I always learn a lot by reading Mundabor's blog. Today he used a term that struck a chord when he called the pages on Reddit where folks claim Ukraine is winning the war "Gaslighting Central:" Here's a bit of what he wrote:The method used by the propagandists is very simple: a lot of videos of unclear source, plus repeating all the obvious lies of the Ukrainian Government, plus belittling every loss. Russia’s downfall is always a
bout to happen. Their losses assume fantastic proportions for people who, actually, shell the Ukrainians 10 to 1 most of the time (this is, by the way, admitted by many Ukrainian sources themselves). Severodonetsk was to be Putin’s Stalingrad. When it was lost, it became irrelevant in the great scheme of things because hey, we have Lisichansk. When Lisichansk, too, was lost, well that was a victory of sort because we inflicted to the Russians (de-humanised as orcs; it helps a lot by massacres) sooooo many purely imaginary losses we are now well, well in front of them. Then we keep retreating, and they keep advancing. But hey, they must be so, so demoralised!
Yep, I'm a #MeToo victim of gaslighting and had just watched GASLIGHT (making comparisons) on YouTube a few days before Steve Skojec's September 25th article - Pope Francis is Gaslighting You. That's a Form of Spiritual Abuse - on his One Peter Five blog. The coincidence led me to want to warn others about this evil psychological abuse.
See the cartoon of Hillary gaslighting by her deceit and lies? Now, in your mind, replace her face with that of Pope Francis (since I couldn't find an equivalent cartoon for him), or spouse, relative, friend or co-worker and in one quote have him/them tell you something you want to hear, then in the next quote have him/them contradict what he/they just said. That's gaslighting. It's systematic deception used as a manipulation tactic to gain power, and Pope Francis is an expert at it.
