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Do you appreciate #empathy? Could you imagine a #cult that is glorifying the lack of empathy and #compassion? Could you imagine a cult casting empathy as a 'parasitic plague'? This cult exists - in an incredible unholy alliance.
Julie Carrie Wong investigated it and wrote a scary, important, and reveiling #longread about the preachers behind: theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int
via @joolia.bsky.social

The Guardian · Loathe thy neighbor: Elon Musk and the Christian right are waging war on empathyBy Julia Carrie Wong

I was raised in a family of cults called Revival Centres that started in Melbourne and spread around the world. Notorious splinter group Geelong Revival Centre has triggered a state Parliamentary inquiry into cults. I'm interested to see how this goes and hope I can contribute. womensagenda.com.au/latest/coe

Women's Agenda · Coercive control in cults to be examined in Victorian parliamentary inquiryThe Victorian government has announced a parliamentary inquiry into cults and “organised fringe groups” in the state.

youtube.com/watch?v=7EQcqsVwT4

#DaveNeal #TheRushHour

22.30min.mark #KKKarolineLeavitt barking on about how #cult leader the #OrangeFascist considering sending U.S. CITIZENS to #ElSalvadorConcentrationCamp
#FascistUSA

25.40 min. mark Ms. Rachel, who raised money for #SaveTheChildren and prayed for #GazaKids 🇵🇸 , had a baby 🎉 . ' Children should never experience the horrors of war.'
Dave talks about putting the pressure on to stop the violence towards #Palestinians,🇵🇸 Ukrainians 🇺🇦 , Sudanese🇸🇩 🇸🇸 , Israelis ✡️, etc ☮️

'Last November, #Republican Representative Troy Nehls of Texas told reporters that “if Donald #Trump says #tariffs work, tariffs work. Period. Because Donald Trump is really never wrong.” This expression of faith in the great leader is a precept of #MAGA-ism. The pigs in Animal Farm had a similar way of thinking: “Comrade Napoleon is always right.”'

#cult

theatlantic.com/economy/archiv

The Atlantic · Trump World Makes the Case Against TrumpBy Jonathan Chait

The GOP is a death cult.

They will NEVER disown or turn against tRump.

There is ZERO evidence of GOP coming to reason.

ANY and every time someone gives them their 5819327509826529156825605th chance, they prove themselves faithful cultists.

They will go down to the last rubble, wreathed in flames AND DRAG ALL OF US ALONG.

Death cults are called thus for a reason. Stop "reaching across the isle". Stop being STUPID.

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Ooh... it's the Two by Twos. You don't hear much about this creepy cult because they try to keep it that way. They're also referred to as the ‘Church-With-No-Name’. Of course having no name makes them far harder to trace or to investigate.

BBC Radio had an excellent series on the Two by Twos last year.

"Crime Next Door – Servants And Saints "
bbc.com/mediacentre/proginfo/2

@ArrestJK

www.bbc.comCrime Next Door: Servants And Saints
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As I alluded above, I haven't really spent a lot of time talking about Trump's objectively unhinged tariff policies for two primary reasons; first, I'm actually pretty busy writing about the overt Gestapo shit the regime is doing, and second a corporate media complex that is far less interested in properly examining all that Gestapo shit, is singularly obsessed with covering the economic damage caused by Der Führer's tariff regime - likely because this portion of the fascist agenda negatively impacts the type of rich maggots who own and invest in corporate media companies. Unfortunately, these tariffs are also bankrupting a huge portion of the American labor class, and politically speaking this carnage is probably the first time we've seen any of the awful shit Trump is doing actually produce fractures in the cult-like unity of the fascist coalition that brought Trump back to power. Billionaire broligarchs and deluded MAGA rubes who thought massive tariffs and mass deportations would somehow make them rich too, are both, in their own way, offering some degree of pushback against Trump's tariff policies precisely *because* now the fascism is hitting them where it counts (as far as they're concerned) - in the wallet.

In the grand scheme of things, does that actually mean anything? To be honest with you, I'm not sure. The fact is these people are still very much ideologically united around an authoritarian Christian Nationalist agenda, and as long as the Trump regime keeps handing them dopamine hits by "owning the libs" and actively trolling the targets of the regime's cruelty and assault on civil rights, I don't see the coalition breaking any time soon. That having been said, the billionaire broligarchs paid to put Trump into power because they believed it would be profitable for them, and even labor class MAGA rubes have to put food on the table or save for retirement; the material pressure the Trump regime is putting on their own support network is not totally irrelevant, I'm just not sure any of these people are capable of logically connecting their enthusiastic support for white nationalism and the cult of Trump, with the carnage the regime's policies are inflicting on their bottom lines. Only time will tell whether "doing white supremacy" matters more to them than making money, or if the perceived gains (for white nationalists) of Trump's fascist policies will outweigh the measurable financial impact of the regime's economic policies on their lives.

