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It's important to welcome people leaving cults, no matter how dumb it looks that they were in the cult in the first place. The main reason they were there is community, and if they don't find a welcoming community outside, they'll go right back in.

It's all they have.

I don't get what was wrong with forums in the first place, that motivated this shift to Discord. Forums seem far more usable.

Is Satan controlled opposition? Is he heaven's Chuck Schumer?

We can use Trump's memorandum from December as a guide:

The memorandum identifies “anti-Christian,” “anti-capitalism” or “anti-American” views as potential indicators that a group or person will commit domestic terrorism.

The memorandum claims that political violence originates with “anti-fascist” groups that hold the following views: “support for the overthrow of the United States Government; extremism on migration, race, and gender; and hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family, religion, and morality.”

Source: Labeling dissent as terrorism: New US domestic terrorism priorities raise constitutional alarms

So anyone who isn't a Christian, capitalist, fascist, racist, homophobe, transphobe, and misogynist will be classified as a potential terrorist and subject to anti-terrorist actions.

We can pray for the demise of Christofascism, but it's going to be our job to make that prayer come true.

The one-sided narrative is what we were all fed for three quarters of a century. Now they're just furious that the other side of the story is becoming more widely known. If Israel hadn't so obviously decided on a policy of genocide towards Palestinians, it might have stood a better chance of continuing to control the narrative. But we've seen Israel committing the most appalling torture and mass slaughter every day for years and celebrating it, despite it also killing as many journalists as it can to prevent the truth being told. Our understanding of the story is rebalancing, and Israel's propagandists hate that.

A lot of people chose Bitwarden because it was open-source, so they don't see the very closed Apple Passwords as a suitable alternative.

Or it's something you earn through transparency.

Don't forget all the water and electricity that will be taken away from the people.

It also fosters a culture of non-cooperation with colleagues (because they are now your competition), where workers and teams try to sabotage each other, or at least not help, and throw each other under the bus. So there's mutual mistrust too. And no one wants to take a risk and innovate, leading to further stagnation.

Meta is doing the exact same thing:

Mark Zuckerberg's social media giant will reportedly hand out roughly 8,000 pink slips on Wednesday, May 20, eliminating about 10% of its global workforce. Notably, though, these cuts will arrive on the heels of one of the most lucrative quarters in the company's history: $56.31 billion in revenue and $26.8 billion in net income for the first three months of 2026...

https://moneywise.com/news/top-stories/meta-layoffs-8000-workers-zuckerberg-ai-spending