• ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net
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    2 days ago

    Reposting a comment I made on a similar post about the 180 mental gymnastics MAGA are displaying.

    What you’re witnessing here is described in When Prophecy Fails, a study on cults and how they justify continued belief after experiencing events that should disprove their belief.

    Cult members will simply invent new reasons to continue their belief and remove the cognitive dissonance they may feel, which oddly results in a further entrenched belief, instead of a weakened one.

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      2 days ago

      QAnon was a public exhibition of how this happens with MAGAts. I doubt it does but none of this should surprise anyone

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        From the beginning too. remember the deep state bullshit?

        They really believe AOC, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and the like are the deep state not the born rich New York scum bag who literally befriends everyone powerful