"We were brainwashed by our elected officials just like the six were brainwashed," he said.
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"Well, if they had brainwashed me, I would say they hadn't brainwashed me because I would have been brainwashed," González said with a smile and a shrug as if to say he's given up on trying to convince people his thoughts are his own.
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"When you watch Sarah Huckabee Sanders right now, you really feel as if you're watching somebody who is being brainwashed, or has been brainwashed," Schwartz said.
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Widowmaker was kidnapped by Talon and brainwashed into an assassin.
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Many believe she had been totally brainwashed by Raniere's thinking.
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I knew my grandma had been brainwashed by the CIA.
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"They brainwashed him," Rawan said, referring to her older brothers.
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She was at E Corp gathering evidence but was brainwashed.
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Some of the women may be willing, if brainwashed, jihadists.
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That's just the nature of how brainwashed we all are.
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He realized that he had been brainwashed to hate Jews.
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Easy, the social media narrative would say: They were brainwashed.
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It was the brainwashed cult children who captured my heart.
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"I feel like I'm brainwashed into wanting likes," Sophia says.
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"I sometimes wonder if we've all been brainwashed," he said.
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These Muslims are being brainwashed and stripped of their identities.
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" One of the parents said her daughter had looked "brainwashed.
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"Most of these people were brainwashed, they were controlled," she said.
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"When I was in North Korea, I was brainwashed," she says.
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The rules of Hollywood engagement brainwashed into us were truly vile.
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Whatever. Killed a bunch of people as a brainwashed Hydra agent?
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My mind is so brainwashed in so many random ways. Situationally.
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"They brainwashed him," said Mr. Haq's youngest brother, Shamsullah Shamsuddin, 19.
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But my parents are deeply brainwashed by Chinese Communist Party propaganda.
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My sister said I'd been brainwashed, and I can see why.
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"I went to Annapolis and was really just brainwashed," she said.
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But you can also feel coerced into complicity, intimidated or brainwashed.
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Cannan: There are certainly times when you hear Shin on the tape where he sounds like he's a bit brainwashed, he sounds like he's becoming brainwashed, but also he was a very clever, calculating guy himself.
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He explained to me that these girls had been so indoctrinated, so brainwashed after three years of captivity at the hands of ISIS —— Falah: They don't believe what is going on on the ground, because they brainwashed.
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There, they investigate rumors that tourists are being brainwashed while on vacation.
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Then I realized I had to do something; my people are brainwashed.
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Then, I realized I had been brainwashed into that slut-shaming assumption.
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Zunduri said, in addition to being physically abused, she was also brainwashed.
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"According to my family, aliens took me and brainwashed me," she said.
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" When asked if the children were brainwashed, he said he'd be "speculating.
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I think however White Rose brainwashed Angela, she exploited her childhood trauma.
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Even a decade after his departure, Mr Sun continued to feel brainwashed.
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"They're getting brainwashed according to the news that they watch," Cain said.
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"We used to think that because of pluralist media, checks and balances, and globalization that people could not be brainwashed," he said, "but what we see in Russia and also Hungary is that people can be brainwashed." video video
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The ex-wife allegedly told police she believes Steven brainwashed and manipulated Katie.
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"The whole thing is so stupid, these kids have gotten themselves so brainwashed."
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We've been brainwashed to think that being feminine means having long, straight hair.
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However, Mr Roy rejects the notion that these young people are simply brainwashed.
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He later wrote that he had been brainwashed into joining a religious cult.
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" Mr. Feeny (William Daniels) also spells it out to a brainwashed Shawn: "Mr.
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Prosecutors said Kaplan is a self-proclaimed prophet who "brainwashed" the Stoltzfus family.
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"To say that Ms. Neelley was brainwashed is a vast understatement," he said.
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"I'm not being brainwashed or anything like that," Savage said in the video.
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I was brainwashed, but now I know something is wrong with that regime.
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West then said people were being brainwashed by social-media apps like Instagram.
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Her husband maintained his now-traditional demeanor of a partially brainwashed cult member.
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"You've been brainwashed," explains Florence's son Willing, a precocious self-taught economic savant.
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There are a lot of brainwashed people, and the city is sick now.
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"Once you're in, you're brainwashed, and it's hard to get out," he said.
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In Mexico, Raniere insisted to me that claiming he brainwashed anyone was ridiculous.
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I was in trouble and brainwashed into believing that I was the problem.
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It is done slowly, so the victim doesn't realize how much they've been brainwashed.
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It was a large part of sustaining Scott's brainwashed state for nearly five years.
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He's brainwashed them really bad, and it kind of reminds me of Charles Manson.
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We're told he feels Drea's brainwashed all 3 of their kids into hating him.
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"Come look at all the brainwashed idiots in r/Documentaries," said the post's title.
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The ad begins with a scene from the film "Sereny" featuring schoolchildren being brainwashed.
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The girl's father previously said he believed his daughter had been "brainwashed" by Cummins.
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"I believe some Islamist group recruited my boy" and brainwashed him, Mr. Kabir said.
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Also being brainwashed to feel like they are taking a side, red or blue.
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Being brainwashed and under that pressure would seem like there was no way out.
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I do not worry that the Marxist underpinnings of the PKK have brainwashed her.
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His son Dhani helped complete his last album, "Brainwashed," which was released in 2002.
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But rather than being protected, Boyce was "humiliated" and "brainwashed," she said in court.
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Supporters believe women don't want gender equality and have been brainwashed by feminist propaganda.
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Moses has allied himself with Allen and claims his mother brainwashed and abused him.
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"I don't think Lauren even wanted to have that little moment and I don't think Heidi knew what she was even getting to, and then I think Audrina just threw gasoline on the fire when she was like "you're brainwashed, you're brainwashed!
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"These children have seen their families killed, or were kidnapped, beaten and brainwashed," he said.
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Prosecutors called Kaplan a self-proclaimed prophet and argued that he "brainwashed" the Stoltzfus family.
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What poor June doesn't realize is, Serena isn't a brainwashed bystander in this nightmare situation.
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Well, the bad news is you've been living a hopeless, brainwashed lie your entire life.
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We've seen soldiers being brainwashed, cheaters getting blackmailed by hackers, and Instagram likes running amok.
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And maybe in the beginning when I met him, maybe I was a little brainwashed.
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He would have been brainwashed by them and one day forced to join their ranks.
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He lamented the views of his magazine's readers, saying they were 'brainwashed by communist propaganda.
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It told them to be careful not to be "brainwashed" into sympathizing with Uyghur families.
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Instead he is taken in by ISIS and brainwashed into becoming another child suicide bomber.
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His brother and friends have said he was "brainwashed" by ultra-conservatives imams in Berlin.
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Some of these girls must be so brainwashed—I didn't want to show them misery.
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A generation of young Syrians and Iraqis living under the caliphate's rule has been brainwashed.
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"I had been brainwashed to believe that only white males could be choreographers," she said.
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As you know ... Joycelyn lives with R. Kelly, but her family believes she's been brainwashed.
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It's almost as if we've been brainwashed into thinking that we can't have that connection.
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She heard from students brainwashed into calling their parents infidels, teenage girls sold into marriage.
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I wanted to prove to my parents that I was not brainwashed or mind-controlled.
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I met 10 of them, who each described being brainwashed into a life of celibacy.
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"Our kids are being brainwashed," the Republican senator told conservative radio host Eric Metaxas in July.
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"We don&apost know who has brainwashed him," Saipova said in Uzbek to the radio station.
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Her young nephew, who was captured and brainwashed by IS, used to call and threaten her.
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But our threat comes from an invasive, brainwashed "culture," not from our own kith and kin.
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Don't call it brainwashed, the researcher said in response, and the other wanted to know why.
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And so it is the most educated can also mean that it is the most brainwashed.
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That was after Tony learned that Bucky Barnes (Cap's best bud) killed his parents while brainwashed.
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The parents have been leading the charge against R. Kelly and believe he's brainwashed their daughters.
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Savage, however, has denied being brainwashed, and both women appeared at his bond hearing last month.
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If that sounds reasonable to you, it is because you have been brainwashed to believe it.
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I hated religion—I've seen how people get brainwashed—and this was embodied in black metal.
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"They might have already been half-brainwashed by the Chinese government in the mainland," she said.
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"She has been brainwashed into thinking that there is climate change and there isn't," he said.
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The adults who brainwashed this autist [sic] child should be brought up on child abuse charges.
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It's not like they've been totally brainwashed, their prior convictions replaced with the whims of their leader.
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He says the two women currently living at his house are his girlfriends — and are not brainwashed.
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And I didn't know what my children were thinking, but I know they were brainwashed at school.
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Our culture has brainwashed us into thinking that we have to be as busy as humanly possible.
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Is everyone just so brainwashed that mildly mocking a company party is a significant act of resistance?
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One woman alleged her daughter is currently being "brainwashed" and is a part of the singer's "cult."
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The men & brainwashed women in our business made it so we couldn't be friends, I regret that.
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It's also disturbing because most of the cult members are presumably regular folks who have been brainwashed.
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He tells us they've been brainwashed by the media they consume, which he suggests is anti-Trump.
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His brother and friends in Germany have said he was "brainwashed" by ultra-conservative imams in Berlin.
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But some people are just so severely brainwashed that they've lost the ability to produce original thought.
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Former Nxivm members testified they were brainwashed into being branded and assigned to have sex with him.
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After Vixen returned to normal, she saved the rest of those who were brainwashed by the cult.
