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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

It's not that these people are necessarily dumb it's a kink like any other. They want to keep the thrill of getting off on doing something illegal and socially unacceptable (in the fascist society they support)

[–] [email protected] 89 points 3 months ago

Oh, weird, because their MAGA support is ruining other people's lives as well but it doesn't seem to cross their mind.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 3 months ago

You don't have to be smart to be gay

[–] [email protected] 54 points 3 months ago

"I am one of the good gays. There is no way they are sending me to Daschau."

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Shocked pikachu

[–] [email protected] 139 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I mean, you've got to be stupid to be a MAGA head. But being gay and a MAGA head you need to be terminally dumb. Amazing that such people can breathe without intellectual assistance.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Dumb or horribly self-loathing. Unfortunately, there are plenty parts of America that help instill that feeling.

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 3 months ago

Me as any vulnerable minority supporting Trump's fascist project:

[–] [email protected] 46 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I would never suck a MAGA dick. Enjoy being lonely while your cult worships the orange fascist!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (7 children)

MAGA isn't a cult. Cults are small. MAGA is big enough to be a religion, which is far more dangerous.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Cults are completely different from religion and size is not a defining factor. They're more similar to a con and will sometimes use religion to exert control.

Knitting Cult Lady is great! She has a video outlining 7 defining characteristics of cults but I can't find it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (3 children)

That's a myth perpetuated by Christian mums during the satanic panic. Back in the 60s the hippie movement was in full swing and young people were abandoning Christianity to follow pagan religions like Wicca and Hellenism. Christian pastors felt threatened, so they came up with a conspiracy to take the word cult (which up until then had meant a small religion) and make it a bad word by association with abuse. That's why all the historical examples of cults that predate the 60s have no association with abuse. You take an example like the Cult of Dionysus and there's no pejorative meaning to the word.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Cult is just a word the big congregation uses about the small congregation

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