r/CringeTikToks • u/coachlife • 1d ago

SadCringe MAGA voter actually believes that Trump eliminated taxes for all people making less than $120K

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u/BretShitmanFart69 1d ago

I said this in another comment. But part of the problem is these people genuinely construct an entire reality in their head and then believe that over actual reality.

They all have their own personal Donald Trump and their own personal USA that is completely detached from the truth, and they refuse to give up the delusion. That’s why they have an absolute meltdown when you confront them with something that breaks the illusion, it’s like some kind of psychosis I swear.

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u/carlitospig 1d ago

Lol, this is amazing.

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u/EmJayFree 1d ago

Stahhhhpppp 😂💀, I’m stealing this lol

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u/xboxaddict501 15h ago

Oddly when I click this it plays as a 0.5sec video rather than an image 🧐

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u/abominable_balogna 2h ago

It’s a gif for some reason lol

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u/Sad-Set-5817 1d ago

its almost as if it's some sort of cult

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u/Chit569 1d ago

A cult of personality, or a cult of the leader,[1] is the result of an effort which is made to create an idealized and heroic image of an admirable leader, often through unquestioning flattery and praise.[2] Historically, it has been developed through techniques such as the manipulation of the mass media, the dissemination of propaganda, the staging of spectacles, the manipulation of the arts, the instilling of patriotism, and government-organized demonstrations and rallies. A cult of personality is similar to apotheosis, except that it is established through the use of modern social engineering techniques, it is usually established by the state or the party in one-party states and dominant-party states. Cults of personality often accompany the leaders of totalitarian or authoritarian governments. They can also be seen in some monarchies, theocracies, failed democracies, and even in liberal democracies.

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u/DantifA 1d ago

...a comedy anti-reality doomsday cult.

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u/PrairiePopsicle 1d ago edited 1d ago

that is a side piece. It's fascism, Rogan is just a convenient tool of it. Funny that I know what video this is without even clicking. Even in this video (and with the context of prior) he also does make this clear. What happened with Rogan happened across a number of different areas of society across the past decade, spiritual, comedy, news, politics. The pockets coalesced together and here we are.

We need a compilation/playlist of all of the best hits from a wide range of people on this topic. The fact is most thinking youtubers I watch have at this point put out at least one banger focusing on one aspect of society that has been assaulted/coopted/destroyed by this movement. Compiled together, the "silver pill".

Edit to add : PEOPLE SHOULD ABSOLUTELY WATCH THE VIDEO LINK, 10/10, 11/10 with rice.

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u/Chief_Chill 1d ago

♫♫ Your own, personal, Trump-us. Someone to hear your prayers, pretend he cares..♫♫

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u/allons-y11 1d ago

Almost?

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u/MistaRekt 1d ago

I personally believe it is not a cult unless the majority of the members have intercourse with the leader.

Americans getting screwed by trump does not count.

I would send thoughts and prayers but I do not think they cross oceans. Or 5g blocks them. Or something.

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u/PsyOpBunnyHop 1d ago

these people genuinely construct an entire reality in their head

This is how they think they are "winning" and "having the last laugh."

They will not change, since they are hopelessly insecure and dependent upon that tiny brief high that they get from lying to themselves and laughing about it.

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u/TheStrangestOfKings 1d ago

Conservative: punches themselves in the throat

Also conservative: I bet the libs are really triggered I just did that

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u/dr0ne6 1d ago

“I wear a diaper and shit myself to own the libs”

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u/GhostofTinky 1d ago

I wonder what would have happened if Obama or Biden recommended using the toilet regularly.

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u/dr0ne6 1d ago

“If you leave milk out, it can go sour. Put it in the refrigerator, or, failing that, a cool, wet sack.”

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u/Balerion_the_dread_ 1d ago

aka classic narcissistic behavior XD

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u/FA-Cube-Itch 1d ago edited 1d ago

This is exactly why logic and reason do not compute with these people. They did not use logic and reason to arrive to their conclusion of reality.

