Psychological Manipulation: Through Gaslighting

Very few people will read this, those that do will understand.

“If we inspire people, they will give us more than we asked for. If we manipulate them, they will give us exactly what we paid for”
– Simon Sinek

In the age of Digital Information, the possibilities are endless, a Digital battlefield of endless nodes of Communications. Psychological warfare is only meant to achieve and objective, Your mind being the target, spiritual is informational.
This “Digital Battlefield,” is fought from every angle. Many foreign enemies to the Western Nations have taken to Cyber Space with a clear objective; distort the enemies perception of reality, while manipulating their feelings.

They use a variation of a few tactics but a few are used often and unnoticed.

First, they will use Ad Hominem to make you doubt yourself as a person, usually through gaslighting.

Second, they will use a combination of Red-Herring and Straw-man Fallacies.

Finally, they will accuse you of what they are doing in order to further the gaslighting.

This tactic sometimes gives the targeted individual the desire to keep responding.

A topic is brought up, at least to your attention…..
You reply to the post on whatever platform you are using, Twitter, Truth Social, Gettr, or Gab; some are even still using Facebook.

The shills always respond, their timing is almost automatic. How do people who do not follow you, or even think of you for a second find a post you made? Do they do it for the sake of validation, or are they engaging in the art of psychological manipulation?

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
– George Orwell

You can know something, while being wrong about what you know. But to criticize an individual based on not knowing something, is no different than you claiming to know everything. Both are logical fallacies, your belief is not what defines you, it is the intended actions you enact due to holding the notion that the idea you believe is the only truth.

I will give a few examples, these accounts are responding to me calling them out on harassing certain individuals.

I once said, “yeah I’m a fake Marine pretending to be myself,” he accused me of being one of the Marines I served with who died in Combat fighting Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan. I proved them wrong, so instead of apologizing one account in particular to it as his mission to harass me; for what has been a year this month. @Liberty_Keeper Is the handle he uses on Gettr and Truth Social, I would never forgive someone who mocked my Brothers who are no longer here on a open source media platform. Any American that sees that and remains in silence is undeserving to claim to be a Patriot, those who fight for America, are True Patriots. Yes we stand for American values online when we are in America, even many of our allies are on our side, but those who go to far away lands; some never to come home again, those are the men and women who deserve respect no matter what.

“Respect isn’t a granted birth right, it is earned through blood and sacrifice.” –Lt. Col. Grossman

The Future generations of this American Nation, are being brought up with this sense of entitlement, demanding equality while forcing segregation. But who is the true people behind the division? Who funds organizations like Black Lives Matter, or Antifa?

People who hate America, do not have the best interest of Americans in mind.

“The best way to manipulate a man is to make him think he is manipulating you.” – John Smith