Soulless Hank
Soulless Hank

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How to Brainwash Someone Into Believing Your Lies.
And a note on how to deal with gaslighters.
- A Dark Thread:
In the last thread, I went over how to push someone’s mind to near breakage.
This thread will be about how to use that advantage to make them BELIEVE that they actually did the crime they did not, in fact, commit.
Make sure to read the thread below first:
“The only way to strengthen one's defenses against an organized attack on the mind and will is to understand better what the enemy is trying to do and to outwit him.”
The aim of this series is to help you understand it better.
So:
When a person’s mind is near breakage, they are, for the lack of a better word, hypnotized.
“The conscious part of the personality no longer takes part in the automatic confessions. The brainwashee lives in a trance, repeating the record grooved into him and by somebody else.”
But “as soon as the victim returns to normal circumstances, the panicky and hypnotic spell evaporates, and he again awakens into reality.”
Fiction and reality merge. The flaws and gaps in their memories are now filled with fantasy and lies.
Understand:
This mental state is not only reserved to tortured victims and political prisoners.
They could happen to everyone.
The physical and psychological methods I’ve mentioned just accelerate the process.
For both Mindszenty and Schwable, false admissions were reread, repeated and hammered into their brains.
Assumptive questions are also repeated again and again.
Much like how a salesman might start assuming that their prospect is a client instead of getting a clear yes.
“First his own statements were read to him; then statements of other prisoners accused of complicity with him; then elaborations of those statements. [...]
He answered all questions willingly, repeated all sentences once, twice, or even three times when he was told to do so."
In normal situations, this won’t work.
But when a person could not trust their memory and rationality, identifying whether the statements are true or false, whether the sentences repeated are their words or their interrogator’s, is impossible.
With each repetition, “he is forced to reproduce in his memory, again and again, the fantasized offenses, fictitious details which ultimately convince him of his criminality.”
By repeating every single day, like an affirmation, the Illusory Truth Effect could be exploited:
“the tendency to believe false information to be correct after repeated exposure.” (Wiki)
if you want a more academic definition and proof:
Hassan, A., Barber, S.J. The effects of repetition frequency on the illusory truth effect. Cogn. Research 6, 38 (2021).
Added that “It is a well-known scientific fact that the passive memory often remembers facts learned under hypnosis better than those learned in a state of alert consciousness.”
This process goes even quicker. This is why many of these interrogations last only a few weeks…
“Eventually, all the little pieces fit, like a jigsaw puzzle, into a complete, well-organized whole”
Which is then written onto a document by the interrogators and given to the captive to sign.
Game fucking over. The captive will sign. Gladly.
Their only wish is to be left alone forever and sleep.
“He doesn't have to convince himself anymore through autohypnosis; he only speaks "his master's voice."
When it's time for the trial, he's "remorseful and willing to be sentenced." A puppet for the inquisitors to play with.
The captive bears false witness and even outs his ‘accomplices’.
Everything is televised and published on all channels of media to the public for political purposes.
Some final remarks:
Good gaslighters won’t gaslight you in one sitting.
They do so over days or months.
They make you believe that you are the one going insane.
They might change something and say “why did you change X?” (assumptive question) to fuck with you.
Sometimes to mask their mistake.
Their biggest weapon is your memory and self-doubt.
Asking someone their whereabouts on 18/9/2021 will almost 100% give you “I’ve got no idea.”
And they could frame that as a “tell” of you lying.
Or whatever the fuck they want to frame you as.
Be aware. But most importantly:
Trust your subconscious mind.
You'll get a feeling that you didn’t say something like that.
Take note of it and see if the same thing happens again with that person.
If it does, point it out. Get them to explain when, where, and in what context you said it.
This forces them to lie on the spot.
Pay attention and compare their behavior with their baseline.
If this happens again, and the discrepancy/ inconsistency is the same, AVOID.
But I have to say, most gaslighters aren't that smart.
For more on reading people:
That’s it for me.
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