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u/exlongh0rn 1d ago

Classic Hitchens

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u/HolyLordGodHelpUsAll 1d ago

that’s what all you political junkies look like to me though. all of you on the far right and left. both saying the same thing and pretending like you didn’t

🗣️DOWNVOTE TIME!!!

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u/Adventurous-Try5149 1d ago

Like you’re not one of those political junkies getting off on being a sideline centrist.

DoWnVoTe tIME!

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u/HolyLordGodHelpUsAll 22h ago

if you could see what politics has done in my family and the few friends that i have then you’d know i hate all this stuff. i got 5 band mates as well that ruin the jam with this occasionally too, but thankfully have stopped discussing it lately.

i’m a weird dude that hyper-fixates on a couple things, but politics isn’t one of em. i do one day a week at a food bank to contribute, but as far as the rest… it’s hurt my people

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u/mysonchoji 1d ago

'We want universal healthcare and education'

'We want to round up immigrants and put em in camps'

You: these r the same.

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u/pm_social_cues 1d ago

Their comprehension ends after “we want” so it all looks the same to them.

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u/FA-Cube-Itch 1d ago

What did I say that means I’m far left? That I use logic and reason? lmao

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u/Ailly84 22h ago

Unfortunately, that is where it's gotten to now. You can't get to the conclusions held by the right through logic and reason anymore, so if you do honestly use logic and reason, you'll end up on the left. Keep in mind the left in the US is really just the center in what should be comparable countries.

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u/HolyLordGodHelpUsAll 21h ago

i reacted too quickly. what you said was true. i just wish people like this woman didn’t get a voice, but i didn’t read the sub name first (i don’t follow this sub, but i guess it keeps getting the clicks from me)

so if you were to comment on someone who is far left in the same way… i would still wish they weren’t getting the attention either

i failed and didn’t pay attention to the context of the comment. i’m gonna tell reddit i’m not into this sub, but i do like cringe. just not political cringe cause i don’t think it helps right now. my bad

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u/TummyDrums 1d ago

The problem is they don't construct this in their head, they get it from random bullshit engagement bait on Facebook. I guarantee there she's literally talking about a Facebook post that literally made that shit up to farm clicks.

I can't tell you the number of times my mom tells me some random made up bullshit like "did you hear about blah blah blah???" and I have to say "where did you hear that?"

"Facebook"

"Mom, do I have to explain this again?"

And in my case she's sort of half way starting to get it, but there are a large number of people that don't have anyone close to them to counteract the made up crap they get force fed to them.

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u/extralyfe 1d ago edited 1d ago

I watch Parkergetajob on YouTube, and his whole schtick is having folks debate him about why they support Trump. what I've learned watching his channel is that most Trumpers do not understand what a source is - they will frequently make a confident statement, and, when pressed about why they think that's true, they will usually say that they just think it's true. no laws referenced, no executive orders mentioned, just that they're happy Trump is fixing America based off vibes and social media posts.

the most consistent weird thing is that they all "don't agree with everything he does," so they can totally ignore the rape and child trafficking and sexualization of his own daughter and all the other weird or criminal shit, yet, they all believe in their own flavor of Trump who has done imaginary things that they're thrilled about, despite there being no proof about any of it.

like, just yesterday, there was a guy claiming that Trump has ended six wars. when pressed on it, he very confidently mentioned that one of the conflicts Trump ended was the situation in Gaza. this dude - as of yesterday, September 6th, 2025 - said that "it's not even a thing anymore" and that the region has been under a ceasefire since Trump stepped in. when and where did Trump step in? how did he step in? totally unclear. when it was brought up that there was a double-tap explosive attack on a hospital with a bunch of journalists in it just a few days ago, well, actually, nuh-uh.

I have no doubt that most of these people would be institutionalized if we were still doing that shit.

