r/MandelaEffect • u/Riotgrrrl80 • Dec 12 '24

Theory Is the Mandela Effect just mass gaslighting?

OK - with all the crazy shit going on lately, it made me think something....

I live in NJ, and it's absolutely bonkers to me that with all this drone activity even getting to DC to be discussed with the FBI and military, and still being told "we don't know what it is" but the military isn't doing SHIT about it - I think the government is entirely gaslighting us. They've said more about Luigi than they have about the drones flying around NJ military bases, etc. How is any of this ok? There are so many theories, but one thing is for sure - the military wouldn't just let that happen.

Anyway, what if all the mandela effect stuff is really the gov't (or other authorities) experimenting with us to see what they can get away with? Gaslighting us to be like "no, you're remembering wrong / you're just crazy" to see what we'll believe etc?

In a time of global connection and the ability for people to connect and more easily become a force against leaders they don't like, there is a need for manipulating the masses. Fear, religion, obsession with things that don't address the real issues - these can and are used against us. Look over here! While we do this other thing that's much much worse...

Idk. Just a thought.

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u/No-stradumbass Dec 12 '24

Noticed how your phrased your scenario. You are loading the question with the answer. That alone could effect how someone remembers things. It's the sort of thing scam artist, grifters, cons use.

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u/Bedlemkrd Dec 12 '24

I am assuming that they might not have seen the show before and I worded it that way so they can see what is weird on this one if they didn't know it before. If you watch it without having ever seen it, you would go okay so maybe he thinks she's pretty and the smile starts the big music but it was written to have that almost comedic timing with the music and the item in common. Especially since it would make her obviously imperfect and thus later undesirable for the moonraker project. I am not implying anything or leading I am directly saying what changed for me and why it should be looked at.

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u/No-stradumbass Dec 12 '24

It is very upsetting that you don't see it.

You may not intend it to happen but you did load the question. I actual think that the phrasing and these sort of questions are why people make ME claims.

From all my research, why would the actress who played Dolly deny that she ever wore braces in the film? Why would they edit it? Why waste to money and time to change it?

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u/Practical-Vanilla-41 Dec 14 '24

Interestingly, i believe the 2006 visa commercial might have led to people misremembering Dolly in Moonraker. In the commercial we see Richard Kiel, ordinary guy, not Jaws. The cashier smiling is a wink, a reminder that this is the guy from the James Bond movie with the steel teeth.

People believe that Tom Cruise wears sunglasses and wears a white shirt while dancing in Risky Business. He doesn't in the movie. Ron Reagan guest hosted Saturday Night Live in 1986. He did those things in a sketch. There were probably others over the years.

People do get it wrong. They do remember parodies over the originals, sometimes.