Mike Antenucci

Owner, Mateva Gardens. An estate landscape management company ✝️

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@sircalebhammer Meidas Touch gaming the system by releasing short clips. Same person watching 5 small clips (comprising ~1 hr) is counted as 5 views

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@jamestalarico @BryanDeanWright I hope you’ve learned to reflect prior to smashing the “post” button

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@novic_william @markkaplan20 Wallach, damn auto correct needs some Vitamin C

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@novic_william @markkaplan20 Yes! I have an old cassette of that Wallace talk floating around somewhere 🤝

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@3YearLetterman @khamenei_ir @funeralinsider Sweet! The Vienna sausage boat is now inbound

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@nicksortor Find out if they’re issued a 1099 for tax purposes

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@cluckthesystem @RealitySalesman @rosadelauro Yeah, and she’s still mad that Dorothy’s house landed on her sister

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@rosadelauro Multi billionaire, dude. You still mad that Dorothy’s house landed on your sister?

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@mloehrer @3YearLetterman …and he can no longer sing it well. I’ll do better next time🤦‍♂️

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@mloehrer @3YearLetterman 😂Yeah, he’s got that one song that Donnie likes 🤷‍♂️

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@3YearLetterman Those 90s Braves teams were such underachievers. Sid Bream would have been relegated to chief waterbed salesman on those 70s Reds teams.
I understand that a domestic abuse charge is mandatory in order to purchase Braves season tickets

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@Chuck2TIW @SecretaryBurgum @POTUS

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@XavierBecerra

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@grahamformaine Looks like H¡tler’s bunker

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@KennyCarmody @OpenVAERS 👊🤝👏we ended the “pandemic”

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To my fellow Resisters💪🤝👊👏

[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.

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@KyleKulinski My gosh. Get well soon

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@libsoftiktok “There is no one coming to save us. We’ve got to do it ourselves.” Brucie, we’ve been telling you this for years. While you’ve screeched for govt intervention in our lives, we’ve asked for less of it. It would seem that all of your Botox has melted your brain.

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@seanfeucht @KavEagle Dart learned that TDS is real