- Joined
- Nov 17, 2019
An interesting thing about the tranch=cult? debate:
Cult leaders often use some vague external threat as a justification for increasingly authoritarian policies. Jim Jones, for example, told his followers that the CIA was out to get them and that any second glowing paratroopers could drop from the sky to wipe out Jonestown. He maintained a state of fear by constantly conducting "White Nights" where the cult members would drill for precisely this occasion, sometimes by rehearsing ritual suicide.
Then they actually committed ritual suicide lol
Isn't the very same thing happening at the tranch? Maybe the "fascist transphobe militia" is not only a clever grift, but also a manipulative tool that Phillip uses to control the rest.
Cult leaders often use some vague external threat as a justification for increasingly authoritarian policies. Jim Jones, for example, told his followers that the CIA was out to get them and that any second glowing paratroopers could drop from the sky to wipe out Jonestown. He maintained a state of fear by constantly conducting "White Nights" where the cult members would drill for precisely this occasion, sometimes by rehearsing ritual suicide.
Then they actually committed ritual suicide lol
Isn't the very same thing happening at the tranch? Maybe the "fascist transphobe militia" is not only a clever grift, but also a manipulative tool that Phillip uses to control the rest.