Posts about GameStop
This is not a drill. This is not a test. This is big if true (its big and it is true). I can't believe these types of posts are requiring 250 words or more to weed out spam. I guess I get it, but it does make it challenging when you are just trying to post something SHORT AND SWEET and to the point.
Let's see if this is enough!
I saw this article on a gaming console sub and half the comments were lambasting GameStop and half the comments seemed like apes defending GameStop.
I read the article and was confused and read several more and saw that their sources cited were REDDIT AND TWITTER COMMENTS.
Well that's FUDDY as hell already.
I searched on this sub to try to find more information but there was nothing.
So I made this post and was downvoted pretty much to oblivion but one comment (which was deleted but idk why) linked to a Twitter user who had messaged GameStop directly about the issue. As you can see it was simply randomized test data created by GameStop, NOT real information and the "leak" was simply a glitch that exposed it to the users. The issue was resolved within a day and it makes sense they didn't make an announcement because it wasn't a big issue and there were no damages.
Now, there are many comments on Twitter and various subs talking about this and reposting very FUDDY articles. Many of the comments are saying VERY similar things that don't make sense. For instance, a Twitter user claims that they saw their friend's credit card information pop up. Like....how tf? The chances of someone you know popping up would be insanely slim, and if it was just their credit card how would you ever think to verify that it's your friends???? I guess MAYBE if it had their name or address attached but it all seems fishy.
At any rate, after looking through this a bit it seems like a concentrated effort to put out unverified and unsubstantiated claims to allege some kind of large data breach or that your data is unsafe with GameStop when this is obviously not the case. It's FUD through and through and highly sus they're popping up everywhere all of a sudden saying the same things. It seems like someone wants to sow fear into using the GameStop website.
This makes sense because GameStop is moving into becoming an e-commerce powerhouse. Shorters who want GameStop to fail would want customers to be afraid of giving their data and buying through GameStop.
I have never had issues with the website and have been impressed at the quality of service I've received when purchasing items through it after RC's turnaround.
Anyways, wanted to give everyone a heads up.
Buy, Hodl, DRS, NFA, etc. etc.
EDIT: I wanna add that it's sus as hell that the author's of those articles NEVER REACHED OUT TO GAMESTOP DIRECTLY FOR COMMENT. Even a regard like me knows that's basic journalism yeesh. They literally pumped out articles based on random social media comments.
There is a really easy way to refute anyone that calls GME a cult, all you need to do is explain to them what the BITE test is, and that superstonk doesnt meet any of the criteria of a cult.
Chances are, if someone calls superstonk a cult, they dont know what that word means or they have never really interacted with a cult....
https://i.redd.it/z23iiza73c2a1.jpgWhat is the BITE Model? Coined by Dr. Steven Hassan, whom himself was once stuck in a cult, the BITE Model is a tool for the Strategic Interactive Approach (SIA) of helping those who need intervention to be removed from a cult.
