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AloeVera

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4. Like with any mass psychosis and mass denials, the moment of truth...
Tue Jun 10, 2025, 07:35 PM
Jun 10

Or reckoning... is inevitable. That sort of cognitive dissonance and mental/emotional dissociation can be maintained if you're in the MAGA cult but who would want to be like them, right?

OTOH never underestimate the power and sway of tribalism compounded by decades of indoctrination, national myth-making and demonization and dehumanization of the people who are oppressed and occupied by the country you idolize and think is necessary for your survival. It really isn't easy, but doing the right thing rarely is.

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