Anybody else notice how nationalism is a cult under the BITE model

[ID: a graphic explaining Dr Steven Hassan's BITE model, with the header "methods used to control people by undue influence:"

Behavior: control of physical environment, rigid rules, rewards & punishments, dependence and obedience

Information: deception, propaganda, discourages access to outside sources of information, insider/outsider doctrine

Thought: all/nothing good/evil us/them dogma, encourages only "good and proper" thoughts, thought stopping techniques

Emotional: feeling chosen or special, guilt manipulation, emotion blocking techniques, phobia indoctrination. /end ID]

The united states of america does like, most of this. And so do a lot of other countries

(Squints) yeah like all of that, actually. Forever but here's a current event for reference the tiktok ban is an attempt at information control, like when russia tried to ban discord & everyone just uses a vpn, governments don't want normal people talking to each other because it undermines their power over us 👍 if the civilians start realizing foreigners are people they might start ORGANIZING instead of JOIN THE MILITARY

& I am posting from a usamerican perspective because I am usamerican but I can't stress enough that this is just how nationstates are

Anybody else notice how nationalism is a cult under the BITE model

[ID: a graphic explaining Dr Steven Hassan's BITE model, with the header "methods used to control people by undue influence:"

Behavior: control of physical environment, rigid rules, rewards & punishments, dependence and obedience

Information: deception, propaganda, discourages access to outside sources of information, insider/outsider doctrine

Thought: all/nothing good/evil us/them dogma, encourages only "good and proper" thoughts, thought stopping techniques

Emotional: feeling chosen or special, guilt manipulation, emotion blocking techniques, phobia indoctrination. /end ID]

The united states of america does like, most of this. And so do a lot of other countries

(Squints) yeah like all of that, actually. Forever but here's a current event for reference the tiktok ban is an attempt at information control, like when russia tried to ban discord & everyone just uses a vpn, governments don't want normal people talking to each other because it undermines their power over us 👍 if the civilians start realizing foreigners are people they might start ORGANIZING instead of JOIN THE MILITARY

Anybody else notice how nationalism is a cult under the BITE model

[ID: a graphic explaining Dr Steven Hassan's BITE model, with the header "methods used to control people by undue influence:"

Behavior: control of physical environment, rigid rules, rewards & punishments, dependence and obedience

Information: deception, propaganda, discourages access to outside sources of information, insider/outsider doctrine

Thought: all/nothing good/evil us/them dogma, encourages only "good and proper" thoughts, thought stopping techniques

Emotional: feeling chosen or special, guilt manipulation, emotion blocking techniques, phobia indoctrination. /end ID]

The united states of america does like, most of this. And so do a lot of other countries

Nope now it’s at the point that i’m shocked that people off tt don’t know what’s going down. I have no reach but i’ll sum it up anyway.

SCOTUS is hearing on the constitutionality of the ban as tiktok and creators are arguing that it is a violation of our first amendment rights to free speech, freedom of the press and freedom to assemble.

SCOTUS: tiktok bad, big security concern because china bad!

Tiktok lawyers: if china is such a concern why are you singling us out? Why not SHEIN or temu which collect far more information and are less transparent with their users?

SCOTUS (out loud): well you see we don’t like how users are communicating with each other, it’s making them more anti-american and china could disseminate pro china propaganda (get it? They literally said they do not like how we Speak or how we Assemble. Independent journalists reach their audience on tt meaning they have Press they want to suppress)

Tiktok users: this is fucking bullshit i don’t want to lose this community what should we do? We don’t want to go to meta or x because they both lobbied congress to ban tiktok (free market capitalism amirite? Paying off your local congressmen to suppress the competition is totally what the free market is about) but nothing else is like TikTok

A few users: what about xiaohongshu? It’s the Chinese version of tiktok (not quite, douyin is the chinese tiktok but it’s primarily for younger users so xiaohongshu was chosen)

16 hours later:

Tiktok as a community has chosen to collectively migrate TO a chinese owned app that is purely in Chinese out of utter spite and contempt for meta/x and the gov that is backing them.

My fyp is a mix of “i would rather mail memes to my friends than ever return to instagram reels” and “i will xerox my data to xi jinping myself i do not care i share my ss# with 5 other people anyway” and “im just getting ready for my day with my chinese made coffee maker and my Chinese made blowdryer and my chinese made clothing and listening to a podcast on my chinese made phone and get in my car running on chinese manufactured microchips but logging into a chinese social media? Too much for our gov!” etc.

So the government was scared that tiktok was creating a sense of class consciousness and tried to kill it but by doing so they sent us all to xiaohongshu. And now? Oh it’s adorable seeing this gov-manufactured divide be crossed in such a way.

This is adorable and so not what they were expecting. Im sure they were expecting a reluctant return to reels and shorts to fill the void but tiktokers said fuck that, we will forge connections across the world. Who you tell me is my enemy i will make my friend. That’s pretty damn cool.

