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The Art of Gaslighting: Confession Through Projection


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2021 Nov 17, 8:31pm   29,734 views  191 comments

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https://roundingtheearth.substack.com/p/the-art-of-gaslighting-confession?source=patrick.net


"The most dangerous psychological mistake is the projection of the shadow on to others; this is the root of almost all conflicts." -Carl Jung

It feels like we're living through an era of extreme projection by the most nefarious sorts. But the truth is simply that we're stepping out of an era in which mass projection was successful insofar as it was cost effective.

Source: Violation Tracker

These days, one person documenting a contradiction can quickly demonstrate proof that can spread as virally as the lie.

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November 9th 2021

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Once you recognize the pattern, you begin to see it often. It's ubiquitous among those whose power depends on control. The psychological profile of the Kunlangeta is stamped on society through the flaws in the organization of our economic incentive structures. Technology's (a)symmetry problem ensures the result, encoded in a mind virus, implanted in the youth.


Maybe pot smoking is the variable that suddenly changed everything just recently? Or temperatures rising? Maybe somebody should check out the heart attack rates closer to the equator. That would be genius!

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Just so we're clear on the whole myocarditis thing, I have never personally seen a single case in 13+ years in emergency medicine. Not one. Pericarditis yes. Do they occur? Sure. But not like this. Pediatric strokes? Come on now.
November 16th 2021

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I'm no expert in Jungian psychology, but my test for psychological concepts is how they grow on me as I meditate on them. Maybe I'm suddenly projecting when I see projection everywhere? Or maybe it really is all getting louder. Louder means the footsteps are getting closer.

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Confession through projection. And a total lack of self-awareness that would be funny if it weren’t so sad.
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I do not think most people fully appreciate the disinformation campaign taking place right now in right-wing media to de-legitimize Biden as President-elect. It has totally saturated coverage. It's everywhere.
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I recently subscribed to VivaFreiBarnes at Locals.com. I find Frei and Barnes to be crisp and educational. Even if by some strange twist I never again find any of their discussions compelling, the succinct phrasing of this concept, which is part of the mass psychosis unraveling, is pure gold. This is another example of what I see as "new media as educators/education", where the masses can reject the mainstream media for a combination of education and reality after coming to grips with various flavors of Gell-Mann amnesia. Viva Frei may have popularized the phrase "confession through projection", though I haven't found out for certain whether he was the first to use it. Either way, it's a t-shirt now.


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180   Patrick   2024 Jul 1, 6:51pm  

https://slaynews.com/news/biden-campaign-sends-instructions-supporters-defend-debate-performance/


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.


I sure hope he remains the nominee.
181   AmericanKulak   2024 Jul 1, 8:55pm  

Patrick says

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.”

LOL.

The more mental illnesses the democrats have to accept, the fewer insults they can use. Probably somebody replied that bedwetting shouldn't be shamed or something.
182   Al_Sharpton_for_President   2024 Jul 2, 3:42am  

'When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you are being ruled by criminals."
- Edward Snowden


187   Patrick   2024 Oct 28, 10:41am  

https://jameshowardkunstler.substack.com/p/speaking-of-abortion


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.”
188   HeadSet   2024 Oct 28, 3:26pm  

Patrick says

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

Notice that the phrase is "our democracy" which means Dem Party power, otherwise the term would be "our republic."
189   Ceffer   2024 Oct 28, 4:40pm  

The Dems fuck the 'democracy' moniker in the ass fairly routinely.

It is part ritual humiliation of the populace (we are not a democracy, we are a constitutional republic) mocking the people's ignorance of government, and a Satanic inversion euphemism for their heedless, corrupt, centralized, absolute power.
190   Patrick   2024 Dec 28, 10:18am  

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/revenge-of-the-nerds-saturday-december


💉💉💉

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.”

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