For the final time, unless something notable happens, as the issue is getting tedious, this post goes into the slope Tribe members are rolling down and the debris (delusions) they are picking up as they descend, judging by their guru’s latest claims. Hopefully there isn’t a forest compound or Kool Aid container waiting at the foot of that slope, years from now.
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The following video dropped today and is a perfect encapsulation of ignorance, the ignorance itself reaching perfection, as not one audience member who watched, liked or commented pointed out that Sheridan had mistaken intersectionality for a nebulous soup of leftist attitudes he had termed intersectionalism.
Mind that he put it in the title and made it the main theme of his video. He didn’t even bother to look up the definition. In fact, he even butchered the word.
It doesn’t matter, does it? It’s something something wicked leftist aliens.
“The wickedness of intersectionalism“
This is the basic definition on Wikipedia:
The term dates back to 1989, coined by feminist Kimberle Crenshaw, and has nothing to to with Karl Marx, who had died almost 100 years prior – this Snowball-type character Sheridan blames all the ills of the world on.
As an example, in some parts of the US, if you’re black, you may have less opportunities. If you’re black and poor, even less. If you’re black, poor and disabled, even less. If you’re black, poor, disabled and homeless, even less. A person can belong to several disadvantaged categories at the same time, having a cumulative impact on their trajectory. Equally, a person can belong to categories granting them privilege. Here’s where we get to the reason behind Sheridan’s rant, which is hilarious.
The wickedness of intersectionalism (that’s not a word) flew at Thomas Sheridan when he watched an establishment bootlicker on The View defend Joe Biden’s decision to pardon his son, Hunter Biden, convicted of a tax-related crime and lying on a form to obtain a gun while addicted to drugs. Sheridan paints this as typical leftist behaviour and somehow connected to the evils of intersectionality and Marxism.
Unbeknownst to him, the example he chose perfectly exemplifies intersectionality: Hunter Biden embodies privilege from many angles. He’s a white man born into a generationally rich family with deep political roots, now being the president’s son. This confluence of traits led to him getting away with criminal offences in a manner that nobody else would.
Never mind that the US establishment is not leftist in the slightest and never mind every imputation to leftists by Sheridan and his Tribe, derived from that false equivalency.
Instead, Sheridan paints intersectionality as a combination of leftist attitudes, such as being for open borders, being a climate change activist or protesting against police brutality in the US. Luckily for him, his cult is absolutely clueless. The possibility of him being clueless as well doesn’t even occur to members. Not that they would necessarily care. They clicked to hear the enemy being fought by this knowledgeable and wise individual.
Any Renfields in the bushes lately? These people are as far from reality as one can possibly get. Here’s a distant cousin of Lord Xenu’s:
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Sheridan also discusses piling certain labels onto people showing independent thought, such as labelling those who refused the Covid vaccine as far-right. What he doesn’t tell you is that some circles, who were indeed far-right, believed the pandemic to be a Jewish plot. For someone to be labelled as such just for questioning the safety of an experimental vaccine is implausible. Again, nothing to do with intersectionality.
“Natural law” creates a dog-eat-dog world, apparently
According to Sheridan, the left promises an egalitarian utopia which is impossible, as natural law imposes hierarchies, since animals eat each other in the wild (and so should we, although he doesn’t say that explicitly, merely suggesting it). He made references to the genocide in Gaza and how people opposing it are naive. It makes sense now that he shrugs at the sight of massacres and ethnic cleansing for land grabs, if this is how he thinks.
Predation and lack of conscience are a modus vivendi for psychopaths, which Sheridan knows, as he wrote books about them. This is what he now sells to his audience. They don’t notice.
Simultaneously, he uses notions such as “evil” and “wicked”, as if he operated within a moral framework, when he clearly doesn’t. If people are just predatory animals, as he claims, there is no such thing as good an evil.
The video contains so much drivel (it’s drivel form start to finish) that it’s tempting to respond to each point, a sentence at a time. However, that would take too long . I can’t but marvel at this ability to churn out self-interested defences of sociopathic genocide support and his group not being a cult, always in roundabout ways, that appear meaningful when they mean absolutely nothing.
Once you see the unseriousness, the mumbo jumbo, you cannot unsee it.
There is one more interesting line: Sheridan going full Molyneux, by claiming that leftists first throw out slurs against detractors, to later line them up and machine-gun them. Also a white nationalist cult leader advising members to cut ties with friends and family.