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Oxenberg first opened up to PEOPLE last year about how she believed India had been "brainwashed" by Nxivm.
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And I think one of the downsides of too much education is that you get the most brainwashed.
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Better yet, treat yo self to the ad-free version or be content to be brainwashed by branding.
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Oxenberg first opened up to PEOPLE last year about how she believed India had been "brainwashed" by Nxivm.
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Another woman speaks out on behalf of her daughter, who she believes has been "brainwashed" by the singer.
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It then guides the brainwashed roach into a den, where it lays a single egg on the victim.
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"We, the people, are being systematically brainwashed into giving up … all of our precious freedoms," wrote one editor.
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Did Singaporeans strike them as a people easily brainwashed into believing that the PAP and Singapore are "synonymous"?
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Oxenberg first opened up to PEOPLE in 2017 about how she believed India had been "brainwashed" by Nxivm.
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If you think that the Rajneeshees were like these evil brainwashed cult members, that's a valid takeaway, too.
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Oxenberg first opened up to PEOPLE in 2017 about how she believed India had been "brainwashed" by Nxivm.
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Kaplan allegedly brainwashed the Stoltzfus parents into believing he was a prophet and had sex with their daughters.
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"It was as if she was brainwashed," J. told the publication of her last meeting with her daughter.
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Eventually, the rest of my team, sans our brainwashed ambassador, joins me in an increasingly crowded alien room.
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Maybe it's an effective slogan that has brainwashed us into believing that it really is what we crave.
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Becoming an intelligence officer, he debriefed American pilots who had been shot down over Korea, captured and brainwashed.
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"A lot of [Black women] are brainwashed to not appreciate their natural beauty," Jean-Louis told Bored Panda.
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Khan's lawyer said at the time of the plea that his client had been brainwashed by online propaganda.
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Laugh all you want, but I had no idea that the Winter Soldier was brainwashed Bucky (Sebastian Stan).
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I had been brainwashed into believing that my existence was limited to the boundaries of another person's approval.
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He felt that people were being brainwashed to hate each other because of the color of their skin.
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The masked children all live there, or maybe they are kept there, or maybe they are brainwashed there.
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She said Mr. Osborne then dived into the right-wing media sphere and "seemed brainwashed" by that world.
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" Still, she says she was so brainwashed by Communist propaganda that she "cried my eyes out when Mao died.
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" The man, who said the boy was "brainwashed" went on to ask "Can you vote over there [in Mexico]?
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No one's brainwashed into agreeing with 100 percent of what anybody says, let alone a politician or a candidate.
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Oxenberg, 56, first opened up to PEOPLE last year about how she believed India had been "brainwashed" by Nxivm.
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For years, we have been brainwashed to assume that advertising and SaaS are the only possible billing/monetization models.
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It's a bad civilization of brainwashed, enslaved bugs, but it's more of a society than you'd expect to find.
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"My mind was just so, so like maybe brainwashed or something I said okay how much money," Mary recalled.
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The whole thing starts to soak and bake in; and you become brainwashed by this, like, biased media coverage.
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No wait, Bernie is likely your candidate given the brainwashed students coming out of out liberal ivy league institutions.
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Oxenberg, 56, first opened up to PEOPLE last year about how she believed India had been "brainwashed" by NXIVM.
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" She also accuses Montag of being "brainwashed" and, for the pièce de résistance, calls her "a sad, pathetic person.
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They have enough problems as it is, you know… They shouldn't be brainwashed into paying a lot for clothes.
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Liam Hemsworth has been brainwashed by one Miley Cyrus, former Disney Channel star, forever rockstar, and his new wife.
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Oxenberg, 56, first opened up to PEOPLE last year about how she believed India had been "brainwashed" by Nxivm.
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You were brainwashed using the catchy, creepy tune, and for that reason, you don't want to hear it again.
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"It is quite literally a process akin to reclaiming someone who has been brainwashed by a cult," he said.
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I asked Dylan if there was any chance that this was a false memory, that she had been brainwashed.
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But they are also worried about their children; they think the younger generation is getting brainwashed by overseas governments.
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Yes, Josie, Val and Mel fight, but in their defense, they were literally being brainwashed by a bad system.
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For a short time, she was brainwashed by a Nazi named Killer Shark and went by Queen Killer Shark.
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The shooting was part of Angel's plan to rescue his best friend, whom the cult had stolen and brainwashed.
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Kaity K has been "brainwashed": I honestly am not sure I could go a whole day without my phone.
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Like the MacBook but don't want to sell your soul to Apple like the rest of us brainwashed tech-heads?
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He was an American prisoner of war, brainwashed by the communists into be an unwitting assassin against his own country.
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"If you turn on the football game, you will be brainwashed into thinking you need a new car," Reed said.
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Does dismissing their experience as that of brainwashed cult members diminish their own agency to make free choices about faith?
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As you know ... the family of one of Kelly's alleged brainwashed sex slaves has gone public in seeking her return.
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" In the song, Kelly says: "Said I'm abusing these women, what the fuck, that's some absurd shit / They're brainwashed, really?
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A majority of Boko Haram suicide-bombers have been female, many of them girls coerced or brainwashed into their missions.
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In either scenario — whether ShyShy has been murdered or brainwashed — the evidence just isn't there, even if the theories are.
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However, Kelly's critics have long maintained ... this sort of video only shows how the embattled singer has brainwashed his victims.
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Ms Hearst's trial lawyers sought to present her as a brainwashed innocent, but Mr Toobin does not accept that argument.
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"The rules of Hollywood engagement brainwashed into us were truly vile," McGowan wrote on an Instagram post addressed to Doherty.
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"Every day, millions of schoolchildren are brainwashed into believing that they cannot fly," she continues, before being interrupted by Aniston.
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"It is not unfair to say that my fellow classmates and I were brainwashed," she wrote in another online essay.
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If you find yourself getting brainwashed with what everyone else believes, be careful; the status quo never leads to greatness.
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We've been hearing straight stories forever, and so we're sort of brainwashed to want to live out those stories ourselves.
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"We've effectively brainwashed the core of our audience to distrust anything that they disagree with," one conservative radio host said.
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The boys, including one of my nephews, 11-year-old Malik, were forced to join the terrorist group and brainwashed.
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"My son was brainwashed because he was watching this propaganda video," Mr. Warsame's mother, Deqa Hussen, said to Retro Report.
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When he talks with friends back home about his discoveries, they mock him for being "brainwashed by America," he said.
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In one of his Virginia trials, Malvo used an insanity defense, alleging that Muhammad had brainwashed him into committing murder.
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But, brainwashed by his father's exhortation that the world belongs to "killers," Trump clearly doesn't recognize the danger before him.
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According to the local news media, a spokeswoman for the agency said transgender comedians had "brainwashed" some boys to be effeminate.
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For daring to raise questions about female sexual agency, Ms Deneuve and others have essentially been told that they've been brainwashed.
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As we've reported ... Joycelyn's family insists Kelly has Joycelyn brainwashed, and say she's now a part of his alleged sex cult.
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And, he was surrounded by brainwashed idiots holding huge Egyptian Ankh symbols, who cheered louder the more vile the rhetoric got.
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Their parents have alleged that their daughters have been brainwashed, which led them to inappropriate relationships and living arrangements with Kelly.
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Colin Kaepernick believes Mike Vick has been "brainwashed" -- and his advice to cut his afro is the result of Stockholm Syndrome.
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He laments the liberal views of most of the people who pick up his magazine, saying they're 'brainwashed by communist propaganda.
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In 2008, when I got asylum in South Korea, I realized I was brainwashed again while hiding 10 years in China.
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In an interview from jail with CNN affiliate KCRA , Allen insisted that his children were brainwashed into thinking they were abused.
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Now, you fear that when your child goes, they could get involved with the wrong crowd and be brainwashed or sacrificed.
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I've been brainwashed—at least, I watched all the odd-hued, flickering videos in the "brainwashing" section of Unicole's personal website.
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He said a bizarre theory that somehow my client had been brainwashed by a man who spent ten days around her.
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" Another parent received a profane email, assailing her for embracing "anti-white racism," adding: "I feel sorry for your brainwashed child.
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The "Korean Dream" has brainwashed students on what a successful life is: an excellent CSAT score and a prestigious college degree.
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There were some limited exercises at schools run by Islamic State by many parents pulled them out worried they got brainwashed.
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Sources close to the singer's now ex-GF tell TMZ ... she now feels she was brainwashed, manipulated and mistreated by Kelly.
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Probably everyone in this room has someone in their family who has been, and I believe this, brainwashed by Fox News.
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Fearing the legal consequences, or brainwashed into believing cheap refills would clog their printers, most users simply paid the manufacturer's agreed price.
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"What I am most worried about are those who finished the Sharia [school] and the training, they are fully brainwashed," says Shrem.
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Children Are Being Brainwashed By Cartoons Have you ever watched those compilations of secret sexual messages in animated Disney movies and cartoons?
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And then you remember that it's playing every morning in Pyongyang, where poor people are being brainwashed every second of every day.
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Jonathan Allen told KCRA-TV from Solano County Jail on Tuesday that the children have been brainwashed into thinking they were abused.
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Her lawyer, Joseph P. Cataldo, told PEOPLE, Carter had been brainwashed by Roy into going along with his plan to kill himself.
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It was only after a tightly planned intervention, staged by her mother and two cult deprogrammers, that Benscoter realized she'd been brainwashed.
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" He writes that "they've been brainwashed by society into thinking that college is a good thing for young, intelligent, ambitious young people.