To examine what some of this fascist on fascist (rhetorical) violence looks like, let's flip over to this 15 minute video summary by Mike Figueredo of the Humanist Report; if nothing else, the schadenfreude is delicious.

The Humanist Report: Trump’s Biggest Boosters CRY About Tariffs Costing Them MILLIONS: “Kamala Come Back”

youtube.com/watch?v=2bfEk0Xvw9

"Pro-Trump influencers like Dave Portnoy, Adin Ross, DJ Akademics and Ben Shapiro are now complaining about Trump’s tariffs despite using their massive platforms to boost him before the election. They even joked about wanting Kamala Harris to “come back.” Furthermore, tech CEOs who endorsed Trump—or donated to his inauguration fund—have lost a combined $1.8 trillion in market value due to Trump’s tariffs. Additionally, GameStop’s CEO, Ryan Cohen, promoted Trump endlessly on Twitter before the election, but half-seriously stated that he’s turning into a Democrat due to Trump’s tariffs. But oligarchs and executives aren’t the only ones mad about tariffs; gamers are outraged that pre-orders for the Nintendo Switch 2 have been postponed due to Trump’s tariffs, and some of Trump’s own supporters are horrified after losing thousands of dollars from their retirement funds because of the tariff-induced stock market plunge. In this video we’ll talk about these reactions to Trump’s tariffs."

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I mean it wouldn't be an anti-Musk/Trump protests without fascist propagandists claiming *checks notes* millions of protestors were a paid psy-op (and also, Hamas, apparently.)

motherjones.com/politics/2025/

Elon Musk Says Saturday’s Protesters Were Paid “Puppets.” That’s Not What I Saw.

"Musk chimed in on the same video: “The problem is the puppetmasters, not the puppets, as the latter have no idea why they are even there,” he wrote. “He had to read the paper he was given to understand the sign he was holding,” Musk wrote over a video of a protester explaining what his sign—which said “End the kakistocracy”—meant. Musk also shared several posts from the Wall Street Apes account on X, which has more than 929,000 followers, and right-wing influencer Mario Nawfal, who has more than two million followers, alleging—without evidence—that the protesters were paid.

Conspiracy theorist and journalist cosplayer Laura Loomer also alleged that “the radical left is BUSSING IN PROTESTERS FROM AROUND THE COUNTRY TO CAUSE CHAOS IN WASHINGTON DC” who she claimed were “pro-Hamas,”an apparent reference to the fact that some were holding Palestinian flags and wearing keffiyehs."

Folks, I don't know who needs to hear that it is feasibly impossible for a "puppet master" (man, he even talks like Goebbels) to pay MILLIONS of protestors, but it is. Please keep in mind that when it comes to Musk, who is literally a fucking nazi, this is the same guy who was accusing George Soros of paying hecklers at his Wisconsin Volkish Revival rally while he was dishing out million dollar checks to voters for "signing a petition" in an effort to buy a judicial election. As for Loomer, I'm pretty sure she also thinks her Uber driver and any particularly "swarthy" person she encounters in public spaces is also "Hamas" if her past social media transgressions are any indication.

The bigger picture here is pretty simple; for whatever the Hands Off protests did, didn't, will, or won't accomplish, if these nazi maggots are scared enough to lie about it with poorly-coordinated conspiracy theories to try and explain it away for the cult of Trump, that means *they* certainly noticed millions of people giving up their Saturday to tell Trump and Musk to get in the fucking sea.

Mother JonesElon Musk says Saturday's protesters were "paid puppets." That's not what I saw.Right wingers are trying to discount the mass mobilization the country saw on Saturday.
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@misomunje

well... it was not really necessary to interrogate one AI

it is well documented in history ad it is a normal psicological response

specially in a #cult based on a 'person' as #MAGA is
As much they adore him now they will hate him more then
Trump created millions of adoring fanatic ​​'disciples'
who will become millions of angry fanatics
and they will want their 'pound of flesh'
Not only from Trump but also from politicians who supported him.

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@bascule #Protester's lifeline according Jennifer Shin: "If you're protesting on #Saturday please wear a cap and mask to protect your identity from the #cult.
Also, it was suggested to me that you should write the phone number of the #ACLU #FirstDefenseLegalAid on your arm. That number is 1-800-529-7374 in case anything happens."

+ Also you could/should additionally write a number of a loved one at home or a lawyer you trust on your arm (waterproof ink).

#Protest#maga#usa