• MisterFrog@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    People have got to learn that not knowing something is fine. Why make something up when you don’t know something?

    I don’t know much about the stage categorisation of cancers.

    Why not just say Biden has cancer?

    I know the answer of course. I just wish there were so many other idiots like him.

    I also wish the US were so stupid as to elect him.

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    Stage 1 is a small tumor that hasn’t spread, where Stage 4 has spread to the blood and is basically everywhere. Stage 9 would be crazy. It would not only be spreading to other people (guessing that would be stage 6 or 7), but it would spread to inanimate objects. Poor fuckers would be giving their Honda Civic cancer there towards the end.

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      Stage 9 is everyone in the same room as you for more than 5 minute gets cancer.

      Stage 10 is when people just see an image of you and boom - cancer. Saw Ol’ Joe on the TV? Cancer. Disneyland Hall of Pridents? Animatronic cancer. You saw an Amtrack train in the distance? Close enough. Cancer.

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      Does the inanimate objects include cancer as well? That might explain how he is alive at stage 9.

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          “Remember President Biden, stay centrist and don’t make waves … oh, and eat more Pineapple” -The cancer cells piloting the Biden Meat puppet around

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      So there is a cancer in dogs that is an STD, and the cells are not from the hist animal what stage is that.

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    Jeez Biden hit the warp zone of prostate cancer? Didn’t realize stages of cancer were like super Mario bros stages

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    Had a friend the other day get diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. I laughed and said let me know when it’s stage 9.

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      23 hours ago

      Every accusation is a confession.

      The ninth circle of Hell, in Dante’s Inferno, is dedicated to treachery and betrayal. Specifically, it’s where those who betrayed their kin, country, friends, guests, or lords are punished. It’s the deepest and coldest circle, with Satan himself residing at the center.

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    every day sth stupider. really. poor ppl at SNL. how you gonna write a skit and prepare for a show knowing even your best joke could easily be less funny than the stuff trump (or any other batshit maga) does. they killed comedy.

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      They’re playing the heel so well, that they manage to avoid scrutiny and public-opinion making, even in the jester’s court. Comedy is an invaluable tool for socializing and discussing what ails us all, and these crooks may just be somewhat immune to it.

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      honestly, he might even be smarter than a large percentage of Americans. Things are really fucked over here.

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      In a ways he is ‘smart’ in the sense that he understands how public attention works and has a brute force understanding of the legal system.

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      Even some non-conservative people somehow still think that he just pretends to be an idiot…

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      I think he’s an incredibly good con man. He puts kindness in his voice and acts like a father figure to poor, abused lost souls and others that think he’s on their side in the grift. He also hires really smart people to do his dirty work. There are a lot of mob bosses that are similar. His follower believes in him even though he’s thrown so many people under the bus, because “I’m not as stupid as they are, right?”

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        No he is a dumb shit. As his minions are. He’s just getting votes because of his extreme populist strategy and wealth (this dumbfuck is still a fucking billionaire and this definitely plays a big role). Most people are just politically illiterate.

        I mean would you ever buy something from him personally?

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          Unfortunately, yes. When he speaks, he uses hypnosis techniques and he truly has no morals, so I can’t hear any deception in his voice. He doesn’t believe anything, so he doesn’t really lie in his fucked up head. So yeah, when he speaks, I put him on fast so I don’t fall for the sing-song voice and the vague slowness of his speech.

          I wish I could find the person’s video that was on reddit from his first term. She explained how cult leaders do it and he does it to a tee. It was super old, like from the 60s or 70s, but she could have been talking about trump.

          Edit: I fucking found it! I can’t believe how many times I looked for this video. Ironically, I have it at 2x speed and I still understand what she’s saying. You can watch the entire thing or start at around 23 minutes or so to get the trump effect. Here we go folks.

          Transcript of portion:

          In order to hypnotize someone you don’t have to do like stage magicians of swing watches or have a person look at the Eraser on a pencil or stare at a spot on the wall. You can do it by controlling your voice by doing as I’m doing now. Get it a bit more sing songy and chanty and you can watch people’s breathing and pace your phrasing so that you can start cooling them down and getting them into a light trance.

          And then, most trance induction that’s used by various cults, then utilizes guided imagery in which the speaker appears to be telling a parable, repeating a verse over and over again, telling a story of his childhood in a soothing rhythmic way, in order to get the person into a trance state.

          Why would a cult leader want to get a person tranced out a bit. What hypnosis and trance induction does, is it gets your attention and my attention highly, highly focused so we don’t have critical thoughts. We don’t judge what we’re doing. We just trust the person that’s giving the visual imagery and the relationship, and it makes us much more malleable and suggestible in that state.

          So that, once the leader gets us into a light trance, then the speech, the sermon, the message that they put in. has a lot more impact than had they done it without doing the trans induction first. So that’s why they do it. It makes us more malleable, more suggestable, and it shuts out that critical mind chatter that we have.

          Such as, while you’re watching this video, you’re asking questions and saying, “I wonder if she means…?”, “I wonder if she’s going to get to…?” If you were being tranced out, that kind of questioning, thinking, gets put aside. And you’re just listening to the voice, the image. And then, what the words say to you you’re much more likely to incorporate into your thinking.

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bRBFhMEQFk

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            when he speaks, I put him on fast so I don’t fall for the sing-song voice and the vague slowness of his speech.

