Honestly I’m not even upset. Props for walking outside like that.

Id give this guy a thumbs up and hope he doesn’t rage at me.

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You see lots of people say that, “It’s a cult.” and leave it at that.

It absolutely has elements of a new religious movement. They have been brainwashed by YouTube, Facebook groups, telegram or whatever messaging app they’re using now. Real big overlap between Qanon and hardcore MAGAts.

It plays into their bias and tells them they’re special, that they see behind the curtain. Their life is miserable due to a conspiracy by the evil liberals, the 1%, and the Jews.

It short circuits logic by punching the fear and anger button. Most of them are angry and afraid.

Chump didn’t plan this shit, it’s like a perfect storm of bullshit.

Sucks real bad and I don’t think there is any way to help most of them. They’re bent for life even if Chump is gone. They’ll latch on to the next thing. May fracture into a bunch of weird offshoots. Right wing grifters have made fortunes off them. I think it unlikely that many of them ever make it back to reality.

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They’ll latch on to the next thing. May fracture into a bunch of weird offshoots

Ah, like Christianity.

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Without even a mostly unified text to guide them. Best thing that could happen is they splinter into even more factions than Christianity and lose all power as a result.

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so basically its just fascism, but america instead.

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Yeah, it’s like straight out of the fascist playbook. It just sucks and blows my mind that it’s such transparent bullshit. The critical thinking skills are so poor in a large segment of our society.

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yeah, unfortunately for a lot of them, it’s not just critical thinking, but more so reasoning skills. People are too quick to just believe shit they see and then run all in on it.

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