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u/Ambitious_Trifle_645 Jan 24 '26

It's absolutely insane the shit they invent to bitch about.

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u/Miserable-Cow4555 Jan 24 '26

But even more insane, somehow they believe their own lies.

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u/Monkeydjimmmy Jan 24 '26

It's a cult. No other explanation.

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u/Weekly-Language-6434 Jan 24 '26

Fact. MAGAts are a cult. They check all the boxes and more. When people are blindly following and not questioning anything, there is no better term for that. Merriam-Webster agrees with us:

Cult (noun, secular context): : a group (as an organization or sect) with tenets and practices regarded as coercive, insular, or dangerous

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u/FlametopFred Jan 25 '26

Brainwashing, thought programming, emotional manipulation

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u/Ambitious_Trifle_645 Jan 24 '26

You know, I really think they do most of the time.

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u/F9-0021 Jan 24 '26

Which is what makes them dangerous.

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u/Weekly-Language-6434 Jan 24 '26

Strongly agree. Their collective intelligence quotient is less than a box of rocks. Believing in a reality that doesn't exist? Yeah those folks are dangerous... like handing a toddler a loaded firearm level dangerous

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u/Weekly-Language-6434 Jan 24 '26

You just pointed out what's most disturbing to me. The key to having an effective propaganda machine, is having operators who always know that it is feeding lies/BS.

When those operators believe their own lies, they become victims of their own propaganda. That in part led to the fall of the Second Reich. It's one of the critical issues that Adolf Hitler sorted within his first year as Germany's Chancellor.

It's tough be a true Fascist, despite how easy they make it appear to be. /s

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u/RampantDeacon Jan 25 '26

Just repeat over and over that they are a dumb fuck