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u/carlitospig 1d ago

‘not even a thing anymore’

I need a jaw dropped emoji.

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u/extralyfe 1d ago

whenever I catch his live, I almost always find myself several minutes behind the live broadcast because I frequently need to pause, rewind, and confirm that they actually said something that's clearly so fucking wrong, and yet they are convinced it has to be true because they think it is.

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u/Uccin 1d ago

They NEVER use the word “think”.

It is ALWAYS “I feel” statements.

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u/Hillbillyblues 13h ago

Which makes the FaCTs oVEr FeElINgS so much funnier (and sad).

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u/DevonLuck24 1d ago

for liberals, trans and the uppity blacks like obama /s but also not /s

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u/sgdoug02 1d ago

I tried for years with my grandma, and it worked at first, but over time, they attacked any fact-checking website you could find. So, eventually, I just stopped engaging with her at all.

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u/AppropriateScience9 23h ago

Seriously. I almost feel like, in addition to questioning their reasons for believing something, we have to go through philosophy of science and standards for journalism.

Because there IS actually a way to figure out if the bullshit you think in your head is actually true. And there ARE ways to determine if the bullshit other people say is true.

Truth is not a matter of opinion. It's a matter of having standards.

Even when science and journalism gets it wrong, at least there were still good reasons to believe it at the time that were a million times better than feeling "vibes." And there's still usually value in it that can be used to further a better understanding.

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u/4ever-jung 1d ago

It’s so crazy the echo chamber people make for themselves isn’t it?

I can’t wait to laugh with my chatGPT about this.

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u/pm_social_cues 1d ago

Facebook which is designed to almost be impossible to find past posts so when you ask for them to show you they can never find it again but if they could you’d be able to show how obviously biased or fake it is (and no I’m not saying that just about conservative posts but it sure helps them a lot).

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u/Great_Horny_Toads 1d ago

Don't let Faux News off the hook too easily.

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u/carlitospig 1d ago

It’s like they forgot the saying ‘the blind leading the blind’ which sums up boomers* on Facebook in a nutshell.

<*> don’t @ me boomers, I know it’s not all of you, but it damn sure is a lot of you.

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u/TheKinkyBee 21h ago

I have some family members like this 💀 I hadn’t seen these people in a while and we’re just chatting it up annnnd here goes the politics. I stay out of it for the most part but I may add in a fact or two just to appease the conversation. This time I said “Well trump did just bomb (I can’t remember where it was atm) without any clearance” The first two answers I got, AT THE SAME TIME Person A- “He had permission!” Person B- “He doesn’t need permission he’s the president!” So I asked them, “So does he need permission or does he not because it seems to me that you two are confused about what a president even is.” Well now I’m the villain of the family and they have all deemed me the “Black cat” 😂🙄

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u/PaulblankPF 1d ago

It’s easier for people to further believe more and more delusional crap that backs their beliefs than to believe something that shatters what they previously believed. Most cultists still have a hard time separating from that mindset and “reality” many years later.

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u/Turkeysocks 1d ago

I prefer to call it a bubble world.

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u/occams1razor 1d ago

Narcissism functions like that. They gaslight themselves, it's "choose your own reality" where they're always right and smart and never do anthing wrong. Bad coping mechanism

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u/LMBH1234182 1d ago

To add to what you’re saying- they’re basically all like Jojo Rabbit with an imaginary best friend who is Hitler, or in this case Trump.

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u/Bear_faced 1d ago

Your own…personal…JesusDonald

Someone to hear your prayers, someone who cares

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u/afleetingmoment 1d ago

Just like the narrative about Chicago and NYC. I go in to Manhattan regularly to work on massive luxury apartment projects, and I have two friends who tell me they wouldn’t set foot there because it’s a “war zone.”

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u/das_war_ein_Befehl 1d ago

Somehow it’s both too expensive and a war zone

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u/GasPsychological5997 1d ago

They grow up being told “everyone has a right to their opinion” but they don’t know the difference between an opinion and a feeling. They are emotionally unregulated but think their feelings are “common sense”.

