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Some of the classic ways psychiatry gaslights patients includes:

•Telling them any symptom that emerges is due to the pre-existing mental illness.

•When a patient experiences adverse effects from a drug, raising the dosage rather than awknowledge the side effects.
Note: this is an story commonly seen immediately preceding catastrophic school shootings, but unfortunately, since there is widespread denial in the psychiatric field that SSRIs can make patients turn psychotic, it is frequently recognized (hence leading to it happening over and over again).

•When a patient experiences withdrawal reactions (which is very common and one of the most insidious issues with the drugs), telling the patient that those side effects prove the patient “needed” the drug (as it was treating their mental illness) rather than it being recognized a dangerous withdrawal effect.

•When a patient develops new psychiatric symptoms (e.g., mania) patient’s are told the drug did not “cause” the symptoms, but rather, that the drug “unmasked” a psychiatric disorder that had always been there (even though it would have never been “unmasked” if the patient had not used the drug in the first place). For example, bipolar disorder, is a debilitating condition which around 25% of longterm SSRI users develop (hence leading to an epidemic of bipolar disorder ever since we started mass medicating with SSRIs), and since it is so common, the “unmasking” story has become the party line most psychiatrists use to rationalize the harm being caused to their patients. ...

What is Gaslighting
One of the classic ways an abuser controls their prey is to manipulate the environment so that the abused individual begins doubting their own observations regardless of what is occurring in front of them.

In the 1944 movie, Gaslight, this was accomplished by the villainous husband (played by Charles Boyer) adjusting the intake to gas-powered lights (causing them to flicker) and simultaneously denying that any change was occurring to his mentally abused wife (played by Ingrid Bergman). The term gaslighting originated from this classic movie.

In modern times, this is accomplished by having medical providers all echo the same message that a patient’s injury has nothing to do with the pharmaceutical (or other medical procedure in question). Most commonly, it instead is argued that the symptoms they are experiencing are due to pre-existing psychiatric issues the patient has (e.g., anxiety), which are treated with medications that often create additional issues.

Before we go any further, I want to emphasize just how miserable this is to go through as an injured patient. Imagine what it would be like if (due to the medical injury) the world you had previously known collapsed around you and every single person you trusted (including your friends and family who defer to the judgment of “experts”) told you that it was all in your head and you just needed psychiatric help. It’s a perfect recipe for going insane.

People don’t like being gaslit. The psychological techniques used by salesmen, con men, and pickup artists are highly effective right up until the point at which the target becomes aware of the game. Awareness brings emotional blowback, making further manipulation effectively impossible because the target now regards every piece of information originating from the manipulator with hostile suspicion.

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What?

Was she vaccinated?

Now I can make a meme out of this to warn others.

This article exists, but not "fart", but "cold".

According to Millennial reporter Emma, the person benefiting the most from Trump’s post-Verdict criticism of the US justice system was Vladimir Putin! And right behind him, China. Emma didn’t quote Putin for this story — why should she? — she quoted Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, who correctly observed the Trump Verdict was “simply the elimination of political rivals by all possible means, legal and illegal.” Emma also took great umbrage that China’s Global Times noted the Verdict adds to the “farcical nature” of this election season.

How dare they.

Emma’s Millennial logic went like this: Trump says something about the Verdict, and then Russia and China say stuff about the Verdict. So … Whoops, Emma’s logic shorted out.

Don’t be angry, Emma is a progressive public school graduate. Emma can’t remember Russia or China ever criticizing the U.S. before Trump came along. This is a common logical fallacy called “recency bias,” where Emma myopically focused on the last four days while ignoring the last four decades of constant criticism from our geopolitical rivals.

The truth is, Emma is fretting because the Trump Verdict gives Russia and China their best arguments yet. In other words, if the U.S. justice system really were fair, transparent, and robust, it could easily withstand criticism from both domestic and foreign complainers, who’d have no power to undermine its legitimacy with a couple buzzwords and throwaway lines.

It’s actually an “Emporer has no clothes” moment. The AP is secretly worried that the US justice system is so brittle and so fragile that one single Kremlin spokesperson making a single critical remark about our two-tiered justice system can literally destroy democracy.

But the AP did, inadvertently, describe a real threat to democracy. The real threat to democracy was the AP’s autocratic assumption that words can destroy our democracy, and therefore, people like Trump need to be shut up, because their dangerous ideas could spread to even more dangerous people like a Kremlin spokesperson or a different reporter at the AP’s competitor, the Global Times. ...

Sometimes I suspect the AP isn’t actually a democratic media institution at all. Sometimes I wonder whether the AP is as committed to democratic ideals as it claims. I wonder if it might be willing to burn some core freedoms on the altar of sacrifice, hoping for the blessing of a hallucination of stability and control. Sometimes I wonder if the AP is not really a media platform at all, but instead is just a captured instrument of some three-letter agency nesting deep inside the bureaucratic state.

In the summer of 2023, a poet by the name of Gennady Rakitin began publishing his “patriotic” works on VKontakte, Russia’s version of Facebook. He wrote about war, mercenaries killed in action, the Fatherland, and Russia’s “leader.” Russian lawmakers and senators soon began following his page en masse. And his poems were entered into competitions, celebrated at festivals, and shared on channels dedicated to “Z-poetry.”