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Years and years of what the Fed has done I think have brainwashed them to think they can take care of everything.
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Saipov's sister believes he may have been brainwashed, and she appealed to Trump on Friday to ensure he gets a fair trial.
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But the crucial people — those who may or may not have brainwashed her — knew her for only three months before they died.
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But Delfino Lopez Solis, Lopez's father, reportedly claimed his family had been "brainwashed" by Morrow and said his son's condition only worsened.
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Aid workers believe that some captured women and girls have been either brainwashed or otherwise enticed into becoming fighters or suicide bombers.
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Ms. Jeong said she had been brainwashed and spent the next two years recruiting fellow young people just as she had been.
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When I confronted him, he tried to pick an argument and convince me that I had been brainwashed by the mainstream media.
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The abuse -- and their denial -- left her feeling brainwashed, caused a rift with her family and led to crippling anxiety, she said.
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The result is a little eye-rolly: The worker seems brainwashed into a state of hyperproductivity in service of the corporate mission.
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He was a frontrunner for the Republican nomination until an unfortunate comment about being "brainwashed" over the Vietnam War killed his chances.
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People are brainwashed to think it was the evil spirit inside people (being beaten out) so they don't need to feel sorry.
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" It wasn't that these authors had been brainwashed by their teachers, he added; it was that they had "no brain to wash.
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Whether brainwashed P.O.W.s were ideological converts or merely obedient bodies, disciplined by physical punishment, remained a matter of dispute among contemporary observers.
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Their testimony does not sound like that of the brainwashed or manipulated, but recalls the rise and fall of Rajneeshpuram with startling lucidity.
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"How is this crazy story of me being brainwashed and coached more believable than me being sexually assaulted by my father?" she demanded.
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I mean, I've been in New York for 17 years now, so I think I've probably been brainwashed into New Yorkerishness by now.
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She said she has been brainwashed and "deeply regrets" joining the terrorist group, and wants to return home to her family in Alabama.
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Activists say trafficking victims often withhold information as they are brainwashed to believe their rescuers would harm them or take away their money.
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"We see that children who grew up with Islamic State were brainwashed in the schools and the kindergartens of the IS," he said.
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They're brainwashed and redistributed to selected new families within Gilead, while their mothers, if proven fertile, are forced into sexual slavery as handmaids.
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Some slightly less brainwashed observers did grudgingly admit the Trump photo op with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto made Trump look more presidential.
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The two are accused of operating a cult and pyramid scheme in which members (almost all women) are brainwashed, branded, and sexually assaulted.
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Actually, when I first learned about him, I was really surprised by his success in America because most Americans are brainwashed against socialism.
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Fire Nation tyranny is depicted from the perspective of victims, but also from the perspective of Fire Nation children being brainwashed in school.
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"After two years, it's like he's brainwashed me," she told Fallon, when asked if she herself was a fan of the NFL team.
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It has also ignored complaints from parents that their teenage children were disappearing, or had been brainwashed, at the hands of jihadist cults.
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Jacci Gresham: Brown skin's a bit of study, because, I'm telling you, we have been brainwashed with this flash on a white paper.
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"I think this is fundamentally the reason why so many smart people get brainwashed into being terrible entrepreneurs and problem solvers," Chen adds.
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"He was a very good child until he met some people who pretty much brainwashed him in his early 20s," his mother said.
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"I think anyone that believes, anyone listening to this show that believes homosexuality is just a normal lifestyle has been brainwashed," Hannity concluded.
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But fighters told the girls to stop listening when people said that the group brainwashed, poisoned or harmed its captives, Mr. Mohammed said.
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It was mostly interested in the titillating idea of fanciful young girls who had been brainwashed by a demon into doing absolutely anything.
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Even though the Pahvans essentially brainwashed him, Saru's discomfort with conflict — and by extension, with Burnham — was always there, buried by his professionalism.
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That did not sit well with many black leaders and voters, who Mr. Sanders seemed to be implying had been snookered or brainwashed.
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The abuse -- and their denial -- left her feeling brainwashed, caused a split in her family relationship and led to crippling anxiety, she said.
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Since a preference for "Red China" over America seemed inconceivable to many contemporaries, the conclusion was that the men must have been brainwashed.
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Some combat experts believe that the female suicide bombers are brainwashed; others believe that they are unaware and that the devices are remotely detonated.
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He accused the protesters of ignoring controversial figures such as Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and others and being brainwashed by the mainstream media.
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And it's hard to even talk about it with people because they have been so brainwashed by neoliberalism – I talk about them as memes.
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Ms Saariaho frets that people today are overwhelmed and brainwashed, and hopes that Weil's ideals of empathy and intellectual freedom will inspire contemporary audiences.
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Anton's students use the same language of having been "brainwashed" that Nassar's victims, most of whom were teens and preteens, used in his trial.
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The parents of the two women, Azriel Clary and Joycelyn Savage say their daughters, 21 and 23 respectively, have been brainwashed by Kelly, 52.
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Hearst said she had been abused, threatened and brainwashed, but at the time there was no legal precedent for acquittal due to such manipulation.
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Tim Savage -- the father of alleged brainwashed sex slave Joycelyn Savage -- tells TMZ ... 3 families are directly involved with helping Lifetime produce the documentary.
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" She said she has since realized "I had been brainwashed into believing that my existence was limited to the boundaries of another person's approval.
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My sister first makes the case that I am no longer myself — that somehow I've been brainwashed into my activism and rejecting compulsory hijab.
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As the group endure further hardships, some soldiers reveal themselves to be psychopaths, embracing their brutality, and others children who have simply been brainwashed.
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"In today's America, we've been brainwashed into thinking we don't owe each other any help or support," she fumes in SHELL GAME (Morrow, $27.99).
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The Australian news media has given the episodes intensive, often negative coverage, portraying the students as brainwashed or under the thumb of government agents.
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Mr. Xie said he had been "brainwashed" into antigovernment beliefs at training sessions organized in Hong Kong and South Korea by human rights groups.
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When people are being brainwashed, they think they're making their own decisions, they think they're doing God's work, they think they're saving the world.
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Beah's memoir offers a rare chance to see war from the eyes of a child soldier, brainwashed and kept obedient with drugs and guns.
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"I'm brainwashed," she writes, acknowledging that her success has, to some degree, alienated her from the people she identifies with and cares about most.
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"I'm brainwashed," she writes, acknowledging that her success has, to some degree, alienated her from the people she identifies with and cares about most.
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Radicalization comes in many forms, and it can be thrust upon any parent whose child has been brainwashed by a cult or extreme ideology.
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He also claims R. Kelly's handlers were at the courthouse to keep Azriel Clary's parents away from her and believes Azriel has been brainwashed.
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Savage's parents have been attempting to make contact with their daughter, as they believe she is brainwashed into willingly staying in his inner sex circle.
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My Nan's stolen generation, for example, she was taken from her family and brainwashed to be a Catholic - all that sort of stuff, you know.
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"I was brainwashed to believe this was a valid medical procedure," one survivor says in the first trailer for the documentary, exclusively debuted by PEOPLE.
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For nine months individuals were drawn into the group's web of intrigue, discovering that a young woman from Ohio had been taken in and brainwashed.
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Kanye West says Jesus has freed him from the clutches of the Democratic Party, which he claims has brainwashed the black community into aborting children.
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China sends teenagers to study in America without worrying if they will be brainwashed, and then they are treated as spies, the minister tut-tutted.
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"I had been brainwashed into believing that my existence was limited to the boundaries of another person's approval," she wrote in the Times op-ed.
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It allows for us to do exactly what we accuse others of: silence Muslim women under the guise of being brainwashed, weak, or lacking agency.
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In that film, the washed-up male model gets roped into a Manchurian Candidate-esque brainwashed-assassin conspiracy by a shadowy cabal of fashion elite.
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"Now that I no longer live in fear of her rejection, I am free to share how she cultivated and brainwashed me," Moses reportedly says.
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Democrats have brainwashed Americans into believing the Earth is burning up, and the villain is carbon dioxide, the gas that makes all living things grow.
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"He was a nice person while he was here but later, like many other youngsters, he was brainwashed," said Behar Latifi after meeting Muhaxheri's father.
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One film directed by a woman, but shown outside the main competition, was "Charlie Says" the story of the women Charles Manson brainwashed into murder.
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Group sex was frequent because Manson wanted it that way, and he had brainwashed the girls staying with him into doing what they were told.
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Rescuing Murad's brainwashed nephew is unlikely, but there are many within her wide family circle and across the community that could be freed, she insists.
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" In 2017, Ms. Savage recorded a video published on the celebrity news website TMZ in which she said she was fine and "not being brainwashed.
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"These people are brainwashed because they don't have the knowledge," said Hossam Fahrouk, an Egyptian Muslim who immigrated to western Sydney in the past week.
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While researching my new book, The Wasp That Brainwashed the Caterpillar (out October 25), I got familiar with a wild assortment of evolution-approved survival tactics.
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The obvious answer would be Yon Rogg (Jude Law), the leader of the now-decimated Kree Starforce and the one who brainwashed Carol for six years.
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One of them, Ted Sampley, who died in 2009, was convinced McCain was a "Manchurian candidate" who had been brainwashed by the KGB during his captivity.
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This is an enemy who is fighting an ideological war -- there are boys here of 10, 12 and 15 years of age who have been brainwashed.
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Ye said on Friday ... the political party has brainwashed his people to do unholy things, like Plan B birth control and encouraging the abortion of babies.