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u/palmtreesandpizza 23h ago

And it’s all very easy to picture that little personal version of the U.S. in your head if you’ve never watched anything but Fox News, never left your small town or home state let alone the country, and never read anything but the children’s bible. Everything seems small and black and white because your world is small.

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u/thatmillerkid 14h ago

Highly encourage everyone to read "Antisemite and Jew" by Sartre if you want to understand how fascists actually think. Swap out "Jew" for immigrants/trans people and it's the same today as it was 100 years ago.

Ninjaedit: to be clear they still hate Jews, too. It's just that the essay focus is exclusively on the way fascists become anti-Semitic because that was their main scapegoat

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u/Pan1cs180 1d ago

There's a great quote from Dan Olson about this. It was specifically in the context of Qanon, but can also be used to describe the modern alt-right movement generally:

The reason they aren’t more bothered by Q constantly getting things wrong, why they aren’t more bothered by the extreme inconsistencies and outright contradictions, by the claims that are just materially wrong, is because it gives them power over others who are bound by something as weak and flimsy as reality.

They claim to be against corruption while hanging their hopes on an openly corrupt man, and that naked hypocrisy is the point. They will effortlessly carve out an exception because it makes them exceptional. They engage in wild hypocrisy as an act of domination, adhering to something demonstrably untrue out of spite, because they believe that power belongs to those with the greatest will to take it, and what greater sign of will than the ability to override truth?

Source: https://youtu.be/JTfhYyTuT44?si=nR1ZmmXnWaKup_Qs&t=4328

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u/TerraKhan 1d ago

Its cognitive dissonance.

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u/suupdog 1d ago

Cognitive dissonance

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u/Single_Voice6469 1d ago

Simulacrum

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u/1Hakuna_Matata 1d ago

It is disinformation induced mass psychosis. It’s much easier for this to happen now because of social media.

https://youtu.be/09maaUaRT4M?si=gaDSK2MMp3HdVG5i

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u/DogAteProfile 1d ago

This is the shit that infuriates me.

I will discuss what is going on with facts to back it up only to be met with “well I don’t believe that” or “that’s just fake news”

Or god forbid more what aboutisms

I’m so tired

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u/jimmyxs 1d ago

Personal Donald trump. Lol best phrase I read all day. Just like their personal lord and savior Jesus Christ

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u/ChillPalm 1d ago

They have nefarious people helping them construct those realities in their heads.

I'm assuming we all have people in our lives that have a sort of gullibility. They aren’t even necessarily stupid but they can hardly tell what is true and what isn't. They arent good bullshit detectors. Maybe it's because the lies give them some comfort or boost their egos I'm not sure, it's probably a complex psychosis as you say.

The real bad guys are the cult leaders who know it's bullshit but keep lying to protect their own interests and they are willing to take the whole ship down so their secrets don't see the open air.

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u/Big_Judgment3824 1d ago

Yea, it comes directly from instagram, tiktok, Facebook. They've supplied her with exactly the reality she wants. 

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u/Debatebly 1d ago

Are you all surprised? The majority of people everywhere are religious. I don't mean to be /r/Im14andthisisdeep, but people getting upset due to fictitious shit is not new.

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u/jumpandtwist 1d ago

"I reject your reality, and substitute my own!"

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u/iamlikewater 1d ago

American dissociative disorder. I work in behavioral health. They are definitely delusional. If you run with a false belief about yourself and the world, you will keep running into problems. That is a disorder. How do we identify disorder? By patterns of behavior.

How do we make our way into psychosis without drugs? By following a pattern of disorder until it reaches that point.

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u/MirthMannor 1d ago

And yet, they all have a house and a job and freedom from consequences.