Hiding from Renfields and demons is just introversion, apparently
In November, Thomas Sheridan alerted his Tribe of a sudden Renfield invasion, urging members to remain indoors and avoid human/oid interaction. He claimed demon-possessed woke people, controlled by aliens or what have you, were animalistically drawn to the Tribe-minded, seeking to attack them. The light of a Tribe member must shine so bright and this is definitely not delusional.
In a bid to sound less cultish, evidently realising how his advice of bunkering down may have come across, he extolled the merits of self-isolation, describing it as something many people (specifically men) choose nowadays, of their own volition, driven by their introverted nature, but also repelled by the normie culture they’re surrounded by.
While a person’s mind is very likely wired to facilitate self-isolation, for this tactic to work on them, the brainwashing is at least half of the impetus.
Introversion entails becoming overstimulated easily in social situations, preferring solitary activities and extended time to oneself. The person is perfectly content that way. It is unrelated to beliefs about the world or being misanthropic.
Social anxiety, in contrast, is perceived as impairing to various degrees, causing difficulties in someone’s daily life (missed opportunities, poor communication skills, low self esteem as a result etc.). Social phobia is the extreme version and causes someone to be afraid of interacting with most people – the difference being they realise they have a problem, as opposed to claiming the entire world does. It’s a crippling fear of making mistakes; it’s an inferiority complex. The fear of being rejected, judged or bullied, while exaggerated, is still based on something possible; these things happen and most people have built-in resilience to deal with them, that the socially-anxious have less of. People suffering from these conditions want to integrate and function better; they often seek help to improve their confidence.
These issues have nothing to do with the phantasm of the world being ruled by nefarious cosmic forces trying to spread Marxism, or any other type of hysteria.
With this claim, with an emphasis on men who have “evolved” to no longer need partners, or anyone at all, Sheridan achieves two things: minimising the cultish nature of his group (the direct impact of his scaremongering) and dog-whistling to the “manosphere”, including its radical faction, MGTOW. These groups are part and parcel of the far-right nowadays, men being utterly dissatisfied with women’s ability to live independently. The pick-me types orbiting such men never last long, as they are inevitably abused by them. If you look up former trad wives, you can hear from some who have woken up in a very unpleasant way. What does a woman become in the company of a rage-filled/ condescending misanthrope who finds fault with everything around him 24/7? An emotional punching bag, as he needs to control something.
There are comments from Tribe members who were left by their wives/partners for becoming far-right. These types are so taken in that they don’t understand how difficult it is to live around them, never mind in the same house. Their brain fever resembles religious zealotry, not just political affiliation: they see manifestations of wokeness everywhere they turn their heads and start ranting. Whoever is subjected to these people becomes miserable and wants to stop having to deal with their hateful doomsday crap 24/7.
Are Tribe members content and self-reliant? Granted, some come across that way – the ones who aren’t living in constant paranoia. These are normal examples of introversion:
Many, however, are misanthropic to the point of indiscriminate hatred of non-members or/and terrified of the outdoors. The guru has lambasted large groups of people on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion and politics, as enemies of the Tribe, increasingly telling members to avoid associating with anyone outside the group (in general, not just during Renfield infestations).
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These people are afraid of the cashier in Lidl. But the future is theirs, is it?
Years ago, a former high-ranking Scientologist perfectly described the contrast between reality and cult fantasy. While in the cult, in the canteen with a group of other high-ranking members, he was offered access to a rare treat: a platter of cookies. Members were overworked and underfed; they rushed to the platter and each tried to grab as many as they could. It dawned on him at some point that they were supposed to be the most advanced humans on the planet, yet there they were, elbowing each other over biscuits.
Without speculating on what might’ve been going on in the case above – society has issues with being labelled as a demon-possessed hoard of zombies; whoever espouses such ideas may be seen as a potential menace. After all, no mass shooter was known for their love and respect for fellow humans. I’m in no way suggesting Tribe members are prone to such actions – just that there is a commonality in terms of dehumanising those around them.
Ironically, it’s Sheridan & co arguing that non-members cause them issues just by existing and minding their own business:
For a cult leader, it’s perfectly logical to only (or mostly) interact with the cult, receiving adulation and the privilege of not being questioned. For members, it must take a strong belief to alienate everyone around them. Recently, Sheridan described those who aren’t Tribe-minded as draining his energy and assumed his flock felt the same way. It must be irritating to be treated like a normal person on occasion. While some members seem genuinely scared, the leader oozes contempt for his own species.
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Shocker: the guru doesn’t want members to get therapy
Sheridan ridiculed going to therapy, as a habit of normie women (he made a clear distinction from women in the Tribe, the latter being special by default), who are all on psychotropics to fix their unhappiness. I wonder why he’s uncomfortable with members opening up about their crippling fear of Renfields and Marxist aliens!
