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Cold-Dodger
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Date: February 24, 2021 11:07AM
To talk about Qanon. This one is exciting. I feel like a young atheist at BYUI all over again (uh, in the good ways; there were some good ways).
https://youtu.be/nz5uCaLhVywI’d also like to say, I don’t hate people for how they voted. What I hate is the phenomenon where people fall for the abusive mind control tactics of a malignant narcissist and forbid me from criticizing their faith in him. Donald John Trump is yet another charismatic conartist that my parents have fallen for in totality, in the ways that Trump wanted their minds from the get go, that I’m not allowed to help them out of. That’s what I hate. I don’t care if people still hate liberals at the end of the day if I can at least disabuse them of their most culty bullshit and make them understand someone like me as a human being. If I can make them understand my human motivations for thinking things, that’s at least going to deescalate things before they get to where they were on the sixth of January
The clashes we’ve had (me and my folks particularly) over the last five years were not just differences of political opinion. It was something akin to arguing with the hyper religious and the way the walls go up when the hyper religious feel threatened. That’s different. What happened on the sixth was different from anything that’s ever happened before. The culture and the speeches and the lies and the tweets and the YouTube videos that set the sixth up to happen were different from anything I’ve seen in my lifetime. It wasn’t just a different political ideology . It was the emergence of a new cult. And now the expert on cults has commented. I’m loving this episode.