MagnusRex

Husband, dad, engineer. My hope is not found in Washington DC

[MagnusRex @acemiller6]

@JenniferSey @WNBA @sophaller @xx_xyathletics I will absolutely but one…or 10

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@FreddyLA7 Taco Bell + explosive diarrhea + 8 hour flight home. This is going to be epic

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@jputt714 @elonmusk I lied? That's why there's a video genius.

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I’m telling you, there is plenty of room on the mountain for Trump and face. I want him to allude to it tonight so that millions of heads can explode

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@GoCardsKY @ClayTravis Ha! Good catch. But it would be totally on brand. I'm leaving it 🤣

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@FreddyLA7 If you are willing to push your drive by an hour or two, into northern Indiana, go to a place called the Essenhaus in Middlebury. It's an Amish restaurant, but they have a bakery. Get a chocolate long John with custard filling... you can thank me later

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@KanekoaTheGreat @Justin_Gaethje President Autopen is still on the wall 🤣

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@ZacksJerryRig The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics has entered the chat

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@DschlopesIsBack Her footwork is that of a right hander shooter...but she's "shooting" it with her left.

[Dami-Defi @DamiDefi]

https://t.co/ksvC4bKpZ7

[Kenny Carmody @KennyCarmody]

Every obedience experiment in history had the same overlooked finding.

Not everyone complied.

In Milgram’s lab, 35% refused to deliver the final shock. In Asch’s line experiments, 25% never conformed, not once, across any trial. In Zimbardo’s prison, at least one guard refused to dehumanize. One prisoner demanded a lawyer instead of a doctor and broke the psychological frame entirely.

We spent decades studying the ones who obeyed.

We barely asked what made the others different.

That question matters more now than it ever has.

The resisters in the COVID era were not difficult to find. Physicians who filed exemptions and lost their licenses. Nurses who walked away from careers rather than mandate patients into decisions they hadn’t genuinely chosen. Scientists who published contrary data knowing what it would cost them. Parents who stood alone at school board meetings. Ordinary people who simply said, quietly, without drama , no.

What made them different?

Research consistently identifies a cluster of factors. Not personality traits you either have or don’t. Situational and cognitive patterns that can be cultivated.

First: prior reflection on authority. The resisters had usually thought, before the crisis, about the limits of institutional trust. They weren’t cynics. They were people who had already asked the question “under what conditions would I refuse?” before anyone was asking them to comply.

Second: a concrete reference point outside the consensus. A value, a principle, an oath, a relationship that existed independently of the institutional structure demanding compliance. Something the system couldn’t reach.

Third: at least one other person. Milgram found that a single dissenting confederate reduced compliance dramatically. The resisters rarely stood entirely alone. They found each other. Sustained each other. Gave each other permission.

Fourth: the willingness to tolerate social pain. Not immunity to it. Tolerance of it. They felt the pressure. They felt the exclusion. They chose the discomfort of integrity over the comfort of belonging.
None of this is innate. All of it is learnable.

The most important thing Milgram, Asch, and Zimbardo taught us is not how fragile conscience is.

It’s that conscience can hold, if you’ve trained it, named its limits, and found even one other person willing to hold theirs beside you.

Build that now. Because the experiment is always running.

Until then stay humble.

[Strib Varsity @StribVarsity]

Shiaflyn Cooper, Matthew Prethish, Connor Erickson, Ella Lysne, Norah Miller, Caden Hennes and Ava Knutson had a phenomenal week. https://t.co/H8dmN9jte5

[MagnusRex @acemiller6]

If you were vaccinated you should have been safe, right? Either that, or..... it wasn't a vaccine. Amirite?

[MAZE @mazemoore]

This is one of the more important videos I’ve made.

Never forget this evil.

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@F1 Look at how far his steering wheel was turned to the left prior to the failure just to drive straight. Clearly he knew something was wrong and it's why he was headed into the pits in the first place.

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@MarlowNYC @bivens83306 You wouldn't know truth if it slapped you in the face

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@GovPressOffice Don't you have a train to catch?

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Are these the same experts that said "if you get vaxxed, you won't get Covid"? Or the experts that said "if you get vaxxed, you can still get Covid, but you won't spread it"? Or are these the experts that said, "well, you can still get and spread Covid, but your symptoms won't be so bad"? Its hard to keep track of which experts we are using these days.

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@GavinNewsom What’s sad to me is that not a single thing claimed here is actually happening, yet it has 38k likes.