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JF's avatar

There is no bottom, I agree.

When I participated in my own experiment, befriending a MAGA, I did a thought experiment about one year in. Could I imagine her hurting me physically? It chilled me to realize I could easily imagine it.

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Jeff the Original's avatar

There are some truly brainwashed souls out there. Their response to a world-wide pandemic was mind boggling and I never in a million years would think a modern society would behave so cravenly in response.

I was an eye witness to the MAGA response on FoxNews. Honestly...it seemed like the pandemic ended up being the catalyst for the final plunge into misinformation on steroids.

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JF's avatar

I just finished an article by Peter Sagal about the cult of Trumpism. He verifies that it checks all the boxes of being a тАЬcultтАЩ. His opinion is that it wonтАЩt break until death intervenes - not TrumpтАЩs death, but the death of those brainwashed souls. Luckily he also included data that MAGAs trend toward the elderly demographic. Tick tock. IтАЩm old too, so I wonder if IтАЩll make it to witness a recovery.

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Jeff the Original's avatar

Yes...it's like the baby boomers ended up being a prime target for this propaganda. I'm a tail ender baby boomer and am extremely disappointed with many of my peers.

In my opinion...some of it is simply laziness. It's just easy to let the Fox hosts do all of the thinking for you...providing your talking points about those evil Dems.

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JF's avatar

Yeah, so much for тАЬflower powerтАЭ and the Summer of Love. It would be interesting to know if thereтАЩs any crossover from people who identified as hippies, and Fox News viewers. Probably not.

I wish there was some way to give Fox viewers a chill pill. Or some weed. Could it be possible theyтАЩre already partaking?

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Peggy Bussell's avatar

This is terrifying.

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JF's avatar

ItтАЩs definitely an outlier, and somewhat illogical, when my self-generated thought experiments surprise me.

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