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Betrayed the Starks despite them treating him well, burned Winterfell, killed two innocent boys, got tortured and brainwashed, didn't help Sansa until the literal last second.
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I didn't want him to be unattractive, and after six months of filming I started to find him hot with the wig — I am so brainwashed!
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As plus-size fashion improved, I tried more trends and designs that I had been brainwashed to avoid, and experienced some of my first outfit compliments.
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Instead, with a degree of prejudice similar to those she is denouncing, she has described locals who consider mainlanders a blight on the territory as "brainwashed".
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"Our kids are being brainwashed," the Oklahoma Republican told conservative radio host Eric Metaxas on a recent appearance reported by the liberal blog Right Wing Watch.
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Dynasty star Catherine Oxenberg is desperately fighting to save her 26-year-old daughter, India, from a controversial group she alleges has "brainwashed" her oldest daughter.
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Imagine his surprise when he finally makes his move and discovers Amanda, a bruised and brainwashed 16-year-old from Virginia chained up in the bathroom.
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According to the new documents, the woman said Mr. Lanza felt "pity for children" and thought they were "brainwashed" by "controlling" adults like teachers and parents.
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" "I had to meet this gentleman," she says, "and now I understand he was just as abused and brainwashed as the people he wanted to save.
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"The whole family was very upset with Shirdon's actions and believes that he was brainwashed by someone to be acting in this manner," the ITO states.
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Yet every time I visit the dapper Mr. Brown, I leave in a lighter, less-polluted mood — brainwashed in the most positive sense of the term.
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Mr. Romney later said that he had supported the war only because he had been "brainwashed" by his American diplomatic and military guides during the visit.
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After he gets brainwashed, the team has to go into his mind, where they find an anthropomorphic version of the Waverider's AI system, Gideon (Amy Pemberton).
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BuzzFeed News also reported in 2017 that parents said Kelly was holding their daughters hostage in an abusive "cult," and that the women were brainwashed into staying.
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Perhaps the most famous of R. Kelly's alleged brainwashed sex slaves sure didn't look like a hostage to her situation late last month -- quite the opposite, actually.
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In his book, Ross cites an intervention with an Amway seller who began crying upon realizing he'd been brainwashed into believing the promises made by his upline.
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Its first season told the story of an American soldier who has been converted to Islam and brainwashed into conducting a terrorist attack against his own people.
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But instead of realizing how sinister these rites appear to the average outsider, the community is totally brainwashed to believe their murderous ways are the new norm.
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His aunt has told him he's not gay but "brainwashed" and said he'll never see his siblings get married or play with their children unless he changes.
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Duriqi cites himself as an example: He says he was brainwashed and underwent an extremist phase in which he called for imposing Shariah law and excusing violence.
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Her relationship with the Joker — she calls him her Puddin', and is basically his brainwashed plaything — is a sour sexual nightmare played as a smirky, naughty joke.
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Joycelyn Savage, one of R. Kelly's alleged brainwashed sex slaves, is looking a lot more free ... while getting some R&R ... way cross country from R. Kelly.
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In 2003 Ms. Snyder left an "intensive" Nxivm course in a hotel in Anchorage and wrote a note saying she had been "brainwashed," The Times Union reported.
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"She just went from being an amazing, wonderful friend to being someone who was brainwashed, and I didn't know how to get her back," Mr. Martorana said.
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"Now that I no longer live in fear of her rejection, I am free to share how she cultivated and brainwashed me," Moses is quoted as saying.
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Under what theory would a smattering of several hundred unvetted party loyalists have a better radar for brainwashed or criminal candidates than upwards of a hundred million voters?
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You'll recall ... Kanye mentioned Plan B and abortion in a rant he went on about the Democratic party, which he thinks has brainwashed African-Americans into killing babies.
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And yeah, possibly we've all been brainwashed by a patriarchal, sexist society and a complicit beauty industry to internalize the message that dewy, clear skin equals good skin.
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To her dismay, the prince she tracks down is no longer a boy, but a lowly janitor who has become a menial part of a brainwashed corporate workforce.
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She's a fiercely passionate force, and she's reclaiming her self-worth while paving a revolutionary road for a western world engrossed in physical insecurities and brainwashed beauty standards.
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I think you really need to sort through your priorities and possibly question whether you have been completely, or just partially brainwashed by the concept of Team First.
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The workers at the mill are also under the control of the evil Dr. Orwell, whose villainous powers of hypnosis have turned them all into brainwashed factory drones.
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"This Mullah Qudri has brainwashed Ahmad," the relative said, adding that Mullah Qudri was even spending nights with Ahmad at the house where he was staying in Quetta.
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Two short years after his appointment Holder argued publicly the country must be "brainwashed" against firearms, making him a perfect fit for Hillary Clinton's extreme gun control agenda.
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Exposing myself to her version of a bikini body brainwashed me into believing I needed to look like the girls on her page to validate my healthy lifestyle.
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However, it defies all logic and rules out all objectivity to discard this side of the argument/narrative when you are dealing with a brainwashed, deranged Muslim radical.
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Pleasantly and unexpectedly brainwashed, you walk back out to St. Marks Place and gaze at the T-shirts and hats and hookah pipes and think about signing them.
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The scene is the one in which the newly conscripted Handmaids are being brainwashed in a sort of Red Guard re-education facility known as the Red Center.
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He has said that he wants to reform the madrasa system in which countless young Pakistani boys have been brainwashed in Quranic schools to fight for extremist groups.
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Many experts on Boko Haram say the women and girls who are deployed have been brainwashed or are simply unaware that the devices they are carrying can kill them.
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Cutting off Lizzie's hand made it so that Anton would kick Lizzie — who was brainwashed by Anton into believing the perfection was a noble task — out of the school.
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Matt Simon is a science writer at Wired magazine, where he specializes in zoology, particularly of the bizarre variety, and the author of The Wasp That Brainwashed the Caterpillar.
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" A little later in the song, he addresses the sex cult accusations specifically: "Said I'm abusing these women, what the fuck that's some absurd shit (what?) / They're brainwashed, really?
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The actress, who played Amanda Carrington on Dynasty in the mid-'80s, first opened up to PEOPLE last year about how she believed India had been "brainwashed" by Nxivm.
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It wouldn't be a Supernatural finale without Castiel being brainwashed or otherwise not in his right mind: How did you approach this version of Cas versus the other iterations?
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Well, no and no -- unless you've been brainwashed by arrogant Western ideas about feminism while ignoring the strength women around the world have always shown, regardless of their circumstances.
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As much as I need money now, I should just claim that I was kidnapped by aliens or brainwashed by the CIA—the money I could make off that.
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I later learn that, before ascending to the heavens, he was a child soldier who was brainwashed by a nefarious terrorist, which explains why he is so moody now.
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According to the aliens, the entire U.N had been brainwashed earlier in the game, following the orders of the quickly approaching parasitic race to sow chaos among the world.
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During the arrest and trial, both the prosecution and the tabloids painted Manson as a remorseless master manipulator leading a family of brainwashed devil-worshippers through carefully coordinated attacks.
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Rich had made a long, fervid speech in favor of Trump, and when Min had simply said she was going to vote for Clinton he had called her brainwashed.
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The cultural narrative around the Tate-LaBianca murders is that they happened out of nowhere — that Manson's followers simply erupted into unthinkable violence on command, after being thoroughly brainwashed.
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Everyone from the singer Meatloaf (who called her "brainwashed") to the president of the United States (who said she has anger problems) has taken a shot at the teenager.
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The center "brainwashed" youth and distributed flyers denouncing Sufism, according to H. M. Ameer, a community spokesman who said his house was destroyed during anti-Sufi unrest in 2004.
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According to recently uncovered information was kidnapped, likely by members of the Champions eSports League and taken to an unknown location, where he was brainwashed and forced into military service.
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While members of a cult don't have to be completely brainwashed to follow their leader, they do have to value and prioritize them more than other people in their lives.
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According to former members, Schacknow arranged marriages between many of his followers, and systematically brainwashed members into believing they had to sever their relationships with those outside the insular group.
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But according to a new Russian TV report, the dumb spinning toys have a secret purpose—one far more nefarious than their insane markup: to turn people into brainwashed zombies.
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Savage responded to this claim in a video released in 2017, in which she denied she's being held and that she had been brainwashed by the Grammy-award winning singer.
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She responded to this claim in a video released in 2017, in which she denied she's being held and that she had been brainwashed by the Grammy-award winning singer.
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However, over time, the group's numbers waned, the men were forced to leave and the dwindling group of women were so dominated and brainwashed they believed he was all-powerful.
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Even if a sex worker insists that she works of her own free will, she shouldn't be taken seriously, because she must be either lying or brainwashed or on crack.
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Maybe I'm brainwashed, but it's funny to hear people bemoan the death of innovation at companies and in the same breath criticize companies for spending heavily on research and development.
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But Bill and I — like most people around us and too many Barnards then and now — had been brainwashed in the same well-meaning society that still fails disabled people.
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This approach will likely infuriate some audiences, especially after years of media coverage that portrayed such women as uniquely evil, bloodthirsty extremists, or as brainwashed fetishists hot for jihadi men.
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"People have been so brainwashed that Russia is to blame for everything that nobody remembers WADA's responsibility, nor that of the IOC," R-Sport news agency quoted Mutko as saying.
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He was friends with Bucky Barnes as a kid, and so he knows that Bucky — despite his multi-decade interregnum as a brainwashed Soviet soldier — couldn't have detonated that bomb.
