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  • Rilichu@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlJBP has got u bro
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    10 months ago

    90% of his advice is pretty much just boilerplate self help stuff you can find in thousands of books on Amazon. That stuff gets you in the door and is meant to develop a sense of trust because you might see initial improvement and feel good from the advice.

    It’s when he does the rug pull and starts introducing trad nonsense into it that determines how willing a person is to keep following through on listening to him.

    Like you mentioned, this is an extremely common tactic used by religious leaders as well as cults. Back in the mid 20th century when the whole self help craze started, many cults took to framing themselves as self help groups to attract outsiders. NXIVM is probably the most infamous example of this. The first few meetings should seem like a normal support group but would soon start ramping up into full on cult mode.





  • I was curious and immediately got disappointed. This is his current pinned tweet he posted like a week ago:

    "Success is mostly imitation. We study successful people and then try to imitate what worked.

    Imagine being Black, learning the history of slavery and racism, and being asked to imitate your oppressors to succeed. That’s the problem with ESG, CRT, DEI.

    They create a “Don’t imitate” glass ceiling. A dirty truth is that White people hate imitating White people too. I mean, yes, I do some air guitar, but I hate myself for it."

    He’s saying CRT is telling black people to go around enslaving white people or that “talking about racism is the real racism” type bs? I can’t really tell the heck the guy is trying to say.