or just fauci your way out
Or just not directly engage with them. If you do engage with them you will find yourself arguing with teemage communists online with all your free time.
Ain't workin' on me, ol' pal. Keep up the fight.
thank you.
this is going to help so much
I bought the Lifton book. Not read it yet. But thanks to you James I'm already for armed.
Thank you, for putting this together! I am so very angry, saddened and disheartened that you’re still going through this. We’re only just beginning in this Marxist/Maoist pandemic…You are a voice and example of wisdom for all who are destined for the same treatment. Following truth, loyalty and love comes at a steep price. Am I ready for this? Can I pay the price? This is deep thought, life changing, information and advice. I am deeply sorry if I played a part in your persecution, it’s something that I never wanted or intended to do.
I’m just nobody and don’t need a platform, but I have tried twice to be on Twitter. I banished myself from it. That thing is toxic as shæt. I post something on Instagram maybe twice a month. That’s the only social media I have. I have no interest in telling people what I’m up to. But I tend to weather my highly individualistic views at times here on TH-cam. My name doesn’t exist on any social media. I guess I’m socially dead. I’m fine with that. When the trolls try to provoke me, I take pleasure in ignoring them into non existence. Don’t worry, these people forget about harassing you and move on to the next one. I have never been a conformist to anything. I am considered a difficult person. I don’t find myself difficult, I’m happy with myself. BTW I love listening to you because you are extremely intelligent. Thank you 🙏🏼 😊
"Do it to Julia" as Winston said.
Thanks for this James. I did see these weird posts on Twitter referring to you and I automatically knew they were bullshit. Thanks for providing tips on how to handle these attacks. ❤
Sounds basic military training like, where the training instructor attempt to break down the recruit and 're-mold' them into soldiers. If you resist, you get struggled via physical training and extra duties. If you continue to be non-compliant, they struggle the entire group of recruits to peer pressure you into submission. "Oh what is this? Recruit Snuffy doesn't want to be a team player? 100 pushups for everyone! Make sure you thank Recruit Snuffy!"
This is so disgusting that this happened to you. I saw it happening and tried to defend you as much as I could. I couldn’t stop them all, obviously. I’ll have your back again if it happens again.
Thank you so much for talking about what happened in comparison with the inescapable form of struggle sessions. You held your ground and I applaud you for that! Keep up the fantastic work! You are educating so many people who desperately want to know their enemy!
Happy to be in the 1%. Stay strong James.
"Identity" is sort of the postmod 21st century shibboleth for the old term "ego"; when one says "identity" today, it invariably refers to self. "Identity" is an inherently narcissistic word.
I think the older word was developing character. Character > Identity. (Thank you for that, by the way. That will come in handy later.)
Identity, in this context, is about being identified with, or identifying oneself with, one of the myriad groups defined as marginal-ized, and oppressed by dominant groups. Dominant group can simply be a numerical majority. It could also consist of a minority of people who are excellent, versus mediocre, whether this is about the best cardiologists or the best basketball players or the best rap lyricists, who would never be inclined to freely gift their dominance to people who are low skilled or simply lazy.
That's how Nikole Hannah-Jones, for one example, classifies people into a group identity. The same commissars take it upon themselves to decide who doesn't get to belong to the group identity, such as black skin but not politically black.
Mild liberal black people like John McWhorter and Coleman Hughes are excluded. Not to mention people who overtly reject Leftism like Tim Scott, Larry Elder, Candace, and many other less well known black people who appear in my TH-cam feed.
@@gg_rider In the postmod failure of classical Marxism, the dominant neo-Marxian intellectuals define nomenclature, and the meaning of "identity" as a group-class; the submissive followers accept this stuff like hamsters on a wheel. Psychologically the dynamic, as in all totalitarian collectives, is similar to BDSM, but on a mass scale.
Remember when identity used to mean what other people would be able to identify you as?
@@brittybee6615 Identity of oneself, by oneself, integrated for both world and self united, is a human right!