Agent641
@Agent641@lemmy.world
- Comment on ARMADILL-NO 5 hours ago:
Crocodiles? You can try.
- Comment on Anon is Turkish 12 hours ago:
In Australia it’s called landgoose
- Comment on Anon is Turkish 12 hours ago:
Taxi drivers in Turkey are a fucking nightmare to deal with
- Comment on OnlyOffice every single time I flip between it and another app 17 hours ago:
NEVER! That’s quitter talk!
- Comment on Going on Reddit today be like... 17 hours ago:
I think it’s like a cheap Lemmy knockoff
- Comment on adhesive tape to the buttocks 1 day ago:
“Neil, it’s been eighteen years since you got back from the moon, you really need to stop using the bag and finger cot. We don’t even make these anymore except special order for you.”
- Comment on Be honest and tell us what you see 3 days ago:
Your mother?
- Comment on fetching bleach after this one 3 days ago:
You ever see something on the internet that just makes you Jim-face at an empty corner of the room, as if the ghosts of your ancestors are watching and you need them to know that you are equally shook as they probably are?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
You joining my cult or nah?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Thanks bud, I’ll check out those films. Love Kumaré, I watched it again just a little while ago.
I follow a podcast called Let’s Talk About Sects, by a nice Australian lady who talks about different cults each week and studies them, she’s very, very good.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
These “laws” are just manmade constructs, I only trust the word of god. (And god told me to build a compound and fill it with devotees and guns)
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Attract people with the true promise of very cheap, simple, communal living, a shared belief system, and/or a common ideology.
Offer free workshops on useful skills like food storage and survival techniques, meditation, prayer, self-sufficiency, trauma counseling and drug and alcohol rehabilitation
Restrict calories by setting meal times and durations.
Make sure there is enough work so that everyone is busy all the time
Restrict movement by having mandatory meetings, meditation sessions, or chores at particular times throughout the day so nobody has time to go to town.
Erode individual identity with common dress, common food, common hairstyles etc.
Identify and keep track of individual weaknesses (Trauma, parental issues, weight insecurity, financial insecurity, fear of failure, fear of abandonment mental illness), key motivations (Financial stability, seeking to be apart from society, seeking happiness), basic desires (financial security, relationship security, being part of a community, sex)
Make extensive use of seed phrases and formal speech rules so that people censor their own speech. EG People cannot speak to children and vice versa without a parent present (very handy if you take in runaways that have no parents), unmarried men and women may not be alone together except when courting, new members must have a guide/buddy/chaperone/mentor/elder present with them at all times for the duration of their probation.
Maintain division by requiring individuals to report non-conformity by others, make non-reporting of non-conformity a punishable act, and make non-conformity a poorly defined and easily applied term, so that everyone is guilty, and you as the leader get to pick and choose who is punished.
Punishments are gentle tightening of above restrictions - more work, less food, less interpersonal contact, less free time, more proselytizing etc.
Reward extravagantly those who recruit others, using free time, more food, more freedom, sex with other members as a reward.
Reward extravagantly revenue-generating activities, manufacturing, labor, producing food, donating money or assets, or illicit income such as burglary and shoplifting .
Enjoy your cult.
- Comment on Found at work. Send help. 5 days ago:
I must find the monstrous function using virtual arrays that I implemented in a Google sheet of mine when I discovered there’s no limit to how reckless you can be in a single cell.
- Comment on Anon gives a former president some feedback 5 days ago:
Vietnam
- Comment on OH FUCK 6 days ago:
They can’t keep getting away with it!
- Comment on Which game is it? 1 week ago:
- Comment on Which game is it? 1 week ago:
Why aren’t you tending to your factory?
- Comment on a miniscule amount of posting 1 week ago:
Macht Schell!
- Comment on I don't envy the humans pre-dentistry 1 week ago:
“You really shouldn’t be awake for this” - the orthodontist crushing my sideways wisdom teeth with pliers so he can rip the shards out individually.
- Comment on Anon gets ghosted 1 week ago:
Time for a new Chinese online girlfriend
- Comment on I'm just happy you thought it was funny, dear 1 week ago:
Who doesn’t know what a trans person is?
- Comment on I'm just happy you thought it was funny, dear 1 week ago:
Saddam meme too.
- Comment on What’s a movie nobody can convince you is good? 1 week ago:
Oppenheimer.
3 hrs of nausea-inducing quick cuts
- Comment on Starbucks continues to be terrible 1 week ago:
In the time of kings and lords, it got way, way worse than this.
Not saying we should wait that long now, just saying.
- Comment on How can a military buy fighter jets that the seller has kill switches for? 1 week ago:
Once more into the breach, dear friends.
- Comment on This garbage 1 week ago:
Uniball eye fine
I’ve used the same one for 3 years at work and it only just started to run out, so I got another.
- Comment on Book now for 2025's most on-theme cruise destination 2 weeks ago:
You can’t tell me what to do!
- Comment on Using the honor system 2 weeks ago:
Raisins as a service
- Comment on Nicole got a new outfit! 2 weeks ago:
Lemmy is so far left that we all share a communal girlfriend
- Comment on Homer Simpson irl 2 weeks ago:
It’s also a refreshing beverage
