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    6 days ago

    The MAGA movement definitely plays on and has racist undertones. But everything I’ve said still stands, and you are still only seeing extremes. Maybe the nerve that was hit was you pissing on centuries of psychology about cults and how people like you are as willing as them to burn bridges.

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          Victims of cults initially fall for positive messaging and are slowly tricked into accepting more and more horrible cult programming over time. MAGA started with the horrible cult programming and there was nothing to fall for.

          MAGA is like if Jim Jones started at the step where he was promoting mass suicide.

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            Oh, you started so well now, too. The irony of continuing to call it a cult in the second sentence on the first paragraph while trying to suggest it’s not the same. Just because it was obvious from your life experience doesn’t mean it was like from theirs. It’s also not just positive messaging, people can be brought into a cult for their own particular reason and have a very different perception of what a cult is than other members, sort of like religion.