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It makes me realize just how convenient this idea that the white working class is a racist brainwashed Trump-supporting mass is both for the media and for the Democratic party.
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He blasted into the public sphere at the tender age of 20 with his first book, "Brainwashed: How Universities Indoctrinate America's Youth", that made him a hero to many young conservatives.
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But the others on stage -- director Allen and some who appear in the film, Hower, Chris Johnston, Julian Goldstein, Radhia Gleis and Alessandra Burenin -- all say they were brainwashed and manipulated.
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To this day, people in my community tell me that I've sold my soul to the West, that I've forgotten Islam, that I've been brainwashed and don't know who I am.
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I've unfriended and blocked no fewer than five people who've insisted that this announcement isn't important and that those of us who are excited about it are shallow and/or brainwashed.
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If being slowly brainwashed by Greek yogurt results in the empowerment of hundreds of disenfranchised refugees, there are plenty of Americans who would argue that it's time to grab a spoon.
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In February 2015, Loudon called Barack Obama an "Islamchurian Candidate," in reference to the book and film about a politician who is brainwashed into becoming an assassin for an international conspiracy.
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When Elaine discloses her thoughts on how to get a man to fall in love with her, Trish tells her that she sounds as though she's been brainwashed by the patriarchy.
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Mr. Ongwen's lawyers are expected to argue that their client was himself kidnapped, brutalized and brainwashed while still a boy, and that he is therefore a victim rather than a criminal.
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"Orban has masterfully brainwashed a large part of the population," said Charles Gati, a Hungary expert and senior research professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington.
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Or we were brainwashed by TV commercial propaganda that promised eating cereal would make us lean and athletic, that breakfast keeps our metabolism on track and helps us avoid bingeing later.
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"What horrifies me is that there are parents who so disapprove, who are so brainwashed to think that this is something out of the Bible or ungodly or against nature," Field continued.
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According to cult expert Rick Ross, the Leonard parents had been brainwashed over time and would have followed any instruction from Irwin, who claimed to be their only reliable path toward salvation.
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The book codifies some of that earlier backstory: he's a cocky-yet-earnest character who falls head-over-heels for Bria Tharen, a brainwashed pilgrim, and helps rescue her from her captors.
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Beaten, brainwashed and forced to build bombs, a team of psychotherapists are working to help the 'Cubs of the Caliphate' overcome memories and indoctrination from their time living under Islamic State rule.
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In Alice's battered state of mind, and after being taken as a mere child, Stone could'veeasily brainwashed her into thinking something she was coerced to do while being held prisoneris her fault.
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The parents of both Savage and Clary spoke out for the documentary "Surviving R. Kelly" and said they fear their daughters are being held against their will, and that they were brainwashed.
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He's been brainwashed by two decades of fame as the bard of the common folk, and he sees himself in the two glamorous dimensions in which the world's gaze has frozen him.
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Seen from this perspective, the square suddenly becomes a place where former proletariat turned by biocapitalism into brainwashed consumers, unaware of their deadness, mingle with the zombie revolutionary proletariat of the past.
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Ms. Park recalled how she was "brainwashed", believing that the Kim family, which has ruled the country for three generations, could read her mind, was all powerful and that they were Gods.
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Mr. Erpulat, a Turkish-born resident director at the Gorki, said in an interview that he didn't want the "youth" of the play's title to seem like brainwashed cogs in a wheel.
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This is the Steve that stole one Peggy's heart for decades, who even the brainwashed Winter Soldier couldn't forget, whose face adorned the cards in Phil Coulson's locker before they'd ever even met.
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A ballerina who was kidnapped and brainwashed into being a sleeper cell assassin of her husband (a notable officer in Overwatch), Widowmaker now exists as a unfeeling sniper who somehow needs spike heels.
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They think there's no point in putting ballots up in the box, they've got no faith in this system no place in its cogs, easy targets, they be getting brainwashed by these nobs.
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But you didn't get brainwashed by her day-to-day life, and what her child is wearing, and who she's dating, and, you know, all the things that really … is not your business.
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It also paints all Russian citizens with a broad brush as unable to make up their own mind because they are brainwashed by falsehoods pounded into the shape of truth by state media.
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Amid all the allegations they're Kelly's brainwashed sex slaves ... Joycelyn and Azriel continue to publicly support the singer -- just as they did back in February when they walked hand-in-hand into court.
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Maybe I've been brainwashed over the last couple of weeks, but given the incredible stress on our hospitals right now, the idea of just taking the risk to see what happens is … unnerving.
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The Chinese authorities have even installed monitoring cameras inside Muslims' homes, and they have sent many Muslim parents to re-education camps, leaving the children left behind to be brainwashed in boarding schools.
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Hysterical progressives have been brainwashed to believe that speech that they don't like is hate speech, that hate speech is tantamount to violence, and therefore violence to prevent such hateful speech is justifiable.
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It was during the first half of disc two, when you find yourself back at Alexandria Castle trying to rescue Princess Garnet from the main villain Kuja and Garnet's brainwashed mother Queen Brahne.
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The girl's lawyer argued in court last year that she had been "brainwashed" and "manipulated" by the man, whom she claimed to be in love with, and who had promised to marry her.
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"Having been essentially brainwashed by capitalist ideology, the [survivors] cannot see the shattered world around them in any terms other than those of possession and consumption," writes film studies professor Kyle William Bishop.
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Joycelyn Savage has said she is not being held against her will, but her parents firmly believed their daughter has been brainwashed and they have mounted a full-court press to free her.
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You can never be respectable enough, you can never be good enough, or non-threatening enough, because people in America have been brainwashed and socialized and conditioned to see you as a threat.
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It is believed that Scott and other former gamers turned soldiers were kept in deployment and thrust into combat-heavy scenarios despite the fact they were, even while brainwashed, suffering from extremely severs PTSD.
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The new report claims that the young women fell under Kelly's sway after being brought to him by their parents in an effort to further their musical careers, but that he then "brainwashed" them.
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You could easily have a North Korean-style information bubble being bred over decades where people are completely and utterly brainwashed due to the ability of their government to choose what information they see.
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Those of a conspiratorial cast of mind might wonder if he is the post-Cold War version of the fictional Manchurian Candidate, a secretly brainwashed communist dupe programmed to help elect a political rival.
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As we reported ... Van Houten was equipped with a 13-page report saying she was immature and brainwashed by Manson as a 19-year-old when she stabbed and murdered Leno and Rosemary LaBianca.
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"What we can see, clearly, is that our artists, and the intellectual class, have been brainwashed and seem to have just one view of the world," Mourão said in a telephone interview on Wednesday.
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I take those pictures because there is a real part of the people that are happy and I want to document that ... North Koreans are brainwashed, but they live like everybody in the world.
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But if he was brainwashed at his grandfather's knee the way his citizens are by him, then he will be weighing the cost of war to his people against the price of saving face.
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"Most members of al Qaeda, the Taliban, Islamic State and Nusra Front are Saudi citizens or have been brainwashed by demagogues wielding oil money," IRNA quoted him as writing, in an unusually direct allegation.
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"I don't know if they were real thugs or students, but they all have been seriously brainwashed," Junius Ho, a pro-Beijing legislator in Hong Kong, said in a video broadcast on Facebook Live.
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"We don't know whether those madmen are students or just thugs," he said of the young protesters during a Facebook live video he broadcast from Beijing, "but all of them have been seriously brainwashed."
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Devotees hail its deft, action-packed direction (by Peter Hunt), smart script (by Richard Maibaum), music both dynamic and romantic (by John Barry) and mastermind criminal scheme (brainwashed young women unwittingly conducting germ warfare).
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Hans-Georg Maassen, head of the BfV agency, told Reuters that security officials were preparing for the return of Islamic State fighters to Germany along with potentially "brainwashed" children, although no big wave appeared imminent.
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By the time the average person becomes an adult, they've been brainwashed into believing that just talking about finances leads to stress and anxiety — so they try to avoid the topic as much as possible.
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So far, no visible political candidates have really upped the ante with wearable tech, partially because we're so brainwashed with them wearing the same boring clothes for the last half century: tie, slacks, and coat.
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We tried to ignore it, but sometimes we caught ourselves repeating what history said, mumbling along, brainwashed: I am nothing.... There is a great darkness bearing down on our lives, and no one acknowledges it.
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The term "Manchurian," used to describe a compromised political actor, is derived from the 1959 novel "The Manchurian Candidate," which is about an American being unwittingly brainwashed into becoming an assassin for a Communist plot.
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That is a reference to a fable about a leader parading down the main street wearing nothing but his birthday suit and he is so brainwashed his subjects that everybody thinks he's wearing beautiful clothes.
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For the boys, many of whom struggle to get back to a normal life after being separated from their families and brainwashed into violence by the jihadist group, there are professional psychologists who provide support.
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Segments of the American media, not unlike their brainwashed counterparts in the Hermit Kingdom, were in awe of the spectacle of Trump's historic visit this weekend to the North Korean side of the Demilitarized Zone.
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R. Kelly's relationship with Joycelyn Savage -- one of his alleged brainwashed sex slaves -- has done way more than raise eyebrows with viewers of "Surviving R. Kelly" ... we're told it's caught the attention of the feds.
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I had a fantastic upbringing by two parents who cared deeply about their children, but more importantly believed that anything was possible for their children, and in some ways almost brainwashed us to be successful.