Service dogs and other disability assistance animals are a funny concept to me. Like of course disability itself isn't funny but the idea that sometimes people will have a highly trained live-in 24/7 professional medical assistant who also happens to be a beagle.

free my girl. she did all that but so did a male character and nobody cared

This but the genders are swapped

i need everyone to know that i blocked this person pretty much immediately but she then used another blog to start arguing with someone about wheatley in the replies. and after i blocked that second blog she used a THIRD to keep arguing about wheatley

we talk a lot of shit about humorism but they were ON the gut health-mood/mental health link in fucking like ancient greece so who are the real stupid idiots

The really fun thing about historical medicine is that a lot of their ideas about how things worked are like, well, that's a pretty reasonable conclusion to draw given the information they had available to them, even if it seems obviously wrong now from a modern perspective. & then a lot of it is also like man what the hell is all of that about

Like, miasma theory is pretty intuitive, a lot of things that make you sick smell fucking rancid, ergo there's something in the air that makes you sick, which isn't even *wrong* in the case of certain diseases !! They just didn't know about germs yet. There's a lot of stuff like that where people were just slightly off about the how and why. & then they were also just really weird about uteruses

One of my favorite ones that I don't have a source for so this might not be true but I heard somewhere is that because of how victorian surgery was it would almost definitely get infected but they thought white pus was actually a sign of good healing. And well. That IS better than if it's like, Green

We know now that ideally your wounds shouldn't be oozing at all but they weren't wrong that oozing certain colors is worse than others

The really fun thing about historical medicine is that a lot of their ideas about how things worked are like, well, that's a pretty reasonable conclusion to draw given the information they had available to them, even if it seems obviously wrong now from a modern perspective. & then a lot of it is also like man what the hell is all of that about

Like, miasma theory is pretty intuitive, a lot of things that make you sick smell fucking rancid, ergo there's something in the air that makes you sick, which isn't even *wrong* in the case of certain diseases !! They just didn't know about germs yet. There's a lot of stuff like that where people were just slightly off about the how and why. & then they were also just really weird about uteruses

One of my favorite ones that I don't have a source for so this might not be true but I heard somewhere is that because of how victorian surgery was it would almost definitely get infected but they thought white pus was actually a sign of good healing. And well. That IS better than if it's like, Green

The really fun thing about historical medicine is that a lot of their ideas about how things worked are like, well, that's a pretty reasonable conclusion to draw given the information they had available to them, even if it seems obviously wrong now from a modern perspective. & then a lot of it is also like man what the hell is all of that about

Like, miasma theory is pretty intuitive, a lot of things that make you sick smell fucking rancid, ergo there's something in the air that makes you sick, which isn't even *wrong* in the case of certain diseases !! They just didn't know about germs yet. There's a lot of stuff like that where people were just slightly off about the how and why. & then they were also just really weird about uteruses

Something about the four humors that isn't talked about enough is wtf black bile is. Have you ever personally encountered black bile? If bile that is black is coming out of your body in some way I feel like that's indicative of a problem. So in a roundabout way they were onto something there

Whose medieval doctor saw somebody vomiting black slutch and thought "hmm that's not good". They were right but that's internal bleeding babe

"The creator definitely didn't put that much thought into it" well then clearly someone else has to and I think I'm the weirdo for the job

sorry

Digging into the Holmes timeline for Reasons and the fact that “a combination of events, into which I need not enter” caused Holmes and Watson to leave London literally DURING Oscar Wilde’s trial for “gross indecency” (aka having a boyfriend)….. Doyle was friends with Wilde…………..I’m connecting the dots

Okay, so I wanted to find more information on Doyle’s friendship with Wilde, and I didn’t end up needing to look very far, because I’ve been listening to Stephen Fry’s Sherlock Holmes collection and he brings it up it in the foreword to The Sign of Four.

Doyle and Wilde met at a dinner hosted by an American businessman who wanted them both to write books for his magazine. Wilde immediately won Doyle’s heart by complimenting one of his historical novels, which was especially thrilling for Doyle as Wilde was already famous and he (Doyle) hadn’t expected Wilde to have even heard of him.

They did both end up agreeing to write for the magazine. Doyle wrote The Sign of Four and Wilde wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray.

The most interesting part of this whole thing is that Doyle would later go on to gush about Wilde in a memoir written after Wilde’s trial for gross indecency, and in this memoir describes Dorian Gray as “a book that is surely upon a high moral plane.” Which was an incredibly bold stance, given that Dorian Gray was famously cited as evidence against Wilde in his trial.

Fry speculates that some of Holmes’ eccentricities in later books, such as his “murmured elegance of phrasing, dressing gown-lounging bohemian habits, and range of intellectual and artistic reference” may have been inspired by Wilde. He also notes that Langham Hotel, which is was the venue where Wilde and Doyle first met, is name checked in The Sign of Four.

In conclusion, we do NOT ask Holmes and Watson why they left London in 1895.

[Image ID: The “Never Ask a Woman Her Age, A Man His Salary” meme edited so the last panel shows an illustration of Sherlock Holmes and John Watson captioned, “Holmes and Watson, Why they left London in 1895” END ID]