"They don't punish the heretics... "they don't commit acts of violence in the name of their cult"
First of all, cults are not so interested in punishing heretics. They don't make it to that stage typically, so just drop the dogma
Fervent supporters on the other hand have been know to commit acts of violence for their ideology
https://twitter.com/charlesmblow/status/1330559029094047744
Gender parties are violence, guys!
NY Times columnist here, well respected by the Cult of Feelings. Totally logical stuff here.
THE PARTY OF SCIENCE!!!
https://www.healthline.com/health/he...x#types-of-sex
This article on Heathline used to be called, "Do women like sex?", and you can still see that was the original title from the URL above. Then some SJWs complained that the article was only about cisgender women, and that women with penises were left out (as were men with vaginas).
So they changed it.
Guess what it is now?
"Do Vulva Owners like Sex?"
Not cultish at all. Totally normal, logical behavior here.
SCIENCE!!!!
Druff, you claiming that the crazy wokest of the woke left represents all of the left/Democrats (more than half of the country) is like me saying that all people from LA are Jewish LHE pro radio hosts.
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Both are eating their own. The Trump cultists are turning on solidly right-wing Republicans who dare to admit that Trump lost, and government officials doing their jobs and following the law, saying they are deep state traitors and should be killed.
Given that a tiny minority of this summer's protesters engaged in any violence, and that some were provocateurs from the right, it seems about equal. I don't see any leftists planning the violent overthrow of democratically elected governments though, as the Trump cultists are. (Michigan, suggestions of martial law to install Trump, etc.)
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You live in one of the tiny blue dots in a sea of red. You’re an LA dude, thus overly concerned with how the entertainment industry portrays your political side. One of your dupes concerns yourself with Hollywood. This has long been a point of contention with you given where you live.
As I said, take this forum as an example as it’s broad cross section of the country. Who are the nutjobs that think Covid is a hoax, who keep thinking it’s a socialist global agenda, who are angry constantly and spam memes constantly when you don’t agree with them. It’s not left wing people. They’ll argue with you. They won’t spam every thread with the same unimaginative bullshit.
I don’t associate cults with violence. There have been violent cults, but the worlds biggest cults aren’t violent most often. They are generally centered around worshipping a charismatic individual who they follow completely. That’s MAGA. They are often about mind control and money. Anyone who has seen Trumps fundraising material would realize how it preys upon their emotional connection with him to ask for money from people who don’t have it. I can provide examples of a dozen but I’m sure you’ve seen them. That’s pure cult.
Like what about choice center was violent?
It was just whack, and the worlds largest cults are generally that way. They are about constantly changing their personal thoughts to conform with their leader. That’s pure MAGA. Someone like yourself went from a supply side free trade neo-con loving Republican to the polar opposite, because you liked his stance on owning liberals basically. He also gave you tax cuts and some traditional conservative shit, but his views on tariffs and trade are the exact opposite of what you always voted for.
But you’re not a true Trump cult guy. Not fully in.
It’s hard to be isolated from a cult so large that almost half the country joined. So it hasn’t created isolationism, it’s created family problems. I’ve never seen anyone divide families like Trump.
Take split, she said her Thanksgiving was ruined by her younger family members being indoctrinated by liberal schools. Clearly schools are liberal, but I’m sure they were aghast at their old aunt or whatever believing Mike Dewine is a secret socialist globalist working with Bill Gates to take over the world through forced vaccination. They rightfully see her as mentally ill, and that’s completely standard thinking among Trump people. Half a dozen others here have echoed the same ideas. That is more insane than the Choice Center by a mile.
If almost half the country signed up for your same insane cult, no one would be isolated.
You concede Trump acts like a cult leader, but you somehow ignore how insane your fellow Trump voters are. If Micon was following some leader who was saying a bunch of republican governors were working with the Chinese Communists and Hugo Chavez to overthrow the election, you’d make a thread about how he’s lost his mind. A large portion of your party feels this way, yet somehow you don’t find their thoughts crazy.