TW: there are some very real, and very terrible hallmarks of a cult. I will list them below, as defined by Dr. Hassan and outlined in work by Leon Festinger, Robert Jay Lifton, Margaret Singer, Edgar Schein, Louis Jolyon West
More info on the BITE Model available here: https://freedomofmind.com/cult-mind-control/bite-model/
Behavior Control
Regulate individual’s physical reality
Dictate where, how, and with whom the member lives and associates or isolates
When, how and with whom the member has sex
Control types of clothing and hairstyles
Regulate diet – food and drink, hunger and/or fasting
Manipulation and deprivation of sleep
Financial exploitation, manipulation or dependence
Restrict leisure, entertainment, vacation time
Major time spent with group indoctrination and rituals and/or self indoctrination including the Internet
Permission required for major decisions
Rewards and punishments used to modify behaviors, both positive and negative
Discourage individualism, encourage group-think
Impose rigid rules and regulations
Punish disobedience by beating, torture, burning, cutting, rape, or tattooing/branding
Threaten harm to family and friends
Force individual to rape or be raped
Encourage and engage in corporal punishment
Instill dependency and obedience
Kidnapping
Beating
Torture
Rape
Information Control
Deception:a. Deliberately withhold informationb. Distort information to make it more acceptablec. Systematically lie to the cult member
Minimize or discourage access to non-cult sources of information, including:a. Internet, TV, radio, books, articles, newspapers, magazines, mediab. Critical informationc. Former membersd. Keep members busy so they don’t have time to think and investigatee. Control through cell phone with texting, calls, internet tracking
Compartmentalize information into Outsider vs. Insider doctrinesa. Ensure that information is not freely accessibleb. Control information at different levels and missions within groupc. Allow only leadership to decide who needs to know what and when
Encourage spying on other membersa. Impose a buddy system to monitor and control memberb. Report deviant thoughts, feelings and actions to leadershipc. Ensure that individual behavior is monitored by group
Extensive use of cult-generated information and propaganda, including:a. Newsletters, magazines, journals, audiotapes, videotapes, YouTube, movies and other mediab. Misquoting statements or using them out of context from non-cult sources
Unethical use of confessiona. Information about sins used to disrupt and/or dissolve identity boundariesb. Withholding forgiveness or absolutionc. Manipulation of memory, possible false memories
Thought Control
Require members to internalize the group’s doctrine as trutha. Adopting the group’s ‘map of reality’ as realityb. Instill black and white thinkingc. Decide between good vs. evild. Organize people into us vs. them (insiders vs. outsiders)
Change person’s name and identity
Use of loaded language and clichés which constrict knowledge, stop critical thoughts and reduce complexities into platitudinous buzz words
Encourage only ‘good and proper’ thoughts
Hypnotic techniques are used to alter mental states, undermine critical thinking and even to age regress the member
Memories are manipulated and false memories are created
Teaching thought-stopping techniques which shut down reality testing by stopping negative thoughts and allowing only positive thoughts, including:a. Denial, rationalization, justification, wishful thinkingb. Chantingc. Meditatingd. Prayinge. Speaking in tonguesf. Singing or humming
Rejection of rational analysis, critical thinking, constructive criticism
Forbid critical questions about leader, doctrine, or policy allowed
Labeling alternative belief systems as illegitimate, evil, or not useful
Instill new “map of reality”
Emotional Control
Manipulate and narrow the range of feelings – some emotions and/or needs are deemed as evil, wrong or selfish
Teach emotion-stopping techniques to block feelings of homesickness, anger, doubt
Make the person feel that problems are always their own fault, never the leader’s or the group’s fault
Promote feelings of guilt or unworthiness, such as:a. Identity guiltb. You are not living up to your potentialc. Your family is deficientd. Your past is suspecte. Your affiliations are unwisef. Your thoughts, feelings, actions are irrelevant or selfishg. Social guiltf. Historical guilt
Instill fear, such as fear of:a. Thinking independentlyb. The outside worldc. Enemiesd. Losing one’s salvatione. Leaving or being shunned by the groupf. Other’s disapprovalf. Historical guilt
Extremes of emotional highs and lows – love bombing and praise one moment and then declaring you are horrible sinner
Ritualistic and sometimes public confession of sins
Phobia indoctrination: inculcating irrational fears about leaving the group or questioning the leader’s authoritya. No happiness or fulfillment possible outside of the groupb. Terrible consequences if you leave: hell, demon possession, incurable diseases, accidents, suicide, insanity, 10,000 reincarnations, etc.c. Shunning of those who leave; fear of being rejected by friends and familyd. Never a legitimate reason to leave; those who leave are weak, undisciplined, unspiritual, worldly, brainwashed by family or counselor, or seduced by money, sex, or rock and rolle. Threats of harm to ex-member and family
As you can see from the above list, Superstonk and GameStop investors do not meet any of the core 4 requirements of a cult. Not even close...
So don't get upset when someone says you are in a cult, just educate them on what a cult actually is.
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