• hactar42@lemmy.ml
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    Meanwhile if you drive down I-40 in Tennessee you’ll see billboard for the Trump Superstore

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      39 minutes ago

      I passed some farmer’s big “Trump 2024” sign once - it looked like it had been hit with a couple dozen small red… somethings. I kinda wished it had been from a paintball gun with enough to drip down & look like blood.

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      6 hours ago

      with any luck they’ll confuse it with a McDonald’s commercial and follow instructions blindly

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      That’s right, idiots, stay in your cult. Once you get duped you become branded for life as a stupid cultist, so you may as well stay and fester in the only culture that will ever accept you. Get comfortable licking that boot, because you need community to live and we will never allow you to join ours, so don’t even think about it as an option.

      …sarcasm, obviously. I hope.

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        2 hours ago

        With how badly they’ve all abused all existing social contracts, I can see how some might arrive at the conclusion of refusing to enter into any more with them.

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          I too understand it. I have spent a big part of my life feeling the same way, after I spent the first big part of my life being immersed in the cult and parroting a lot of the same abusive, authoritarian ideas.

          After I got over the collectivized hatred, which included no small amount of self-hatred, I started to get more specific and practical about dismantling the systems that ensnare people in the house of mirrors of learned hatred and distrust. One of the specific practices I find helpful is finding cogs that want to come loose, and helping them come out completely. Other helpful people did that for me, and I try to pay it forward. I think this group is doing something similar.

          I also think that grouping everyone who’s ever been a part of MAGA into the same “categorically irredeemable” group is inaccurate and counterproductive, and it forces people who want to leave to stay in, because they don’t see where else they can go. Cults are fragile, and public ones, like MAGA, cultivate that outside pressure by being heinous on purpose, and on behalf of the group, because it creates a societal debt that its victims feel they can never repay. Once someone becomes convinced that it’s too socially expensive to “come clean”, so to speak, they are trapped. The only way to get them out is to show them that they have somewhere, anywhere, else to go.

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      That’s where, I love leopardsatemyface and I’ll always laugh, but I will genuinely be happy as people leave the culture and mind fog. Its acceptance and openness which will win people back, not demeaning them.

      Do they deserve it? Absolutely, but I keep that at a meta level online. Individually I believe we have to be the bigger person and open our arms

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        I have a VERY hard time with this these people literally want me (a lesbian) to not exist. They have wished me dead so often that honestly I don’t have any empathy for them. Funny how so many of us are exposed to the same propaganda they are but don’t get sucked into the bullshit.

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          That’s why if they’re coming out of the fog we show welcoming, but I also agree there are hard lines. It means you’re giving up that hatred.

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      6 hours ago

      Unfortunately that seems to be the pattern with a lot of beliefs right now, especially ones that the rich have vested interest in ensuring spread.

      AI bros just updated their AI doomsday timeline again, from 2026 to 2030. At some point you’d think they’d see the parallels with the “world is ending on this specific day” cults and the constant timeline shifting.

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        6 hours ago

        As literacy, media literacy, numeracy, critical thinking, attention spans … all broadly worsen…

        … amidst a backdrop of very serious collapse of material conditions on the ground…

        Basically every time in history you get that combo of conditions, humans start making cults.

        Its a kind of sociological coping mechanism, or maybe basically panic/stress response.

        When people don’t have the tools to understand and evaluate reality, but people can very plainly tell tell that things are worsening, life is getting more tenuous… people will irrationally believe in anything that offers at least a real feeling of tribal belonging, identity, and that can also ideally either actually excercise force to secure material needs, or at the very least, make a convincing display that they could if they wanted to.

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        It’s not “right now” it’s always been that way.

        Believing this is a new or temporary thing is wishful thinking.

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    • Cue comments saying how anyone voting for Trump is an unforgivable nazi, and we should strip them of their voting rights, line them up against a wall, and kill more than 100 million people. In the name of tolerance, of course