MAGA is a full on cult.
Cults do other things. They do this which I borrowed.
Information control
They practice deception (by deliberately withholding or distorting information, and/or lying).
They minimize or discourage access to non-cult sources of information (TV, internet, former members, and so on).
They make extensive use of cult-generated information and propaganda (YouTube, newsletters, movies and other media).
Thought control
They require members to internalize the group's doctrine as truth (black-and-white, good vs evil thinking).
Trump does all these things. Constantly telling you what channel you should watch. Controlling what his followers watch. The left does the last one.
MAGA is one giant cult and I refuse to believe you don’t know it down deep, hence this thread, which is projection of the highest order. I don’t view you as part of the cult, just a sympathizer. There is a reason you find yourself the lone Republican arguing against your own here. Because most are full on cult members.
No big-time Trump supporters have turned on me for saying Trump lost. I've tweeted it several times, some have disagreed, but none have gotten hostile with me. You're only seeing the "eating their own" at the actual political level.
The left is different. They are constantly attacking one another and trying to cancel anyone who says something which violates the woke dogma.
What right wing violence has there been this year, aside from a few outliers? Every single major BLM protest had violence, some to an extreme where entire cities were shut down. This wasn't just a few isolated bad actors. Also, the media and left-wing politicians were afraid to shame these criminals, until many weeks later when Biden was finally goaded into it (and even then, he was very gentle with how he put it).
I don't even think Biden was okay with the protests. I just think he was afraid to anger the woke left, so he kept his mouth shut for as long as he could.
I'm not aiming my vitriol at reasonable liberals who just disagree with me politically. That's fine, I'm totally okay with that, and I don't look down on others for having different politics than I do. But what we're seeing from the woke left faction of the Democratic Party (and the spineless people afraid to call them out) is pretty disturbing, and this portion of the party is slowly gaining power, especially culturally.
Obama trying to point out how stupid the slogan "defend the police" is, far left not happy. If he can't get them to listen then no one can.
First off Obama isn’t a leftist. Only to loons. He was the drone guy who governed from the center more often.
Also that he says it, and all of the Dem leadership agree with him, is why the right is a far bigger cult. You have to try to find some rare Republican willing to stand up and disagree when Trump says something idiotic. A Sasse or Romney.
No Dem leadership puts that stuff forward. It’s from fringe figures living in the bluest areas of the country who have no national power.
The leadership at the top of the Republican Party is in lockstep with a cult leader.
Once again, you pointing out Obama said it is evidence of what not a cult it is. I’m taking about the Dem party. Not the leftist weirdos wanting 64 pronouns, yeah they’re a cult, just not an important one at this time.
You old style republicans are going to realize the moment this is over that Trump is your party. People will be primaried or not at his whim. No one will be able to win without his blessing. If you’re an actual Republican, you should be hoping he ages quickly and passes on or goes to jail.
My point is the far left is coming, It's not just the fringe, we're talking congresswomen and other elected officials and they're gaining strength. When Obama left office he had some unheard of approval rating with dems, I believe in the high 90%s. That's shrinking as the fringe gets bigger. I agree with you that the far right grew and came together first but the far left is coming. Both sides are crazy and both sides are bad for the country. We can nitpick what the exact definition of "cult" is but I'm concerned about emotional crazy people unwilling to even talk to someone that has different views then their own. In this case, Obama was just trying to be a voice of reason, far left won't hear it. And it's not like he's saying anything crazy, 5 years ago he wouldn't have received push back from anyone on the left even while police shootings were happening on his watch.
The one difference I do see is that the far right is more aligned (due to Trump) then the far left. Currently, there's several difference factions of the far left that all have a "number #1" concern. Once their "Trump" comes along and unites them they'll be scary. Maybe that's AOC, maybe that's someone we don't know yet.
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