While suggesting psychology is a waste of time (what else can one infer?), he himself wrote books about psychopathology, drawing from the work of others who had actually studied it. In fact, he often uses notions pertaining to psychology, generally as weapons, labelling others with personality disorders ad hoc or referring to them as psychotic – which, again, is incredibly ironic.
Focusing on the second symptom, delusions, this is what Thomas Sheridan is attempting to induce in Tribe members (and succeeding). Again, there’s the example of the anti-racist peace demonstrators in Dublin, at the beginning of summer, when Sheridan warned his cult that demonstrators were all possessed by demons and would feed on Tribe members’ energy if eye contact was made.
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It was only a matter of time until Sheridan, like Hubbard, resolute on messing with people’s heads unobstructed, turned against treatment modalities, suggesting perhaps that mental health issues could be fixed with white nationalism and self-isolation. Their issues benefit cult leaders, as they can be curated and exacerbated towards the leader’s purposes.
Shoosh, don’t even suggest that; your guru can’t get enough of referring to women he doesn’t like as having BPD. He quickly pathologises anyone outside of the group.
Disorders, it’s very accurate, continue to be studied and new findings are revealed periodically. However, it has been proven that some are caused by early trauma and are not natural variations; even less, as this comment suggests, indicators of functionality and health compared to the general population.
Enemies
Scientology makes clear differentiations between outgroup categories, according to how they relate to it: Suppressive Persons, Potential Trouble Sources, neutral individuals (I forgot the name) etc. The Tribe, of late, declares everyone outside the group as an enemy.
The Tribe is of the variety that doesn’t require constant proselytism, the insistence being on each member cutting ties with the outside world. Online cults can spread effortlessly, often aided by their affixing, akin to pond leeches, to broader ideologies (in Sheridan’s case, white nationalism, MAGA/ Q-Anon, Paganism, antivax etc.; if he embraced the flat earth theory, his audience would double, as flat earthers tend to agree with him on everything else).
Teal Swan for instance established herself by discussing trauma and healing, being recommended by algorithms to those seeking that type of material. She was versed in adding the right tags for her videos to be suggested alongside those of professionals. Little did most people know, in the early years, that she was claiming to be an alien from the made-up planet Arcturius. The content itself came across as innocuous and comforting to many. They later had trouble believing this was a destructive individual.
In a previous post, I made the error of assigning the Tribe label normies to the world’s population in general (in urban jargon, that’s what it means), enemy groups being distinct. Cults may avoid demonising the entire planet, as they need to grow their ranks; the general populace is a recruitment pool. This applies particularly to self-help cults like LGATs, who need a constant influx of new members and recruiters.
To the Tribe, normies are just as dangerous and repugnant as NPCs, Renfields, Golems, or any other category I’m unaware of. Sheridan uses these words interchangeably to designate the sub-human (everyone else minus the Tribe). The untermensch.
The promise of the far-right: rejoice; others will have it much worse than you now
There is no shortage of people embracing far-right mentalities currently, mainly due to austerity policies imposed by governments; it’s very easy for the Trumps and Farages (who have never known privation themselves) to scapegoat ethnic minorities, and not the pyramid-shaped system itself, for the country’s struggles. Ironically, social progressivism is mixed into the broth by adherents, who associate it with supporting immigration; meanwhile, ethnic minorities they target are just a socially conservative as them or more. It’s a paradox.
The far right only promises other people’s pain, to watch and rejoice, and not the betterment of its supporters’ lives, as it seeks to sustain oligarchs, corporations, the war industry and so forth – the perpetual exploitation of the many for the benefit of the few.
The masses gain satisfaction from the persecution of scapegoats and the elevation of symbols – flags, jingoism, empty tropes about values and culture they can only name but never define and so forth. In reality, even the “ethnically pure” are ideologically divided. Symbols won’t feed them or keep their homes warm, but at least they get to spit on the neighbour as he gets deported after a decade of picking fruit or working in factories. That’s their moment of glory.
Being a far-right bootlicker is a choice one cannot undo; it involves praising moral abominations no decent person will ever forget. The world is always in flux and these inclinations don’t last forever. I’m convinced that had prominent far-right demagogues not been Zionists in unison, conflating Zionism with Judaism, Sheridan would likely indulge antisemites openly as well, not just sideways, by obsessing over the cultural bolshevism and great replacement theories.
A great deal of emotion is being poured into an event that isn’t happening, as Sheridan describes the pivoting of career grifters and establishment bootlickers to ingratiate themselves with the new administration, the old one being thoroughly discredited. Those people were never sincere in their leaning towards the left in the first place. However, the brain fever of Tribe members causes them to think the left died overnight, so that Sheridan can paint a brand new reality map for his cult on a blank canvas.
