I go there thinking, "maybe this article/video will make them finally see the piece of shit they idolised", but no, I get angrier to see how do they twist everything to follow their cult leader
It’s hilarious when they focus on their feelings above all else, because they’re usually the types that would argue that men are better at all kinds of things because they’re “more logical”.
This interaction mirrors one that many, many Americans have almost certainly had when attempting to have any sort of discussion with people who belong to this MAGA cult. Trump and Vance are like grade 7 bullies saying stupid shit to try to provoke some poor soul in their class into saying something that they can claim as an attack and therefore justification for the rest of the class to turn on said poor soul. How do you possibly have any sort of constructive interaction with this sort of ignorance, blind arrogance, and pure malice? It has only been a month or so of this and already America is radically overhauled perhaps for good. If someone wanted to utterly destroy America I can’t imagine a better playbook to follow than the one this regime is leading with. Based on what is happening it is hard not to conclude that these people are agents of Russia. On this very day Hegseth has also dismantled the country’s cyber operations to counter Russian threats. Across the board from dismantling health care to leaving people vulnerable to cyber attacks, from the outside this looks like an attack on America.
It's not so much feeling but more that there are roughly two types of people:
1) Those who judge actions and events by a ethical system they developed for themselves. Such a system needs to be self-consistent and rather stable by default as we humans don't do well with contradictory internal beliefs.
2) Those who judge actions and events by an ethical system developed by their in-group. Such an ethical system is ever-changing though as it is dependant on the whims and changes to the in-group's leaders.
It is left as an exercise to the read to determine which group these conservatives belong to.
Conservatives ~overwhelmingly~ respond to FEELINGS not FACTS and their entire identities are caught up in how they react to what happens.
It's kind of hilarious, in a thus to keep from weeping way, how hard they project all that onto liberals.
(My favourite was the "gender ideology" executive order... does anyone know if it defined "gender ideology" because there is in fact a movement promoting a definition of gender that accords with their ideology in defiance of scientific consensus, and attempting to mandate everyone else to follow it...)
Exactly. There’s still some up, but some of the top voted comments are being removed by mods in record time. It’s shocking for people who are supposedly so obsessed with ‘free speech’.
I done the same - VZ was shouted over and belittled before he could even answer any of Vance’s bullshit questions and yet they think Trump and Vance where disrespected.
Truth is Vance was almost caught out by VZ for making stuff up so they resorted to shouting him down
go there and sort by top and the top post is about the januarary sixth insurrection, and a lot of the comments are about how they no longer like trump. that was 4 years ago, now they are back to worshipping trump because they already forgot.
One of the perverse psychological behaviors of true cults - and this is true cult behavior - is that the more suffering the member endures, the more their belief is reinforced. There will never be a line that Trump crosses that will snap the true believers out of this; by enduring the hardship Trump is inflicting, they are demonstrating their devotion and experiencing a kind of sacrificial euphoria in their virtue.
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u/Noguezio Feb 28 '25 edited Feb 28 '25
I go there thinking, "maybe this article/video will make them finally see the piece of shit they idolised", but no, I get angrier to see how do they twist everything to follow their cult leader