New docuseries explores the "Love Has Won" cult

Originally published at: New docuseries explores the "Love Has Won" cult | Boing Boing

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You only have to pay J.R. “Bob” Dobbs $35 for that.

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Predators like Carlson have been following the same toxic playbook for so long that they should have mandatory warning labels slapped on their foreheads.

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Caitlin Doughty did a video about Amy Carlson’s death that’s interesting…

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My wife and I have watched a lot of these documentaries, and I keep coming away with one main thought, and that is that it seems to be frighteningly easy to get a bunch of people to give you money for almost nothing in return. Like, if I was an amoral sociopath, I could be a cult leader.

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They target very vulnerable and desperate people. Substance abuse rehabs and 12-step meetings are favourite hunting grounds for them.

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samo, samo…

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“… Whereas Socialism, and even capitalism in a more grudging way, have said to people ‘I offer you a good time,’ Hitler has said to them ‘I offer you struggle, danger and death,’ and as a result a whole nation flings itself at his feet.”

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Stupid stupid stupid…

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The struggle continues.

Unless HBO actually meant evacuating the person. By UFO, no less.

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I just watched this one. Seems like there’s a rash of online cults these days.

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