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What is the most severe case of brainwashing you have seen? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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...whether it was by a cult, by propaganda, by an algorithm, etc...

And did the person ever recover from it?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Can you tell me how to say that differently? If people from America are Americans, people who believe in Catholicism are Catholics, people who believe in MAGA are what exactly? It isn't Republican, because they are a subgroup, like Jacobites. It isn't to dehumanize them, it is just what they would be called from what I would expect.

Maggots has a different spelling, which is what i know you are referring to, but maybe they should have choose a different name/slogan to go under

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Maga is mainstream Republican now