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Leopards Ate My Face

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[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 11 hours ago

But then you wouldn't have a population of useful idiots, easily manipulated by distinct emotional triggers implanted from an early age.

I feel like a tinfoil hat person typing that, but I've been able to befriend a few former MAGAs and it has been insightful. They have no ideological consistency and no idea what they believe as an individual, just as a member of a group following a father figure. They're starting to learn, though.

What has been most surprising is how incredibly emotionally broken they are. Now that they're opening up, I've never met such sad, scared people before. The entire culture seems purpose built to produce people like these. The US has a lot of generational trauma to unpack if we ever want to improve.