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"The L.G.B.T.Q. community have been brainwashed that the Democratic Party is for their best interests, and it's not the case," Mr. Boykin said, pointing out that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton initially opposed gay marriage.
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According to the BBC, Thae was tasked with spreading "positive perceptions of the North Korean leadership," and had said publicly that the British were brainwashed into believing "shocking, terrifying" lies about North Korea and its leader.
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While it might have seemed like Alice was brainwashed by The Farm, by the end of the episode it turns out that she was working with FBI Agent Smith to investigate it and Edgar all along.
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LONDON (Reuters) - A Maoist cult leader, convicted of raping and beating his brainwashed British female followers and keeping his own daughter a fearful prisoner for more than three decades, was jailed for 23 years on Friday.
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The reason Han-sol is considered a viable option by some is because the North Korean people have been brainwashed to believe the family of North Korean founder Kim Il-Sung are their almost divine rulers.
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Savage also touches on conversations with her parents, who took part in the documentary series "Surviving R. Kelly" and say they believe their daughter has been brainwashed and fear she is being held against her will.
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Most of what remains of civilization in this chilly white-on-white environment consists of brainwashed robotic humans who live and work together in the Collective, a communal complex where residents feel neither pain nor pleasure.
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Leaked documents from the Chinese government show the inner workings of the detention camps in Xinjiang, where reports have found that millions of Uighur Muslims are held and brainwashed under the guise of counter-terrorism efforts.
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To see the "real" Grace and Frankie care less about appearances and more about their authentic selves is inspiring, but only because we've been brainwashed into thinking that old age is a pre-death death sentence.
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"Everyone just do what you can, listen to the government follow everybody like sheep, be brainwashed by all the Zionist, Jewish people who own all the banks, all the papers, all the TV stations," he said.
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Rogers finds out that Bucky Barnes, his best friend who he thought died back in World War II before resurfacing in Winter Soldier, has been saved and brainwashed by the villainous worldwide organization known as Hydra.
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More than halfway through the third season, Betty continues her crusade against the Farm, a cult run by a man named Edgar Evernever (Chad Michael Murray), who has seemingly brainwashed her mother, sister, and now cousin, Cheryl.
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Michelle says her daughter met Kelly at just 17, and describes her child's current behavior as "brainwashed," which is similar to claims made by parents who spoke out when the alleged "sex cult" allegations surfaced in July.
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Update: A helpful reader pointed out that the "Verizon executive" in the video joking about installing a brainwashed "Verizon puppet" as FCC chair (screenshot below) is actually Kathy Grillo, Verizon senior vice president and deputy general counsel.
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Azriel Clary, 21, and Jocelyn Savage, 173, dismissed their parents' claims that they were brainwashed by the 52-year-old, and denied being held captive by him in an interview with Gayle King on CBS This Morning.
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"In most cases, workers have been heavily conditioned ... brainwashed into believing they are people who have no rights," said Emily-Anna Gibbs, a lawyer for the Anti Trafficking and Labour Exploitation Unit (ATLEU), a London-based charity.
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In 2006, former members of the cult issued a public apology and asked for forgiveness for 40 years of human rights abuses in their community, saying they were brainwashed by Schaefer, who many viewed as a god.
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YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's Minister for Religion on Tuesday said Rohingya Muslim refugees living in neighboring Bangladesh are being "brainwashed" into "marching" on the Buddhist-majority nation, amid a diplomatic feud over the fate of the persecuted minority.
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Boys brainwashed by captors Lazem is still young enough that he may one day forget the worst of his ordeal at the hands of ISIS, but for other, older children like Marwan, that may prove more difficult.
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The two women whose parents fear have been "brainwashed" by R. Kelly have been living at the R&B singer's Chicago home and walking his Pomeranian named "Believe" while he's been in jail, Kelly's lawyer told INSIDER.
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In a 90-minute lecture-turned-rant at the army headquarters on October 11th, Apirat Kongsompong, the head of Thailand's armed forces, accused academics and other leftists of implanting "communist chips" in the minds of brainwashed youths.
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But American society draws its power from the ability to envision a better tomorrow, no matter what horrors are rising today: better than a nation monitoring its movements and mouths, better than brainwashed children in gas masks.
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Accusations of corruption are rooted in the assumption that one's positions are so obviously correct that the only explanation for opposing them is that the opponent has been bought and his or her supporters have been brainwashed.
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Among them was religion minister Thura Aung Ko, who was been vocal in his disdain for the minority and last year said refugees in the camps in Bangladesh were being "brainwashed" into "marching" on Buddhist-majority Myanmar.
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Accusations of corruption are rooted in the assumption that one's positions are so obviously correct that the only explanation for opposing them is that the opponent has been bought and his or her supporters have been brainwashed.
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This morning, another part of the interview aired that featured two women, Azriel Clary and Joycelyn Savage, who the singer calls his girlfriends — and who their parents say are brainwashed into living with and remaining faithful to Kelly.
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In a video skit that played during Pai's speech, Kathy Grillo, a Verizon senior vice president, took part in a joke about how her company planned to install Pai as a brainwashed "Verizon puppet" to head the FCC.
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Matt Damon's fourth turn as Jason Bourne runs the risk of feeling, literally, like an afterthought: In 2007's Bourne Ultimatum, you'll recall, the rogue special-ops hit man finally pieced together how he was brainwashed and trained.
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The teenage boy is now an adult and told the Sunday Times that he was "brainwashed" by his abusers—of which two were reportedly teachers—and was able to access the app by using a fake birth date.
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The lyrical content of Chthonic's music shifted from normal teen angst caused by relationship woes to rage against the government that brainwashed a nation into believing something that wasn't true and suppressing his own understanding of the world.
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"When I was growing up we were brainwashed at schools, we used to think there was something bad on the other side," said Ardost, who grew up in the medieval city of Famagusta, on the island's eastern coast.
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"At fifteen this person had brainwashed me into thinking that the things that were happening were 'natural and 'okay,&apos" Pruitt wrote in a Facebook post, which has since been hidden from the public, according to USA Today.
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Cap fought Iron Man and essentially quit the Avengers for his best friend, and now that Bucky is no longer brainwashed, he's in a place where he can appreciate that and be grateful for Cap's friendship and sacrifice.
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A hot meme on TikTok right now is teens poking fun at a pair of Christian YouTubers with a pretty small following after a YouTube star introduced their videos, which he called "brainwashed and sexist," to the masses.
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MOGADISHU, Somalia — The newly elected president of Somalia, Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, declared war on the Shabab militant group on Thursday and offered amnesty to fighters, whom he referred to as "brainwashed youth," if they surrendered within 60 days.
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But maybe I was just brainwashed by the high school coach who told me that going one second too fast in the first mile of a race meant you'd go five seconds too slow in the last one.
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On the July 9, 2015, episode of his show (starting around 17:40 here), Jones performs what is presumably a dead-on accurate portrayal of the pagan child sacrifice rituals of brainwashed, Moloch-worshipping, tribal village cult members.
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She responded to this claim in a video released in 2017, in which she denied she was part of a "cult" of women being "controlled" by Kelly and that she had been "brainwashed" by the Grammy-award winning singer.
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Labour Party Member of Parliament David Lammy, whose Tottenham constituency is home to Mrs E and her husband, told VICE News the couple appeared "brainwashed" and were in a state of deep anguish when they came to see him.
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The song follows two perspectives: A true story from Killer Mike's past about the guilt he felt after selling drugs to a pregnant woman, and El-P's more political message about how kids get brainwashed into joining the military.
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In the opening episodes of this season, Theon, a man of middling morals who was held hostage, tortured, castrated and brainwashed (by Ramsay, as it so happens), is faced with saving his sister during an attack on their ship.
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"It's either people feel threatened by my fierceness or people are so brainwashed by media that a perfect pair of tits or butt is fine to flash but a body that's outside of the norm is offensive," she wrote.
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Murad Ismael said many Yazidi women and girls had been brainwashed or killed in captivity, while those who had managed to escape after years of enslavement and rape were left struggling to survive without an income or identity papers.
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What I think what's most important is this is a 14 year old who's buying a stock, has not been brainwashed into thinking that he can't pick anything … he's going to make good money and I think it's sensational.
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While recognizing the relative sophistication and creativeness of ISIS' propaganda factory, what has been concerning is the number of people reducing the participation of these women in ISIS' state-building enterprise as a result of being groomed or brainwashed.
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It's just really, really sad that somebody would pretend to be me and put it out in the world and say that I'm a victim, that I am brainwashed, I'm a sex slave — it doesn't get worse than that.
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In the months we've spent poring over this location data, speaking with people we were able to identify and reporting on the industry, one thing has become crystal clear: This is the decade we were brainwashed into surveilling ourselves.
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Cap's every attempt to cope with the hole in his heart left by outliving his friends has been thwarted by further strife: Bucky and Peggy are alive, but one is a brainwashed killing machine and the other is suffering from dementia.
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We're not even two minutes in and Lorelai's already made an Anne Hathaway Les Mis joke and a Goop reference, as in: Rory has been "Gooped," a verb meaning she's been brainwashed by Gwyneth Paltrow and her $220,232 sex toys.
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Mosul residents said they fear these young fighters as much, if not more, than other ISIS militants because they have been brainwashed, have no fear and have a great amount of zealotry after being indoctrinated and trained for two years.
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"The School of Anti-Imperialism is a school that seeks to preserve life, unlike the School of the Americas, which brainwashed military officers into believing that the enemy was our people," Bolivia's Defence Minister Reymi Ferreira said during the opening ceremony.