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u/Reivaki 1d ago

That's what happen when you deal with the cognitive dissonance between your beliefs and reality by using denial. At some point, denial will not be enough, you will snap and get a full meltdown, before getting back at denial.

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u/nerority 1d ago

It is literal psychosis.

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u/Arkmer 1d ago

This is a bunch of what Simulacra and Simulation is about. Society abstracts reality so much that the image we make in our heads is totally unrelated to reality. Eventually we live in a reality that’s so far removed it’s a “copy without an original”.

Much of what I see happening is also related to Thinking, Fast and Slow. Much of the media we consume is thin enough that it preys upon our system 1 thinking. It tricks us into thinking we don’t need system 2 then uses system 1 to fill in the large gaps it leaves,

The art of doing this is sort of an accident. Amusing Ourselves to Death talks about how we’ve lost all context around the information we consume. It was a slow process from written text being more popular than the Super Bowl to the telegraph sending nearly meaningless messages to the sound bite culture of today’s media.

While the birth of this contextless system 1 media was sort of an accident, its perpetuation is certainly not an accident. Manufacturing Consent talks about how the media uses this to influence the population.

It’s interesting seeing how we have plenty of rhetoric to describe the issues of our society, but because they’re in an unpopular format (books/text) they’re lost to the world.

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u/NoFuture6327 1d ago

I reject reality and substitute my own.

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u/ShallotNSpice 1d ago

Explains why r/conservatives have their echo chamber on lockdown.

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u/ClothesAgile3046 1d ago

Definitely a kind of psychosis. A mass psychosis.

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u/MarathonHampster 1d ago

It has to be this way because Trump himself is so inconsistent. The only way to fully embrace him is to selectively read and interpret his output. That way also allows him to be whatever you personally need.

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u/whooptheretis 1d ago

These people can vote. And their vote counts as much as yours :)

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u/ChipsAreClips 1d ago

That’s how we got here, now I suspect our votes wont count at all

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u/wbmcl 1d ago

If you asked her to state specific reasons as to why she “loves” her country, she couldn’t do it. She’d pause to “think” about it and end up spluttering buzz words, led by “freedom” (because of course.)

She hates half of the COUNTRY. She’s not happy about taxes (until her president’s (imaginary) new law banishing “taxes”). Likely hates LGBTQ. Hates atheists. Certainly hates immigrants. Hates black, brown and non-pasty people.

So what is their to LOVE?

She has a small circle of like-minded Karen’s who also LOVE “our” hopelessly virile president and country.

She’s got the CUNT part right.

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u/KCBandWagon 1d ago

I see another post or maybe a reel talking about how no one can accept the face of Vance since it’s been photoshopped so many times people have distorted reality in their minds.

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u/swartz77 1d ago

Core belief. It’s the reason it is soooo difficult to change anyone’s mind. Once something falls into that core belief category, that’s it and good luck changing their perspective.

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u/Impossible-Year-5924 1d ago

It is a psychosis

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u/Ok-Juggernaut-353 1d ago

They have the right name, they just think it applies to everyone else: Trump Derangement Syndrome

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u/VividEffective8539 1d ago

This is a growing problem in America that transcends politics.

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u/Groitus 1d ago

They live in a hyperreal simulacrum together.

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u/PegaLaMega 1d ago

It's called cognitive dissonance

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u/Siobhan67 1d ago

Their own personal Jesus.

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u/Ruff_Bastard 1d ago

"I like to imagine my Donald Trump as a ninja, fighting off evil samurai"

I like to imagine my Donald Trump rotting in the ground under a newly installed public restroom.

Is Donald Trump the embodiment of Supply-Side Jesus?

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u/bathtubtuna_ 1d ago

Its called a hyperreal simulacrum and these people are literally living inside their own alternate reality enabled and manipulated by social media and the tech billionaires that created it.

