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Showing posts with label emotional manipulation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label emotional manipulation. Show all posts
Saturday, March 28, 2026
There's a Hole in my Heart (Viced Rhino on YouTube)
My heart is holey. Can you fill it, or do I need god?
Tuesday, July 8, 2025
Why the right dominates the man-o-sphere (The Find Out Podcast)
How did the far-right win over a generation of young men? And can progressives win them back?
In this episode of the Find Out Podcast, we sit down with internet veteran and bestselling author Jason Pargin to unpack the rise of the man-o-sphere, the silence of the left on masculinity, and why right-wing influencers keep dominating the online space.
In this episode of the Find Out Podcast, we sit down with internet veteran and bestselling author Jason Pargin to unpack the rise of the man-o-sphere, the silence of the left on masculinity, and why right-wing influencers keep dominating the online space.
Topics include:
- Jason's viral article "6 Harsh Truths That Will Make You a Better Person"
- The evolution from 4chan to Andrew Tate
- Masculinity, self-worth, and emotional manipulation
- Why liberals must learn to tell better stories, not just win arguments
Sunday, October 27, 2024
Katherine Stewart: Using religion to gain political power via Christian Nationalism | FFRF Convention 2024
Katherine Stewart emphasizes the importance of maintaining the separation of church and state, particularly in the face of rising Christian nationalism.
She explains that Christian nationalists use religion as a way to gain political power, often backed by wealthy donors with economic and deregulatory agendas. Stewart highlights how religious movements manipulate emotions to rally support while their real goal is control. She calls on the audience to remain vigilant and protect democracy through legislative efforts and public engagement.
Katherine Stewart, an author and investigative reporter, will accept FFRF’s Freethought Heroine award. She’s covered religious liberty, politics, policy and education. Her latest book, “The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism,” inspired the documentary feature movie “God and Country,” co-produced by Rob Reiner and Stewart. Her forthcoming book is “Money, Lies and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy.”
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Monday, October 21, 2024
Weekly Roundup: Trump’s Bizarre Town Hall Mental Breakdown (Bradley Onishi and Daniel Miller; Straight White American Jesus podcast)
In this episode of the weekly roundup, 
- Brad and Dan analyze Donald Trump’s unconventional town hall in Pennsylvania and his ties to the New Apostolic Reformation.
- They explore the emotional and nostalgic appeal of Christian Trumpism, including Trump’s influence on reproductive rights issues within the GOP.
- The discussion includes Kamala Harris’s media strategy, the public’s reaction to Trump’s behavior, and the complexities of emotional manipulation in political and religious contexts.
- the Million Woman March,
- Trump’s self-proclamation as the ‘father of IVF,’ and
- recent judicial decisions on voting regulations.
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Hurricane Trump (Conspirituality podcast episode #228)
People will reach for anything to relieve the stress of climate anxiety.
There’s outright denial: this can’t be happening. It doesn’t fit in with my understanding of the world. The science must be wrong. During Milton, Catturd wonders why the wind speed keeps changing on the weather reports. They must be making it up. Or the guy in Galveston, TX, posting that he can’t see any hurricane from his Gulf view.
When denial is impractical, there’s political displacement: our enemies are responsible. They’re seeding the clouds, they’re spewing the chemtrails. The Democrats are sparking tornadoes with invisible drones over swing states. They’re using radio waves to steer the hurricane’s eye. They’re clearing land for lithium mining so they can take our gas hog pickups away.
But when the storm surge is just too high to attribute to Jewish space lasers, there’s also good old spiritual displacement: God is punishing our enemies for their sins. We didn’t stop all their abortions and anal sex, and now we are caught in the crossfire of God’s just vengeance.
Today we look at the distortions and disruptions, the fallacies and fables—and not all of them from the right—that keep people locked in climate paralysis.
Interview:
There’s outright denial: this can’t be happening. It doesn’t fit in with my understanding of the world. The science must be wrong. During Milton, Catturd wonders why the wind speed keeps changing on the weather reports. They must be making it up. Or the guy in Galveston, TX, posting that he can’t see any hurricane from his Gulf view.
When denial is impractical, there’s political displacement: our enemies are responsible. They’re seeding the clouds, they’re spewing the chemtrails. The Democrats are sparking tornadoes with invisible drones over swing states. They’re using radio waves to steer the hurricane’s eye. They’re clearing land for lithium mining so they can take our gas hog pickups away.
But when the storm surge is just too high to attribute to Jewish space lasers, there’s also good old spiritual displacement: God is punishing our enemies for their sins. We didn’t stop all their abortions and anal sex, and now we are caught in the crossfire of God’s just vengeance.
Today we look at the distortions and disruptions, the fallacies and fables—and not all of them from the right—that keep people locked in climate paralysis.
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