Is that even possible?

Gusset.... you voting Remain on Thursday is more of a cert than Shergar was to win the Derby FFS.

Nope I agree with the other lads and noticed this myself & in fact mentioned this on the EU thread. For someone who claims 'Not to have made their mind up' you post an awful lot of 'Remain' yet never balance it out with 'Leave'. I'm guessing like most of us here that your mind is indeed made up & you'll vote to Remain. Now that's your choice & I have no problem with it, just show some balls and admit it.

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Nick doesn't half have to put up with some over the top aggressive playground style bullying on here sometimes.

I'm not entirely convinced that they have been. The technique of brainwashing is typically not very effective and in many cases not clearly documented - also it may well be a case that its served more as a defence than a statement of truth.

Often what gets called brainwashing, is simply social conditioning and incentives, which are a far more effective way of obtaining influence over someone than breaking them down and trying to reconstruct them through trauma.

Problem is, that whilst it can work the duration tends to be brief once they're introduced back into society, and often even with suggestion and hypnosis, its not really possible to get someone to do something they don't want to do.

Then building them back up to be reliable, is even harder. The Chinese used something akin to this in the Korean war, and it wasn't particularly very effective. I think you can really break people psychologically, but then getting them to do things, and not remember, is more the realm of classic fiction, than practical reality. It might be possible, but it would I think be unpractical.

It is in theory possible with hypnosis and suggestion to get someone to shoot someone, against their will, but it involves very controlled conditions and instructions. You can't tell them to take a gun out of the house, and go and shoot someone. You have to effectively remove the notion that they're shooting someone specific from the instructions. Plus they're likely to remember being hypnotised.

More likely, someone like Muir, with a history of mental illness and an interest in the far right, is likely to build his psychosis around social cues, and construct a fantasy / delusion built on far right views - and they're responding to disturbed social triggers and cues.

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