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Cake day: November 24th, 2024

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  • it IS interesting and worth examining. couched in all those moving parts are simultaneous appeals to populism and also disgust for pedophiles. over time those values got overwritten by hero-worship and schadenfreude, but they started somewhere less evil. it’s kind of why I felt deep down like maga people could be saved by degrees if leftists actually wanted to deradicalize the right.

    too late now, the fascism train has no brakes. but there’s something about the human psyche to be studied here.


  • not a whole lot. throughout the course of this MAGA people have actually created some mental tricks for themselves to detach themselves from reality. picture basically the narcissists prayer. if my Dad finds himself surrounded with enough other maga people who are collectively waking up, he will too. but whenever something like this happens, which it has several times, he distances himself from all media to do his praying and reinforce the worldview.

    cards on the table, he’s probably going to throw away the sweater I bought him 😔 in a month he’ll be back to celebrating how great Trump has been for his retirement fund (he hasn’t)