            I watch most videos at double speed. What’s wild to me is that, usually, this makes the speaker sound much more clever. With him though, it makes him sound dumber.

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            What’s hilarious to me is that so many people I talk to refuse out-of-hand to consider that he’s using a hypnotic technique, but also point out themselves about how they’re mystified about how he’s able to influence so many followers. Not only does the hypnosis hypothesis have a fair amount of scientific and historical support, it’s a better explanation than, “It doesn’t make any sense!”

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              He’s a salesman and these are salesman techniques. I guess calling it hypnosis throws everyone off, but I don’t really get why. Putting people in positions to be manipulated seems pretty obvious that that’s what he’s doing.

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            The fuck are you talking about? Hypnosis techniques are bullshit pseudoscience, except in very specific clinical settings with trained therapists. And even then, it isn’t foolproof. You cant actually hypnotize people like in the movies.

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              Hypnosis absolutely works, but not on everyone, maybe only few, and not anything like people think. I’ve seen it done, copied it, got the same results on two different women. Maybe I’ll try my wife tonight! I could go on for awhile, but one test almost knocked me over, literally.

              Hypnotized my gf, copied the stage guy’s initial technique, told her she was stiff as a board, like a statue. Tipped her over and fuck me, barely caught her.

              Now if you think that’s bullshit, I’d invite you to replicate it any way you choose. But here’s the rub, your subject most hold perfectly still while held at a 45° angle to the floor. No muscle strain, no quivering, LOL, as if anyone can do that consciously.

              There was other amusing tricks. Told her Star Wars was playing on the wall. She happily watched for a couple of minutes, “So, what’s going on now?” She described a scene I had totally forgotten. I should mention this was in 1990, we had only seen it in theaters or a rare viewing on broadcast TV. None of us could afford a VCR. :)

              Or the time I took her back before she was born. OHHH NO! I was trying some Bridey Murphy shit, different times. She got confused looking, mumbled a little, suddenly spouted, “SNOO!” Startled hell out of me! We had no clue WTF that was. Later her sister related a story about a snow storm when she was 2 and that’s what she called it.

              Plenty of other anecdotes you may write off, but try the statue trick. See how it goes.

              EDIT: Back to the post above, hypnotism works exactly as OP describes. That is the exact way to get someone in a suggestible trance.

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                  Hypnosis is actually quite useful for digging up old memories that the subject doesn’t consciously remember.

                  Edit: ITT a bunch of people who don’t know anything about hypnosis other than unrealistic depictions in media.

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              How do you think cult leaders get people to follow them? We’re talking about a lot of people who are very smart, accomplished and with degrees.

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                If you think very dumb people can’t get degrees you’ve never been to college.

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                  Just because Trump is dumb doesn’t mean he doesn’t have the ability to manipulate a large percentage of the population with his public speaking. It’s more than the public liking the hate because otherwise Desantis would have won the primary.

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                  Okay, let’s say I’m dumb and they’re dumb. He’s still using techniques to put you into a trance to get you to believe what he’s saying.

                  Now I have to look for that video. Get ready if I find it, I’m posting it everywhere. And yes, I’m implying something. If I go back and forth more than twice with someone, it’s for a reason.

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                They find willing people who want to believe them. Having degrees doesn’t mean someone doesn’t want to think for themselves, which is why a lot of very knowledgeable scientists keep their faith and religions.

                Cult leaders filter out the people who don’t go along with their shit as well. They don’t just go up to random people on the street and hypnotize them to become followers.

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                  Trump does this in one way BY WRITING LIKE THIS on his crap social media. It’s like the nigerian princes filter (MILLIONS DOLLAR ZRE WATING FOR YUO)

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                  That’s true too. I agree with that. I’m one of those. Even now, after all of the horrible shit he does, when I listen to him at normal speed, I can kind of understand what his point is. It’s horrifying.

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                They’re good orators, and very charismatic. Doesn’t require hypnotism, which as I said is pseudoscience.

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                  Is meditation and psychiatry pseudoscience then? I think you’re going to have to source that, lol.

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            Gotta watch that video! Check my other comment below.

            I don’t think Trump is purposefully using those techniques, he just found what works and repeats it, likely too dumb to know he’s even doing it.

            Hypnotized two gf’s back in the day. Had surprising results. People writing off the notion either think there’s magical hoodoo or believe in Hollywood hypnosis.

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              I recommend 2x speed the video, you can still understand her. She talks about in the beginning how one of the former cult leaders said that they were surprised about how easy it is to get people to do what they want.

              He may have figured out what works, you’re right. There’s a reason he read hitler’s book. I’m not about read it to see if it has any of his techniques in it.

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      Honestly, if i had to choose trump or AI to be prez, i’d probably choose AI…

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      I will bet good money that if Biden started getting massive sympathy, Trump is going to say that he has stage 47 cancer in his ear due to being almost assassinated.

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        Stage 47 cancer, which some people say is the best cancer. My uncle had stage 47 cancer, so I knows alot about stage 47 cancer! It almost got my uncle assasinated too! So he started developing anti assasination batteries. I have made better batteries though. Batteries so great that if i had one in my boat, and it was sinking, id jump and get eaten by a shark, because the battery would kill me worse than a shark. So i also think Ohio loves me most.