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Members of Michael Protzman’s conspiracy cult abandoned their families and spent their life savings to follow him to Trump rallies around the country.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cults are nothing new. But the big media outlets aren't helping anything by avoiding using that c-word for this phenomenon. It is undeniably a cult, and it needs to be called that.

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

I mean, hell, we can forget the “c-word” and we still have this huge issue with foreign (and even domestic!) bad actors stirring shit up with disinformation campaigns in our society. When will our government acknowledge it and actually fucking DO something??

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

One can only conclude that they haven't because a significant proportion of the government is just as compromised by it - or finds it useful.