But it turns out that Gennady Rakitin doesn’t exist. According to Russian journalist Andrey Zakharov, some of his acquaintances are behind the account — and these anti-war activists have actually been publishing translations of poetry written in Nazi Germany during the 1930s and 1940s.

The Gennady Rakitin page has an AI-generated profile picture and includes only sparse details about the “poet,” describing him as a 49-year-old who graduated from the Philology Department at Moscow State University. But this was enough to fool dozens of Russian senators and lawmakers, who added Rakitin as a “friend.”

Rakitin’s friends list includes Russian senators Dmitry Rogozin and Andrey Klishas, State Duma deputies Dmitry Kuznetsov and Nina Ostatina, Putin’s cultural advisor Elena Yampolskaya, and pro-Kremlin “war correspondent” Yuri Kotenok. Zakharov counted a total of 95 State Duma lawmakers and 28 senators among Rakitin’s followers. The account’s creators said that they started out by adding “various public figures and just random people” as friends. “When a critical mass of well-known names was reached, we went after lawmakers and other celebrities,” they explained. The activists also claimed that they “didn’t invest a dime” in promoting the page.

The works published on Rakitin’s profile include, for example, a translation of Eberhard Möller’s poem “The Führer” — accompanied by a photo of Vladimir Putin emblazoned with a pro-war slogan. Zakharov described Möller as a “committed Nazi and anti-Semite, who became a member of the Nazi Party even before Hitler came to power.” On February 23, 2024, a VKontakte group called “SVO. Quotes from Vladimir Putin. Russia” shared the translation of Möller’s poem to its 112,000 followers.

The Rakitin page also shared a translation of a poem by Herybert Menzel, a German writer who joined the Nazi Party in 1933 and later became a Stormtrooper. The original poem in question was inspired by a portrait of Adolf Hitler and includes reflections on “what it means to be a son of Germany.” Another Rakitin poem takes a work by Nazi songwriter Heinrich Anacker and replaces the title “Faceless Stormtrooper” with “Faceless PMC Soldier” (a reference to Russian mercenaries fighting in Ukraine).

Rakitin only “wrote” 18 poems in total, but they’ve made a splash in pro-war poetry competitions and festivals. In early June, one of Rakitin's poems won a prize at an All-Russian Patriotic Poetry Competition held by the Kaluga branch of the Professional Writers’ Union, reaching the semifinals in the “Poems about war and defenders of the Motherland” category. The magazine Moskva entered another one of Rakitin’s poems into a “Patriotic free verse” competition.

President Joe Biden’s campaign, the White House, and the Democrats are now taking their gaslighting efforts to the next level as the November election draws near.

Following the president’s historic trainwreck debate performance last week, the Biden campaign is now emailing supporters with a list of instructions on how they can gaslight their friends and family that everything is okay in the Oval Office.

The Biden campaign’s email details how supporters can respond to friends who are critical of the president’s debate performance.

According to the Biden campaign, the only people who spotted something amiss during the debate, such as a “panicked aunt” or a “MAGA uncle,” are just part of the “bedwetting brigade.”

“If you’re like me, you’re getting lots of texts or calls from folks about the state of the race after Thursday,” reads the email.

“Maybe it was your panicked aunt, your MAGA uncle, or some self-important podcasters.

“It’s a tough position to be in, so I thought it might be helpful to send you a few responses.”

The campaign email acknowledges that “the debate started rough.”

However, it argued that the real takeaway was that “voters saw what a threat Donald Trump is to the country.”

The email encourages supporters to forcefully push back against those calling on the president to drop out of the race.

It goes on to accuse such critics of being part of the “bedwetting brigade.”

“That is the best possible way for Donald Trump to win and us to lose,” the email argues.

“Joe Biden is going to be the Democratic nominee, period.

According to the Biden campaign, the only people who spotted something amiss during the debate, such as a “panicked aunt” or a “MAGA uncle,” are just part of the “bedwetting brigade.”

They are chattering about Mr. Trump “using the military” against them in the months to come — as if the Abrams tanks were going to roll up to DNC headquarters and blast away. By now, you know that such thoughts expressed by Democratic pols and news pals are always projections of their own wishes. The New York Times published just such a classic paranoid projection exercise last week “. . . telling Americans that if he [Trump] wins, he plans to bend, if not break, our democracy.”

telling Americans that if he [Trump] wins, he plans to bend, if not break, our democracy.”

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The UK Daily Mail ran a pair of pandemic articles this month, dripping with combined irony. The Mail ran the first one on December 7th under the headline, “Alarming reason strokes are rocketing in men under 40.” I’ll give you one guess who they blamed.

You probably guessed it; it was an easy one. They blamed us. Junk food. Heavy boozing. Stressful modern living, with all our jetsetting and materialism. Stupid people. The doctors keep telling you how to live healthy but you just won’t listen. ...

Apparently, nowadays in 2024, the very same alcohol recipes also cause strokes and always have. You’re just remembering it wrong.

All those anti-drinking campaigns, and they somehow forgot to mention stroke risk until now.

It doesn’t have to be vaccines. I could maybe see energy drinks. But junk food? Beer? That, my friends, is just expert “woo-woo” hand waving, designed to shift blame to the victim and to generic products lacking strong political lobbies. The article was salted with internal contradictions, too, almost intentionally. “Alcohol consumption in younger age groups,” the Mail sheepishly explained, “is, on average, falling.”