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Sadly, it is becoming more and more common to hear both domestic students and university staff voicing mistrust of Chinese students tout court, assuming they must all be politically brainwashed dupes at best or at worst, sleeper agents of the party.
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BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian celebrities who joined millions of women in a campaign against far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro have been "brainwashed," with his low female support explained by women taking their time to shop around, his running mate told Reuters.
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Death by drug-dealers was much more plausible than death by a far-out cult of brainwashed teenage runaways and the puppet-master who convinced them he was Jesus Christ and thought the Beatles' wrote the "White Album" for him.
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WASHINGTON — George T. Conway III has described the work of his wife, Kellyanne Conway, for President Trump in terms usually reserved for hostage situations: brainwashed by a cult, suffering from Stockholm syndrome, an overwhelmed mother protecting a destructive man-child.
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"My father had a very strong view of what it took to be successful, and he in effect brainwashed all his children to think that we could do anything," Mr. Frazier said in a 2011 interview with the Harvard Law Bulletin.
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"Unfortunately Bernie Sanders has such a footing because the kids have been brainwashed at colleges to believe socialism is a good thing," said Rene Campbell, 57, who had just listened to Kirk's speech and believed Sanders would be the 2020 nominee.
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In the church of our nation&aposs religion, innovation, we&aposve been brainwashed to believe big tech&aposs cultures are so unique, their leaders so visionary, that only they (the chosen ones) can produce disruptive voice, cloud, and wearable products.
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While others called to testify at her trial described Reali as a domineering personality prone to outbursts of violence — with her former mother-in-law expressing doubts that she could be brainwashed — Brian was also found guilty of involvement in the shooting.
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Michelle, who has been in contact with the Savages and the Clarys, says her daughter N. is "brainwashed" and part of the Kelly "cult," the words used by the other families and reported to Georgia's Johns Creek Police Department in December 2016.
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Despite Tiger Woods recently coming to the White House to accept the Medal of Freedom from Trump, Cain says other athletes and celebs who've opted to ixnay any WH visits are also brainwashed -- and should stick to what they do best ... entertain.
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So, it is clear that Francis Scott Key, author of "The Star-Spangled Banner" and a man whom I and countless other Americans of all races were brainwashed into believing was a hero, was nothing of the sort; he was a slaveholding racist.
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Under its influence, he spent years convinced that one of the leaders of the American Deserters Committee had been a CIA agent who was bending the minds of his comrades to create a network of brainwashed zombies who would do his bidding.
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Xie, who had worked on several cases deemed politically sensitive by China's ruling Communist Party, also said he had undergone "training" on three occasions in Hong Kong and South Korea, where he was "brainwashed" into trying to promote western constitutionalism in China.
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Investigators said Rodger was motivated to carry out his attack by a personal grievance related to his immersion in the extremist ideological subculture of men's rights activists, who believe women don't actually want gender equality and have been brainwashed by feminist propaganda.
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In addition to his tweet at Ryan, Legend also retweeted a post from writer Saladin Ahmed: "if you think stealing someone's baby is a reasonable response to them crossing an imaginary line on the ground you are either brainwashed or a horrible person."
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"The rhetoric from the media and politicians is they're brainwashed, they're deceived, they're lovestruck, they don't know what they're doing," said Meredith Loken, an assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst who has studied women who join violent extremist groups.
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R. Kelly tells TMZ ... allegations he brainwashed Joycelyn Savage and held her and others captive to be part of a sex cult is a false narrative conjured up by Joycelyn's father and mother who are sour after the singer turned down their services.
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" A conservative writer and speaker whose previous books include "Bullies: How the Left's Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences Americans" and "Brainwashed: How Universities Indoctrinate America's Youth," Shapiro begins by saying that we live "in the best world that has ever existed.
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Neither of the young women sat down for interviews with the filmmakers, but last year, they told Gayle King of "CBS This Morning" that despite their parents' claims that they had been brainwashed, they were both happily and willingly living with Mr. Kelly.
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Merril -- an ex-Steelers RB and former ESPN analyst -- makes the argument in his new book, "Brainwashed: The Bad Science Behind CTE and the Plot to Destroy Football," that football does NOT necessarily lead to CTE, as some reports have strongly suggested.
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The perception that Obama was a cleaner, less scandal-ridden politician helped him defeat her in a 2008 primary facing an electorate that was not at all composed of die-hard right-wing Clinton haters brainwashed by Matt Drudge and Fox News.
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Hoge sparked controversy last year when he co-authored a book called "Brainwashed," questioning the science behind CTE, the brain disease associated with frequent head injuries and has led to lawsuits by NFL players who suffered repeated head trauma over the course of their careers.
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It's up to model Derek Zoolander (Ben Stiller), who's become yesterday's news thanks to the latest flash in the pan, Hansel (Owen Wilson), to save the Prime Minister of Malaysia from an assassination attempt — that Derek himself has been brainwashed to carry out, mind you.
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Stevenson and her team stay true to She-Ra's origin story: She's a princess named Adora, brainwashed to fight on the side of evil (the Horde), who, by way of magic sword finds out her true destiny to fight on the side of the rebellion.
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A Long Island man from a wealthy family who argued he was brainwashed to kill his cousin's former boyfriend was convicted of attempted murder on Monday, after a lengthy trial that featured expert witnesses who testified about the effect of indoctrination on a weak psyche.
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Mr. Brounstein contended Ms. Buchbinder had turned Mr. Nolan into a weapon, and he argued Mr. Nolan was so brainwashed that he did not understand the consequences of his actions, sitting down after the attack and taking bloody photos of himself rather than fleeing.
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These people, they said, join the anti-Trump crowd not because they are led by independent thought or conscience to oppose President Trump's policies, but because they're brainwashed sheep who have been conditioned to parrot left-wing orthodoxy, in the manner of a scripted character.
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However, the earliest entrant in the 22019 contest, George Romney, was eliminated well into his campaign by just one word, "brainwashed," and in 1972 another early contender, Ed Muskie, by a single sob on the campaign trail just days before the New Hampshire primary.
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And as the scene zooms out, we find out he and Cap (Chris Evans) are in a Wakandan facility and that Black Panther/T'Challa has offered to help rehabilitate Bucky — to not only fix his blown-off arm but also repair his damaged, brainwashed mind.
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"We think our leaders need to be reminded very strongly that they do not own our country, that they are not above the law (or constitution) and that there are still enough caring people who are not brainwashed by hateful propaganda," said Rubas, 50.
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Newcomer Spaeny (who will star alongside Felicity Jones in On The Basis of Sex later this year) also makes her mark as a young girl torn between the only family she has left, and the man who has brainwashed her into thinking he's got divine status.
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So much of Civil War hinges on the audience believing Cap would sacrifice anything for his friend Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan), who was brainwashed by the evil organization Hydra and is now trying to fight off his evil conditioning to resume something of a normal life.
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The film's most interesting and unsettling conceit is that the ranch where Rick and Cliff once shot their TV show is now occupied by Charles Manson and his brainwashed acolytes, and Cliff suspects the ranch's owner (Bruce Dern) has been kidnapped—or worse—by the interlopers.
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Given the authoritarianism that's fueling Donald Trump's victory in the Republican primary and giving credence to UK conservatives like the Independence Party, it's easy to see "Burn the Witch" as a commentary on brainwashed citizenry falling behind sinister leaders like Lord Summerisle and Sandford's Neighborhood Watch Alliance.
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Jeffrey is understandably perturbed, wondering if his father has been brainwashed into some kind of dangerous cult, or whether his decision is a perverse manifestation, as an immensely wealthy man, of wanting to exert control over his life — in this case, by choosing to end it.
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"Nothing says 'we value independent media' like dozens of reporters forced to repeat the same message over and over again like members of a brainwashed cult," Oliver said on Sunday's "Last Week Tonight" in a clip that, like so many others from his show, went viral.
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His oldest brother and youngest brother both predeceased him — lost to senseless religious violence in Kashmir, having been brainwashed by the prominent religious leader Hafiz Saeed into believing that it was their patriotic duty to journey to the contentious India–Pakistan border and get shot at.
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Growing up in North Korea in the 1980s, I was brainwashed into believing that South Koreans were suffering horribly under their government, but that with the unconditional support of the North Korean people, our "Dear Leader" Kim Il-sung would liberate our southern neighbors and reunify the Korean Peninsula.
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All of these women, including Tate, had their youth and beauty exploited when they were still teenagers, but there's no sense in Tarantino's narrative that a commonality might lie between them, or that the Manson girls, abused and brainwashed by a serial sexual predator, were also victims, not monsters.
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Star Wars has long struggled to categorize exactly which lives matter; the sequel trilogy asks us to care for individual stormtroopers like Finn but still cheer their deaths as brainwashed mooks, for example, and it depicts droids as fully sentient entities while still casually accepting them as property.
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He spent two and a half years with the group, working to bring in new members, raise money, and preach the teachings of its controversial founder, Sun Myung Moon—until a near-fatal car accident helped him realize he'd been brainwashed, and led him to flee the cult.
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Oh, and the NCAA has brainwashed most of us into thinking that this is cool and good; that it's somehow unethical to help someone without the means to pay for basic necessities; and that, somehow, Tunsil has "sold out" his coaches by being, you know, honest about the whole situation.
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" After assuring in the tape that, "I have never been forced to say anything on any tape nor have I been brainwashed, drugged, tortured, hypnotized or in any way confused," Hearst breaks off her relationships with then-fiancé with the words, "Love doesn't mean the same thing to me anymore.
