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In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: sano ✶✹  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Psychological priming
Date: 03/19/24 11:52 AM
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It really is a cult for a lot of his followers ( not all of them ). Trump lies constantly, and it just does not matter to them.

It's fascinating that it does not matter to them. Sociologists will be batting this around forever, comparing it to other large scale manias.

MAGAs are resolved that it's good to be mean, cruel, lie, and disrupt all social norms while at the same time claiming piety and righteousness.

And now that that has happened, dehumanizing and violence, bloodbath, is an acceptable part of their vocabulary... said laughingly. The fringe of the cult will take it literally, rationalizing that, like a rape victim, "the libs/socialists/trans/communist/atheists/animals brought it on themselves. How? By depriving good guntoting christians of their God given rights to be good guntoting christians who are just trying to save America.

scientificamerican.com - The shared psychosis of donald trump and his loyalists
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