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[-] CraigOhMyEggo@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

No worries then, it's algorithm-based, not religion-based (I am agnostic).

[-] CraigOhMyEggo@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 days ago

That's a bit oddly specific, this wasn't intended to be about that, but alright. I'm not one of them but know enough people who are to know she goes overboard with her criticisms sometimes. For example, she singles certain people out for their "treasure hunting" when it was a folk tradition practiced by many people at the time, misconstrues their dress code on more than one occasion, and paints Joseph Smith's expression of polygamy as dirty when, if it was as dirty as people say, it would've been one of the crimes he was charged with by the courts. I singled her out because she's the easiest person to get stuck seeing on the front page, so it quite literally and unavoidably feels in your face, thus it's a bit of a meme right now to cite her.

I feel like this comment of yours is a jab against me, but Leah Remini herself, after being asked to weigh in on Mormonism, said it's nowhere near as bad as people paint it, so I at least have the OG to help back things up.

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Before anyone gets the wrong idea, no, I'm not talking about the movie/show The Watchmen. I'm referring to the ancient philosophical question "quis custodiet ipsos custodes" or "who watches the watchmen". Go read up on that elsewhere.

For those of you who don't know and need a summary here, it's a question often posed in reference to the fact that the person or people in charge of making sure the rules are honored have nothing preventing them from disobeying the rules. There's never anything preventing the person guarding your treasure from stealing some of the treasure, for example.

What's the best remedy to this that you can think of?

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I ask this during a time when it has become trendy to "expose" the inner workings of so-called cults. Ever since Leah Remini started doing her exposé gig with her time spent in Scientology, different people have come forward claiming to have been in cults, sometimes seeing cults where they don't even exist (which is why I've often joked this is the "new new atheist movement" or the "Mephistopheles panic", a joke on the fact it's just another Satanic panic). The comments section never sees it my way, but I can see through a lot of these cough cough Alyssa Grenfall cough cough

However, nobody in this part of the media has ever been known for complete honesty/accuracy. For example, there were survivor tips that used to circulate on there for people who were stuck in the desert, and many of these tips, such as vaporizing your pee to drink it, would most likely kill you.

But there are many of you who have expertise or opinions that draw you against some people more than others. What such people do you disagree with or object to the most?

[-] CraigOhMyEggo@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 days ago

Partially but not entirely.

[-] CraigOhMyEggo@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days ago

That's correct.

[-] CraigOhMyEggo@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 days ago

That's 100% what I mean. I didn't have the right words for it though.

[-] CraigOhMyEggo@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 days ago

Refresh me on that, what happened?

[-] CraigOhMyEggo@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago

Enabling as in justifying something that normally cannot be justified.

[-] CraigOhMyEggo@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago

Gaslighting, as in those times when you tell your spouse the kitchen is on fire and they say "oh you're just imagining things, that's the aurora borealis in there".

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[-] CraigOhMyEggo@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago

It's a sequel to a previous question. I've been watching people bombard someone I met with claims that she must be a narcissist/schizophrenic/whatever based on trivial disagreements and them thinking she thinks she's always right (despite the people saying that being in a very specific demographic), and in turn other people saying she comes off as thinking she's always right as an immune response to people gaslighting her in the first place. She posted a few demonstration videos on Tiktok which one of the supposed gaslighters then decided to infringe the copyright on and post on YT saying it makes them look good (ironically the "gaslighter" is coordinated with another infamous guy who has pushed the same agenda). And here I am trying to find a way to ask "wtf is this" but can't because the AITA groups either don't allow people saying things on others' behalf or don't allow the video format. At this moment there's a new video from her that hasn't been deleted yet (she deletes the ones that are copied) but which is inevitably going to be deleted when the other guy replicates it.

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