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Parasocial Exploitation

Parasocial exploitation is the practice where influencers, content creators, or brands deliberately manufacture an illusion of genuine friendship or intimacy with their audience to maximize financial gain. It turns a fan's natural emotional investment into a transactional commodity, often leading to overspending or psychological harm.

Erika On Hate Crimes

Purposeful, deliberate ignorance accomplishes nothing - it solves no problems. Because it's not supposed to.

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A second self.

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When competence gets labeled elitist.

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1. System Justification
2. The Just World Bias
3. Stockholm Syndrome
4. Social Dominance Orientation
5. False Consciousness
6. Temporarily Embarrassed Millionaire

Erika On Certainty

They sell us on Pie In The Sky

And while we sit here waiting for the pie, they take everything else.

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The Daddy State

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Erika Explains

These is no line.

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Selective Conspiracism

Selective conspiracism refers to a cognitive and political phenomenon where individuals or groups pick and choose which conspiracy theories to believe based on their existing political, ideological, or personal biases, rather than evidence. (NIH)

Cult Cognition

Cult cognition involves the psychological manipulation of thought processes, often exploiting cognitive dissonance and social conformity to create intense, unquestioning loyalty to a leader or group. By employing four types of control—behavior, information, thought, and emotion (BITE model), these groups break down individual critical thinking and create an "us vs. them" mentality. (Wikipedia)

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No, we're not to blame for what our forebears did. But we are responsible for what's happening now - possibly as a consequence of what they did.

So we need to stop being whiny-butt pussies about it, and reckon with it.

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She's concurring with others who've been talking about the same thing.

It's not plain old everyday garden variety Dementia, it's Frontotemporal Dementia.

Those of us who can be considered normal have a little guy in our heads who can tell us, "Stop - don't do that".  But for Trump, that little guy is no longer there - if he ever was in the first place.

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If he's historically great, then your suffering means something.

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• Cruelty becomes discernment
• Poverty becomes a character flaw
• Empathy becomes a spiritual weakness

If you're wealthy, it's god's blessing. If you're poor, it's god's punishment.

They're not hypocrites if they believe they're adhering to the teachings of their faith.

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Here it comes, kids. The horrendously shitty things Republicans have done - and continue to do  - and continue trying to do - generally don't take effect immediately. That is, we don't see or feel the effects right away. (There's that pesky old "elasticity thing" I go on about sometimes)

Anyway, the fucked up every-man-for-himself hellscape that the Plutocrat-friendly GOP has been pimping these last 50 years is starting to take shape.

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2 weeks.

That's the method to his madness.

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When you've secured your very own exclusive lifeboat, sinking the ship that everybody's on becomes profitable.

Never forget, population reduction is always part of the plan.

Stepping On Our Dicks

Sure glad our greatly awesome and amazingly tremendous president had the foresight to kill all the incentives and subsidies for wind and solar so our precious Dirty Fuels Cartel can stay profitable while the rest of us nobly fight to the death over for the last package of low carb tortillas.

I don't remember oil selling at $3 a barrel when I was in my 20s.

Consider my gast thoroughly flabbered.