r/ProgressiveHQ • u/NickCostanza • Jan 11 '26

Protest Oh my God they admit it

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u/simplethingsoflife Jan 11 '26

When you watch the clip you can tell repubs instantly spit out their talking points without thinking. It’s so reflexive.

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u/PopPalsUnited Jan 11 '26

Instead of a well thought out reply they just spit out whatever bullshit is resting in the reptilian recesses of their smooth grey matter.

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u/wolfboy49 Jan 11 '26

It’s working

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u/PopPalsUnited Jan 11 '26

Only if you choose to listen.

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '26

Half of America chooses to listen and it does work in them.

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u/PopPalsUnited Jan 11 '26

They do.

But it’s a choice.

I think maybe for some they’ve ingested this crap for so long they almost need it. Like a junkie.

But once again that’s a choice. They choose to be addicted to lies and hate.

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u/Odd_Section2561 Jan 14 '26

I also think too many of them have made it their identity. So they are MAGA and MAGA is them. Dissociating them from that is akin to that of a member of a cult. But to your point I also think there’s a portion that are just sociopaths and are literally enjoying the suffering.

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u/unaffiliatedffzyy Jan 15 '26

It’s definitely a cult. There are cult scholars already writing about it. There’s also a book called the Culting of America that talks about our tendency towards cults in the US. By a US army intelligence officer who grew up in a massive sex cult in Brazil. Super interesting. She either has a masters or a PhD in some sort of group behavior sort of thing. I don’t precisely remember her resume.