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The projection thing can also be regarded as the tactic of "Always accuse your opponent of what you yourself are doing".

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That's in CIA basic training, John Kiriakou writes about it in his book Doing Time Like A Spy.. he blew the whistle on the torture program & got 3+ years Federal prison.. There are four things. Deny everything. Admit nothing. Make counter accusations. Not sure of exact phrase for fourth but recruit assets is the spirit of it. The book is fun as he explains how his training was used in all different jail relationships. He has a few fun stories w counter accusations in face offs with the warden. https://www.johnkiriakou.com/books/doing-time-like-a-spy/

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I do not think there is anything I appreciate more than a good book recommendation, thank you :D

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Oh nice.. so happy of that John is such a good egg and seeing the world through his eyes is a fun ride. All his books are good but that's my favorite you can't not love it. so excited for you! :~)

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ie more a conscious ploy vs subconscious shadow projection.

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I've wondered about that. In some cases, it's hard to tell, but I do think an enormous amount of bad behavior is a cradle-to-grave incentive-and-punishment structure in which many people act out on behalf of their masters (often even when they think they're protesting their treatment---they wouldn't know how to recognize their cages).

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Our local state premier dictator has spent 100s of 1000s of dollars on social media gurus to polish his media image because it is utterly woeful otherwise.

My guess is someone who has headed such a nefarious organisation as Pfizer has a similar team writing his missives for him, at a CIA level of skill. Because it's billions $$ at stake and he needs to "get ahead of the message".

For 90% of people and their normal interactions, I'd easily go with projection.

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Pfizer was basically insolvent before 2020.

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I looked but could not find evidence of this. Do you have a link?

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Yes, take goodwill out of the accounts here and you have insolvency.

https://s21.q4cdn.com/317678438/files/doc_financials/2020/q4/Pfizer-10-K.pdf

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It is a tactic so simple and unassuming that it works on most people. Even kids use it.

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As someone who has observed the warmongering world powers use their good intentions to spread democracy in dictatorship countries for decades (mine included, in several variations and on several occasions) by initiating some sort of violent local conflict (coupe, to the best, and bloody war, to the worst), I can now safely say that projection is the weapon of war. Our whole worldview may be a projection, and when we attack to self-defend (or inject to self-protect or control partners in the name of love) it is definitely not in others' best interest. Now the veil of wars has finally been lifted to transcend national borders, and we can clearly see the war for what it is - psychopathology. The "war on terror" in the U.S. is a projection of fear. I am devastated to see so many people being gaslit by the projection of public health.

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Nov 17, 2021Liked by Mathew Crawford

The bad cat is a marvelous follow!

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Nov 17, 2021Liked by Mathew Crawford

Checking for heart attacks closer to the equator. Hahaha that made me chuckle. It’s a not funny funny. Good article.

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"Maybe pot smoking is the variable that suddenly changed everything just recently?"

These folks have no shame they will repeat anything... someone dropped this in a chat thread to illustrate the point & does beautifully. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZVv2AOCnaA

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I find it odd that people cover their nakedness very expensively, don't belch and fart openly with enjoyment (Brandon excepted) , yet they can lie with a straight face. Curious.

If you test those people, you will find that many are psychopaths, meaning they have no empathy and no sense of shame or embarrassment.

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Nov 17, 2021Liked by Mathew Crawford

The slogan of the fascists in the Spanish Civil War was "Long live death! Death to intelligence!" and just to add complexity, Marie Louise von Franz (Jungian) said that there are things within us that are so dark and toxic that they *must* first be projected before the projection is withdrawn. Power functionally changes people's brains and they become addicted to maintaining that power and worldview, like hungry ghosts, filled with Sauronic narcisisstic rage, and they can't come back. That's why they have to be stopped. Think of how Gita Sereny, the journalist, got Franz Stangl, the commandant of one of the WWII camps, maybe Birkenau, to FEEL what he had done and admit what happened. He died of a heart attack a day later.

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This. This is why I keep comments open.

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Another great piece Matt. Just gonna plug my favourite "Nazis are socialists" article though, while we're bringing the subject up!... https://www.minds.com/blog/view/944882225028296704

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Jacinda Ardern is the leader of the Labour Party which is supposedly socialist in origin. There's really not a socialist bone in her body though. There are also other members of her Labour Party who yell from the roofs that they're socialist as well even down to getting communist slogans wrong or imitating Australian politicians in style and voice, Kevin McAnulty for first and Deborah Russel for the latter but they're also far from being socialists. They are both arseholes though, Kevin especially who operates a sock puppet on Twitter alongside his official account.

They're all, without exception, operating in the interests of the billionaire class. Maybe Lenin and Trotsky were as well, 'Soviet' after all does mean in an etymology somewhere 'flying rat'.

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And I'm sure the workers party of Hitler's was no better. I do remember reading a letter once where he wrote to the NYT? where he pleaded his ability to run Germany on behalf of the capitalists.

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I'd like a link to that reference. Worth having bookmarked.

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Somebody put it up on Twitter once upon a time with only part of the letter highlighted so as they could make their point. So I chased down the letter and found it. I might have saved it somewhere but I need to tidy up my files first. I'll check and if it's easily available I'll link to it.

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Nov 18, 2021Liked by Mathew Crawford

When such folks say 'mis-information' they mean "mis-leading information" which implies you need to be "led" in the first place.

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We can start our fightback by not using their words and phrases, like "gaslighting".

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Can you do an investigation into who the hell is running Pfizer's Twitter account?https://twitter.com/pfizer/status/1460623702018732039

I mean I have a pretty good idea it's some 23 year old blue haired "nonbinary" type

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I got my vaccine but then I got a heart attack the doctors says it was because I was thinking about all the unvaccinated people and it made me sad.

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I don't appreciate your methodology of getting people to buy a subscription. It's more than somewhat underhanded. I don't know if that's a substack thing or your thing but it stinks. I obviously erred in giving somebody my credit card info.

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Matthew 7:5 - "You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye."

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Efficacy Scaling issue

Vaxxed % infected Unvaxxed % infected RR Efficacy Abs RR

Scenario Total N 14134 14073

Infected case 1 86 0.61% 351 2.49% 24.40% 75.60% 1.89%

1 Infected case 2 860 6.08% 3510 24.94% 24.40% 75.60% 18.86%

2 Infected case 3 1290 9.13% 5265 37.41% 24.40% 75.60% 28.29%

3 Infected case 4 1720 12.17% 7020 49.88% 24.40% 75.60% 37.71%

4 Infected case 5 2150 15.21% 8775 62.35% 24.40% 75.60% 47.14%

5 Infected case 6 2580 18.25% 10530 74.82% 24.40% 75.60% 56.57%

6 Infected case 7 3010 21.30% 12285 87.29% 24.40% 75.60% 66.00%

7 Infected case 8 3440 24.34% 14040 99.77% 24.40% 75.60% 75.43%

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