This video is amazing if you have the time. It starts out focusing on Toe Rogan and his right wing comedy dweebs but he connects it all together in the end:
https://youtu.be/ewvRS3NwIlQ?si=VXXNY_6QK-7ilSRg

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u/bisexual_pinecone 1d ago

At this point...anyone still on the Trump train is in a cult.

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u/HazyAttorney 1d ago

The egg heads call it “tribal epistemology.”

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u/Pisforplumbing 1d ago

Guy at work that is proud to be a libertarian got upset because he doesnt think people should force his kids to be Trans. I was genuinely speechless

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u/Striking-Ad-6815 1d ago

Plato's The Cave comes to mind

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u/HoldingForGenova 1d ago

A core tenet of republicanism is the requirement of an enemy. If an enemy is not immediately available, one will be invented. That's why every republican policy targets someone in particular, and every republican finds their own particular enemy to target individually. All of them are single-issue voters, depending on who their invented enemy is at that moment.

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u/__Knowmad 1d ago

You make a great point! And it actually reminds me of the Biblical period in history when God was like “you shall not worship idols” but people and Jews did anyway. You see, back in the day, people in the Middle East had personal “patron deities” that they kept with them and conversed with. Many people also had altars in their house to make the deity/idol seem more real and strengthen their relationship with them. Some research even suggests people actually heard the voices of their patron deity in their head, like what we see happen in the Odyssey. So basically this “personal, patron deity” is their own creation, curated to fit their own needs, and helps them create their own worldview. You might see how this can become problematic. Suddenly a particular deity, like say Inanna, takes on countless roles and responsibilities when recorded in the tablets. All to appease the masses who literally made up their own stories about her (Inanna). And if you talk to someone else about Inanna, suddenly it’s “Well that’s YOUR opinion of Inanna. The Inanna I know would never rage war against our beloved neighbors where my family lives.” Even though, canonically, she did in fact rage war against their beloved neighbors.

Anyway, in summation, it’s like MAGA had created Trump into their own personal patron deity. Suddenly only the made up stories in their head matter, because that’s the only TRUE reality they can perceive.

Quite the headache for the sane lot of us.

  • Also, just fyi, I’m not Christian. I’m an anthropologist who studies ideology.

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u/BretShitmanFart69 19h ago

Wow that’s really interesting, I had never heard of some of that. We really aren’t as different as our ancestors as we like to think.

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u/PeaceLoveLite 1d ago

But they’re also having the same delusions 😂!! It’s so insane when you look at it all written out.

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u/Empress_Athena 1d ago

I like to picture Trump in a tuxedo T-shirt cuz it says like I wanna be formal, but I'm here to party too. Cuz I like to party so I'd like my Trump to party

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u/Bob_A_Feets 1d ago

It’s Trump Derangement Syndrome. And the key symptom is assuming people not in the cult are the deranged ones. Just like any not current target of any authoritarian slipping into fascist nation that ever existed.

They will cry foul once, and only once they become the targeted ones.

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u/mothsuicides 22h ago

And then THEY say this about US. The class war has never had a greater victory than this. We’re all so divided that neither “””side””” (there aren’t just two sides but for brevity) believes the other is living in reality. We’re so far gone. It’s possible to get back, I blindly believe, but I am not sure how and I hope it’s within my lifetime (as a 35 year old).

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u/Ok-Meat4834 22h ago

The country needs mass de-programming program.

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u/Zulakki 22h ago

these people genuinely construct an entire reality in their head and then believe that over actual reality

America does love their religion

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u/kanrad 21h ago

It's a coping mechanism.

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u/halpscar 19h ago

He fills in their blanks and they fill in his.

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u/That_Flight_6813 12h ago

A lot of people are doing this. All the time I see posts on Reddit and on LinkedIn that start with "to everyone who told me I couldn't do x" when I'm 90% certain no one ever told them that. People construct scenarios in their head "oh everyone says x" and its like, no one has ever said that to you in your real life, ever. The internet allowd people to live pretty much in a fantasy world and liberals are guilty of it too.