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People fight back against the leopards who ate their faces, let's help them (leavingmaga.org)

submitted 2 days ago by stemy@lemmy.ml to c/leopardsatemyface@lemmy.world

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[–] MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Man I'm tired of everyone and everything being blamed except for Trumpers themselves. These people are adults, not children.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You're failing to distinguish between people trying to leave the cult, and people actively participating in it. Thus missing my point entirely.

I have no sympathy for any trump supporters when it blows up in their faces, but if they finally realize they were wrong and decide to try to do better, it doesn't atone for voting for him three times, but it's a start. And if you have any idea how democracies work, you should want resources to be available to them to help them find their way out of the muck and do better. Otherwise you're just kicking them back into it and wondering why trump has so many supporters after they all go back to the cult.

We should seize on any opportunity to deprogram right-wingers. Unless you're an essentialist who believes people can never truly change their opinions and beliefs?

[–] MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Yeah so they can vote for Republicans anyway. No one is forcing them into it. "deprograming" Qanon wasn't turning people into Democrats. Again, these are adults making adult choices for which they are responsible.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 points 23 hours ago

There were stories about people waking up from the Qult, and their recovery process was very much like the process of recovering from any other cult: long and difficult, and impossible without social support.

I never said they aren't responsible for their choices, for fuck's sake. That's the opposite of what I said.

This post is about a website that helps people "leaving maga." What the fuck are you trying to argue, that no one does that and we shouldn't help them? Anyone who leaves maga is a plus, even if they're still responsible for their own voting record.