The 'Weirder' Side Of News!

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Feeling like you want to beat up people who have a different skin-colour than you?
How about that penchant you have for playing with tiki-torches, you know you can
almost write your name with one if you move it fast enough...? Want to get rid of it?

Then take a pill, take a pill and you will no longer want to vote for Donald Trump or shave
your head. As The Mix website says, take 'Ecstasy's cooler sister' and let all that assumed
animosity soak away.

But don't worry, the BBC endorse this type of mood-changing pharmaceutical and regardless
if there's a book to sell from one of their own, the story is for you. You... who only wants to be
like them. 

(Brendon-Brandon...? Gimme a break!)

How a dose of MDMA transformed a white supremacist



'Brendan was once a leader in the US white nationalist movement.
But when he took the drug MDMA in a scientific study, it would radically change his extremist beliefs –to the
surprise of everyone involved. Rachel Nuwer investigates what happened.

In February 2020, Harriet de Wit, a professor of psychiatry and behavioural science at the University of Chicago,
was running an experiment on whether the drug MDMA increased the pleasantness of social touch in healthy volunteers.
The day was proceeding like any other Tuesday when Mike Bremmer, de Wit's research assistant, appeared at her
office door with a concerned look on his face.

The latest participant in the double-blind trial, a man named Brendan, had filled out a standard questionnaire at the end.
Strangely, at the very bottom of the form, Brendan had written in bold letters: "This experience has helped me sort out
a debilitating personal issue. Google my name. I now know what I need to do."

Seeing this cryptic message, both Bremmer and de Wit were worried. "We really have to look into this," de Wit said.
They googled Brendan's name, and up popped a disturbing revelation: until just a couple of months before, Brendan
had been the leader of the US Midwest faction of Identity Evropa, a notorious white nationalist group rebranded in 2019
as the American Identity Movement.
Two months earlier, activists at Chicago Antifascist Action had exposed Brendan's identity, and he had lost his job...'

BBC:

Be warned, sickly magniloquence resides in the BBC link, but the bottom line is take the MDMA drug and you'll never
have to pay fiscal or oral subscription to the Skinhead community again.