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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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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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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that there are things within us that are so dark and toxic that they *must* first be projected before the projection is withdrawn.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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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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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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