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Ridicule as a Key Technique of Thought Reform
Freep | 10-18-2015 | Charles O'Connell

Posted on 10/18/2015 7:44:02 AM PDT by CharlesOConnell

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We have endured no end of ridicule from the arrogant, of contempt from the proud. - Psalm 123:4

All those who see Me ridicule Me; They shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying, "He trusted in the Lord, let Him rescue Him; Let Him deliver Him, since He delights in Him!" - Psalm 22:7-8

1 posted on 10/18/2015 7:44:03 AM PDT by CharlesOConnell
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To: CharlesOConnell

lets start using this on the Left for a change, turnabout is fair play...


2 posted on 10/18/2015 7:47:49 AM PDT by Rumplemeyer (The GOP should stand its ground - and fix Bayonets)
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To: Rumplemeyer

For ridicule to work, the subjects must have a conscience. So, trying it on libs is mostly a wasted effort.


3 posted on 10/18/2015 7:52:32 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: CharlesOConnell
the Left is toying with a marketing technique based on gradual subversion, called "nudging," by the despicable Cass Sunstein, who co-authored a book about it.The basic idea, which is psychologically sound, is to gradually widen the peoples' range of what is acceptable, without exciting resistance and blow back, so that over time, one's own position can be induced to shift in the desired direction.

Most likely the Left will overreach and not have the patience and subtlety to make this work; but make no mistake: for the vast majority who are not strongly ego-involved in a given point of view, it can be a powerful strategy for influence.

4 posted on 10/18/2015 7:53:04 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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“When she self-imploded during her Iowa Freedom Summit address...”

“...jumped the shark...”

She didn’t implode at the Iowa Freedom Summit. Nor has she jumped the shark.


5 posted on 10/18/2015 7:54:30 AM PDT by ifinnegan
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To: CharlesOConnell

Shame and ridicule used to be society’s number 1 tool for enforcing the rules. Now we need a law for everything.


6 posted on 10/18/2015 7:54:41 AM PDT by discostu (Up-Up-Down-Down-Left-Right-Left-Right B, A, Start)
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Sarah self imploded in January? Was that in the news...posted here on FR? I must have missed it.


7 posted on 10/18/2015 7:55:34 AM PDT by prisoner6 (Unmutual and Disharmonious)
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To: CharlesOConnell

Liberalism Is A Mental Disorder by Michael Savage

8 posted on 10/18/2015 7:55:41 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: rktman

Conscience, yes, it is required for respect, humility, right and wrong, responsibility and shame.

Still, it is worth a try to ridicule the libs.


9 posted on 10/18/2015 8:05:41 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
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To: CharlesOConnell

I am 63 years old, and still in their faces.

I will continue to think as i have for all those years.

I will continue to call queers what they are, aberrations of human defects, and not fit for society.

I will continue to believe that Negro shouting matches, interruptions of social functions, mass poutings and destructive temper tantrums going back to the Watts riots, have all been handled wrong, for if they were handeld more correctly, these things would not persist, today.

I will continue to speak out and write as i have, since then.

I see corruption, and speak against it.

We are infused with many corrupt elected officials, at all levels, from the municipal dog catcher, to the mulatto queer-in-charge in the White House.

I see queers in this nation celebrated as displays of manhood to the world, which really bodes well for those wishing to destroy this nation, who are also well in the world.

I see the effemination of the male race by the female sex, as a crime against nature. The overbearing mother has been let loose from the jar upon the nation, and that should never have happened.

I see an invasion of unwanted, by the rest of us in the nation but beloved of Washington, invaders from both Ottoman and Spanish ancestry, in this nation. It is plain to see that these invaders and unwanted humans are part of a scheme against the rest of the nation perpetrated in a backroom, or with this president, bathroom stall.

I will defend these things with my blood, should it be necessary.


10 posted on 10/18/2015 8:16:15 AM PDT by Terry L Smith
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“lets start using this on the Left for a change, turnabout is fair play...”

Yes.


11 posted on 10/18/2015 8:25:22 AM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: Sequoyah101

Hmmm. They need help being ridiculed? Or just reminded. :>} Those of us with a conscience see their absurdities, they however do not. Commence mocking in 3, 2,


12 posted on 10/18/2015 8:25:34 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: Rumplemeyer

That is what Trump is doing, you should see his tweets!


13 posted on 10/18/2015 8:32:09 AM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marylin vos Savant)
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14 posted on 10/18/2015 8:35:36 AM PDT by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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I was unaware Sarah Palin jumped the shark. In what way did she do this?


15 posted on 10/18/2015 8:36:56 AM PDT by Excellence (Marine mom since April 11, 2014)
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To: Rumplemeyer

I agree we should start using it. It is an effective tool.


16 posted on 10/18/2015 9:01:57 AM PDT by Jane Austen (Recall Gov. Nikki Haley aka Nimrata Randhawa)
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To: CharlesOConnell

Those are Messianic verses. They were fulfilled in the trial and crucifixion of Christ


17 posted on 10/18/2015 9:12:51 AM PDT by WilliamIII
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To: discostu

“Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.”
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

The really galling thing was seeing Republicans `piling-on’
Sarah Palin, a good woman, person and mother.

That was when it became clear to me that the GOP lacked any conviction to stand up on behalf of its base while the Democrats were passionately intense, but lacked faith in anything of value.


18 posted on 10/18/2015 9:23:54 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: Terry L Smith

Every President since Reagan has been in on the plan to inundate the U.S. with Third World refuse and terrorists and thus end the United States.


19 posted on 10/18/2015 9:38:07 AM PDT by Arthur McGowan (Beau Biden's funeral, attended by Bp. Malooly, Card. McCarrick, and Papal Nuncio, Abp. Vigano.)
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To: tumblindice

I don’t belong to the cult of Sarah. She’s never impressed me. She does OK with talking points, but she wasn’t that great for Alaska. We really know nothing about her as a person. And as a parent she’s failed miserably with at least one kid. Really her greatest accomplishment in life seems to be giving McCain a decent dead cat bounce in the polls, the only week it wasn’t painfully obvious he was going to be crushed was when she got the VP nod, and even then he didn’t lead, he just wasn’t losing badly.


20 posted on 10/18/2015 9:41:10 AM PDT by discostu (Up-Up-Down-Down-Left-Right-Left-Right B, A, Start)
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