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In both, parents are subject to external mind control, although, in "The 5,000 Fingers," Bart's widowed mother (the singer and TV personality Mary Healy) isn't brainwashed by Martians but indoctrinated by the mad Dr. Terwilliker (Hans Conried, who was the voice of Captain Hook in Walt Disney's 1953 animated "Peter Pan").
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Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE recently suggested that women were being in some sense forced or brainwashed into following their spouses.
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The jaunty design employed by Mr. Sanders, a socialist politician who once famously said he never applied the term to himself because "people have been brainwashed into thinking socialism automatically means slave-labor camps, dictatorship and lack of freedom of speech," had two curved red and white lines underscoring his name.
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" Savage's family, who have long expressed fears she was brainwashed and was being held in Kelly's "cult," also expressed cautious optimism, with Griggs telling the New York Times, "We are attempting to make contact with Joy and the family is ready to welcome her back with love and open arms.
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Some of my black friends and followers, just as brainwashed as I was until recently, may say "but it is tradition," or that "it unites us all," to which I counter, no, figures like Nat Turner, Denmark Vesey, Gabriel Prosser — men who plotted or delivered insurrection against their enslavers — would beg to differ.
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In one memorable session on Thursday afternoon, Katherine Cross read an extract from her forthcoming book about the need for more "immoral women" in games—fleshed-out villainesses who antagonize the player for considered reasons, and not just because they were brainwashed by a magic sword or some such hand-wavy bollocks.
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In the interview with The Guardian, bin Laden's mother blames outsiders such as bin Laden's Palestinian mentor, Abdullah Azzam, who purportedly "brainwashed" her son and converted him to jihadism when bin Laden was a young man in his 20s fighting in the "holy war" in Afghanistan against the Soviets in the mid-1980s.
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"There's No Way I'll Send My Kids to Public School to Be Brainwashed by the LGBT Lobby," read one headline, linking to an essay ripped from Glenn Beck's The Blaze; "Alert: UN Backs Secret Obama Takeover of Police; Here's What We Know ...," read another, copied from a site called The Federalist Papers Project.
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There's a maturity to his language that makes his choices all the more galling: He may have once been a brainwashed child or a lovestruck teen, but at the time he sits down to recount (and perhaps atone) for how he's treated Elsa, the reader cannot help but see a full-grown adult.
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The militant group brainwashed and brutalized children by schooling them to perceive Western values as evil, engaging them in combat training and, in some cases, forcing them to carry weapons and commit acts of violence, said Daniel Koehler, the director of the German Institute on Radicalization and De-radicalization Studies in Stuttgart.
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It's also interesting to note that, contrary to the vision of a generation of young authoritarians brainwashed in elite universities, there is very little age polarization on these issues — 56 percent of 18- to 34-year-olds support the right of the racist to give a speech, versus 60 percent of the overall population.
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"She's going to be very confused, because she was brainwashed by this guy and she doesn't quite understand why everyone is acting like it's a kidnapping," says Dr. Michelle Stevens, a California-based psychologist who recently wrote a book about her personal story of being raped by her stepfather, who was a local teacher.
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In giving Bucky a chance at a new life, T'Challa puts himself in a precarious position with Iron Man and the UN. The last time Black Panther saw Iron Man, Iron Man was reeling from the revelation that Bucky, while brainwashed, had killed Iron Man's parents, and was trying to kill Captain America out of retaliation.
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Throughout the documentary, Broberg (who now goes by Jan Broberg Felt) explains how the man, Robert "B" Berchtold, abducted her twice in the 1970s (once when she was 12 and again when she was 14) and brainwashed her to believe that she was part of a top-secret alien mission which required her to carry his child.
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REUTERS RECOMMENDS The long, rough ride ahead for 'Made in America' United Air removes couple traveling to wedding from plane Ukraine launches big blockchain deal with tech firm Bitfury The militants had forced the teachers to continue working but most parents pulled out their children, fearing they would be brainwashed with an extreme version of Sunni Islam.
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While the women's parents say they are brainwashed and much of the world now sees Mr. Kelly as an unrelenting sexual predator, who has been trailed for decades by accusations of abuse and sex with underage girls, Ms. Clary and Ms. Savage lashed out at their families and said they were happy as Mr. Kelly's girlfriends.
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Over the course of the next decade, Berchtold manipulated Bob and Mary Ann Broberg (both through intimidation and sexual blackmail), kidnapped Jan twice over a two-year period, brainwashed her into believing she they were the only two people who could save the planet so she'd become dependent on him, repeatedly drugged her, and sexually assaulted her hundreds of times.
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Grooming, she explained, can be very difficult to identify when you're under the spell of a sociopath like B. He slowly and subtly brainwashed the entire family, including igniting sexual affairs with both Broberg parents — a detail that helped arm the pedophile with blackmail fuel and possibly acted as the reason the Brobergs waited three days to report Jan's first abduction to authorities.
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Growing up, Song says he revered North Korean founder Kim Il Sung as a god, and was "100 percent" loyal to his son and successor Kim Jong Il. "I really believed we were the happiest people (in the world) because we had been brainwashed since childhood," he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in London where he is showing his paintings.
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Sen. James InhofeJames (Jim) Mountain InhofeDemocrats, environmentalists blast Trump rollback of endangered species protections Bottom Line Overnight Defense: Dems talk Afghanistan, nukes at Detroit debate | Senate panel advances Hyten nomination | Iranian foreign minister hit with sanctions | Senate confirms UN ambassador MORE says school children are being "brainwashed" into believing in climate change and that parents need to "un-brainwash" them.
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And writing at Medium, Mary Annaïse Heglar with the Natural Resources Defense Council observed that black people in the United States have long had to weigh the ethics of having children as racism has persisted for generations: Imagine living under a calculated, meticulous system dedicated to and dependent on your oppression and being surrounded by that system's hysterical, brainwashed guardians.
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" And that's the perverse beauty of a conspiracy theory: The more that people denounce it as crazy, the more it stiffens the conviction of its adherents that they're correct ("We must be, because no one else believes it, and you sheeple are all brainwashed, ergo") to the point where they end up pitying you: "If only you could see the signs: They're everywhere!
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"For some reason on [ABC's] TGIF we would just do these [episodes] that were like full on dramas and nobody seemed to notice," said Strong of famous Boy Meets World episode "Cult Fiction," in which a lost Shawn gets brainwashed by a hug-happy cult, only to be brought down to Earth when his guardian Mr. Turner (Anthony Tyler Quinn) gets into a near-fatal motorcycle accident.
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In the wake of cancellations and protests at his concerts, streaming services removing his music from playlists, and continued media attention on the parents who told police their daughters are "brainwashed" and part of R. Kelly's "cult," as BuzzFeed News first reported last July, the battle between the R&B superstar and his most high-profile detractors may be reaching a new level of intensity.
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Elian's Miami relatives argued if the boy went back to Cuba, he would become a brainwashed trophy for Castro in his long-running feud with the US. As the two sides fought out the high-profile case in court, U.S. immigration officials decided to put Elian in the custody of his father, who had come to the United States to press for his son's return.
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The men were identified as Michael Holwell and Douglas Ammerman, and their conduct when questioned, as described in a handwritten report, was certainly suspicious: When an officer talked to the oldest of the children, named Mary, the answers weren't any more reassuring: The strange reference to "the game-caller"—Pettie—was incomprehensible to investigators, and made them believe the children may have been brainwashed.
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Why, at the start of this week, we thought that Captain America was a defender of liberty with admittedly poor judgment (Cap, if Bucky can be brainwashed just by someone saying a few words, why are you taking him on a mission with you without any other backup?), but thanks to the internet, we now know that he's actually a Nazi who definitely isn't gay.
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They fear that their son is being brainwashed into being a good little soldier, a loyal Chinese patriot, and are sure that the school employs methods that rankle American sensibilities, including hard-edged coercion; public competition, with posted rankings of everything from height and hemoglobin level to recorder skills, punctuality and politeness; and even threats of calling the police if a child doesn't take a nap.
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The country has been brainwashed by a powerful alliance of forces hostile to government: big business, especially Wall Street, spending unparalleled lobbying dollars to advance its narrow self-interest; a new wealthy elite propagating wrongheaded Ayn Randian notions that free markets are always good and government always bad; and a Republican Party using a strategy of attacking and weakening government as a way to win more power for itself.
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Her biggest priority is to get her crush Mamoru to notice her — he's the reincarnation of her true love, but he was brainwashed and now has amnesia, long story — but that's only because she hasn't yet realized that every new business that opens in her town is an elaborate scheme designed to steal the energy of innocent humans, so of course the outing is going to be a working date.
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They include Hassan, who tells her he still wants justice for the Palestinians but "would never again raise a weapon against anyone"; her husband, Ilan (Scott Zimmerman), who thinks that she's been brainwashed, perhaps by someone in the peace group she's joined; her father (David Mandelbaum), whose charge in the 1948 war was to rid Jaffa of Palestinians; and Geula (Marilyn Lucchi), the embittered mother of Yael's dead friend, who sees no point to Yael's dialogue with a murderer.
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That I'm a careerist, obsessed with my own profile, driven by selling books or making money, that the Guardian have brainwashed me, that I was never really left-wing, and so on and so forth Added with the usual far-right extremists sending ever more creative descriptions of how they're going to torture and murder me, I'm no longer convinced social media is as useful a tool for political debate and discussion as it once was.
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