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A Boy Named Ana. 💕 Twitter busker. Trans boy in love with another trans boy, both doing our best. ☀ Pronouns: He/Him or Xie/Xer. (Pronounced: zee/zur.)

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    Ana Mardoll‏ @AnaMardoll Jan 8

    Ana Mardoll Retweeted Shel 'The Dog' Raphen

    This is dangerously simplistic. It's ok to tell a cult member "hey, if you ever need out, call me day or night and I'll be there." That's fine. But if you stay Good Buddies in an attempt to be a lifeline? You'll probably get pulled in.https://twitter.com/workingdog_/status/1347558360808370176 …

    Ana Mardoll added,

    Shel 'The Dog' Raphen @workingdog_
    But if you know someone personally who is in the cult? Do NOT cut them out. You are their lifeline out of the cult. Leaving the cult usually means burning bridges with your entire community and everyone and everything important in your life, for a world that hates you
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      2. Ana Mardoll‏ @AnaMardoll Jan 8

        I say this as an ex-cult member and in agreement with @edgar_a_bitch's thread on this subject. Cults are VERY GOOD at recruiting and you, personally, are almost certainly not as good at resisting recruitment as we all like to believe we are.

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      3. Ana Mardoll‏ @AnaMardoll Jan 8

        I mean, you might be the 1 in 100 exception that you can't be pulled into a cult, but I promise you that the other 99 people who were pulled in all thought they were that person who couldn't be recruited.

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      4. Ana Mardoll‏ @AnaMardoll Jan 8

        If you want to be a lifeline friend to a cult member, it's absolutely vital that you not be a FRIEND-friend. You can't be. You can't read that pamphlet they want to discuss with you. You can't have that friendly discussion about their beliefs. You can't be a normal friend.

        1 reply 41 retweets 403 likes
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      5. Ana Mardoll‏ @AnaMardoll Jan 8

        "No, you know how I feel about your beliefs. No, I'm not reading that. No, I'm not having this discussion. No. If you ever need a hand out of that situation, you have my number." That's pretty much all you can say to them.

        2 replies 32 retweets 441 likes
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      6. Ana Mardoll‏ @AnaMardoll Jan 8

        Cults are *designed* to draw you in with little breadcrumbs of discussion and immersion in their worldview. You think it's gonna start out with the wackiest silliest stuff, but it doesn't. They feed you tiny reasonable lies and false truths bit by bit. They're VERY GOOD at it.

        3 replies 49 retweets 424 likes
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      7. Ana Mardoll‏ @AnaMardoll Jan 8

        The truth is, you are probably never going to be able to pull from a cult someone who WANTS to be there. You MIGHT be able to be their ride if they decide on their own to leave, but that really only happens when the abuse outweighs the rewards.

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      8. Ana Mardoll‏ @AnaMardoll Jan 8

        Your parents who are watching Fox religiously probably aren't going to reach that abuse threshold because it's not an "in person" cult dynamic. In that case, cutting them off might be the better option for jarring them awake. Or it might not.

        2 replies 10 retweets 315 likes
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      9. Ana Mardoll‏ @AnaMardoll Jan 8

        That's one of the frustrating scary things about cults: you don't know if laying down an ultimatum will wake them up or if they'll cling to their new god more than to their own family.

        2 replies 21 retweets 333 likes
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      10. Ana Mardoll‏ @AnaMardoll Jan 8

        We absolutely need to approach these rightwing conspiracy groups like cults, but we have to understand that (a) no one is immune from recruitment and (b) these new "online" cults are harder to rescue people from than the old "in person" cults.

        2 replies 67 retweets 388 likes
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      11. Ana Mardoll‏ @AnaMardoll Jan 8

        And unfortunately way too many folks confidently think that cults only trap "stupid" people, and openly fantasize about being a kind face to a Nazi and suddenly rescuing them after buying them a sandwich. Cults don't work like that.

        1 reply 28 retweets 351 likes
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      12. Ana Mardoll‏ @AnaMardoll Jan 8

        It's why we're so adamant about not being friends with white supremacists. You think you'll bring them out, but they will instead bring you in. They're trained in highly effective recruitment techniques that you aren't trained to resist. And your confidence is a liability.

        3 replies 77 retweets 457 likes
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      13. Ana Mardoll‏ @AnaMardoll Jan 8

        Anyway, none of this is meant to pick on OP, sorry, but I'm seeing a lot of advice lately about how to be a lifeline to people in cults and most of it is either wrong or actively dangerous or just doesn't apply to "online" cults.

        1 reply 12 retweets 246 likes
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      14. Ana Mardoll‏ @AnaMardoll Jan 8

        Ana Mardoll Retweeted Lizzy Majerus

        Unfortunately, as long as a cult is satisfying an emotional need, the cultist usually won't leave unless more basic physical needs are threatened, either by the cult itself or by association with the cult.https://twitter.com/lizzymajerus/status/1347617927617540097?s=19 …

        Ana Mardoll added,

        Lizzy Majerus @lizzymajerus
        Replying to @AnaMardoll
        Do you have any thoughts or advice on methods to try to get people out of these new online cults? My aunt has been falling headlong into conspiracy theories since 2016 and my mom is at her wits end trying to pull her out
        2 replies 27 retweets 283 likes
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      15. Ana Mardoll‏ @AnaMardoll Jan 8

        That's why some online rightwingers will back away when they realize their employment is threatened: the emotional appeal of the cult couldn't compete with the physical needs of food, shelter, etc.

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      16. Ana Mardoll‏ @AnaMardoll Jan 8

        It's also why social shunning works on Nazis and why we don't offer to buy them lunch; they need to experience the drawbacks of being in the cult in order to leave it.

        1 reply 85 retweets 419 likes
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      17. Ana Mardoll‏ @AnaMardoll Jan 8

        And it's why cutting off your Fox News parents *might* help jar them awake: if the emotional needs of a relationship with their children outweigh the emotional rewards of their racism cult. But it might not, which of course can hurt a lot when you're the kid in question.

        3 replies 19 retweets 275 likes
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      18. Ana Mardoll‏ @AnaMardoll Jan 8

        It's also why it's vitally important that the insurrectionists from yesterday be prosecuted correctly according to the law.

        1 reply 16 retweets 238 likes
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      19. Ana Mardoll‏ @AnaMardoll Jan 8

        A lot of folks fantasize about saving cultists by being a kind stranger, but cults ARE kind to their members. Sort of. The cult satisfies a deep emotional need that (as a stranger in the checkout line next to the Nazi) you're not going to be able to compete with.

        3 replies 40 retweets 318 likes
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      20. Ana Mardoll‏ @AnaMardoll Jan 8

        Mind you, there's a difference between people who join cults and people born into them, but "online" cults are composed mostly of voluntary joiners, which is a big part of the problem.

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