They really want to attribute a spiritual dimension to an egomaniacal obscenely rich man, good friend of Jeffery Epstein’s, known, among other things, as a serial sexual assaulter of women. Hail the orange Messiah, may he bless many more porn stars with hush money.
Here are some interesting Tribe takes on Francisco Franco, who killed tens of thousands in Spain and was a far-right dictator for a few decades. Their type, obviously. Here’s Franco giving the Nazi salute:
The following is a common talking point and extremely idiotic. Why, I wonder, are people trying to survive on a daily basis, while bombs rain on their houses, not concerned with debating religious precepts and modifying dynamics in their society? Maybe they’re too busy digging people from under the rubble. And surely, according to Sheridan and this deep thinker below, their children deserve to be blown to bits as well, because their elders haven’t advanced enough as a society. Right?
Not to mention the hypocrisy of this group, never getting enough of impugning Pride events, using the word degeneracy often, based on Abrahamic precepts. All while their dear orange Messiah was/is a sexual predator who, again, was a close friend of Epstein’s.
Here’s a theory: the bright light emanated by Tribe members, drawing the Renfields towards them, is actually caused by constant short-circuits in their brains, filled with so much contradictory information.
The paradox of the collective – country and mankind
As they worship symbols and tropes, Tribe members don’t stop to think about their attitudes in real time towards their fellow countrymen and mankind in general.
What is the country? An abstract notion? Isn’t it full of the people they detest, the communities they hide in their houses to avoid meeting in Asda? The normies, the woke, the brainwashed, the vaccinated, the Renfields? Isn’t anyone outside of their group subhuman? Didn’t Sheridan say a few months ago that most people shouldn’t be allowed to vote as they’re too stupid?
So what are they serving exactly? A utopian far-right projection into the future, as Sheridan just said cults promised their followers?
In order for their far-right utopia to work, they would have to either convert, subjugate or eliminate those who don’t agree with them. Which is, at this point in time, most of the population. I’m sure some of them would be fine with either option; however, it’s not looking likely. Then what?
The same goes for their lament for mankind. They hate most of it! Part of it on racial and religious grounds and the rest, should it pass through the purity strainer, based on political affiliation. So again, what are we talking about here?
Nostalgic cult references to Alan Watt
Although they were on a radio show (or something similar) together many years ago, critiquing the establishment and mass manipulation, the direction Sheridan has taken of late couldn’t be more different from Watt’s. Tribe members reference him quite a bit; it’s surprising. Here are two examples:
Maybe this person should listen while fully awake.
Notable differences:
- Watt derided those who spoke of aliens and such as controlled opposition designed to attract ridicule; Sheridan does exactly that;
- Watt warned about individuals becoming isolated by design, referencing Huxley’s Brave New World, refusing to interact with others;
- Watt encouraged cooperation and building bridges within communities, unlike Sheridan, who wants his followers to avoid anyone not “Tribe-minded”;
- Watt opposed jingoism, warmongering, US imperialism (he linked to the documentary Reel Bad Arabs as a must watch; he was against the colonial state of Israel; Sheridan is in favour of all of the above;
- Watt was pro-life, talking often about the value of human life and the dangers of diminishing it arbitrarily. Not only does Sheridan support elective abortion (that is not an absolutely necessary); he supports genocide (after having written books about Nazi Germany, mind you).
In short, Alan Watt, who was a decades-long researcher and did not make things up as he went along, would probably turn in his grave currently, as a result of this association. Anyone who listened carefully would understand that. The man was consistent throughout the years in his message and values, as well as his use of many references for each talk, unlike Sheridan, who improvises on the spot and goes on prolonged rants about concepts like intersectionalism, that he claims to know everything about, even though it doesn’t exist.
Tribe members are independent thinkers
Critical thinking comes so naturally that they believe a guy they watch on YouTube can identify demonic possession on the spot, as well as diagnose strangers without a degree. The latter is a common pastime nowadays; the first, however, should at least raise some eyebrows. He can also tell you the psychic weather of the planet and whether you, in Honolulu, should lock yourself in the basement for a month.
Poor soul. It’s all fiction and you are in gaga land, where the world’s equilibrium is being restored by a Lolita Express passenger.
Their view of the world is very simplistic (four legs good, two legs bad) and concentrated into symbols. The comment below is fascinating, as if anyone declaring themselves liberal (including a genocide supporter sold to lobbies, like Harris) were powered by a slowly dying entity or machine at the same time:
And finally….
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