The now-missing account, which posted under the name Docnetyoutube, has a documented history of promoting fake stories. But even with his profile gone, the seeds of the lie had already been sown and spread across the conspiracy ecosystem, driven by right-wing activists and self-styled conservative journalists.

  • geekwithsoul@lemm.eeOP
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    26 days ago

    Oh it’s even worse than that. MAGA folks are entirely driven by soul-shaking fear. Imagine being scared and angry every waking hour and how exhausting that must be. Not to mention but those responses literally suppress activity in your prefrontal cortex and reduce executive function in the brain. It sets up a feedback loop of poor decision making and fear/anger responses.

    We need something like those cult deprogrammers, but that can work on roughly 100 to 150 million people.

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      26 days ago

      Maybe we could start blasting cat videos in adds for NFL and NASCAR and stuff, tuck in some subliminal messages encouraging therapy.

      Cat videos are known to be calming and stuff.