LEFTI
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LEFTI
@LEFTIMUSIC
I DJ and make music for the dance floor. Head of @quincyboyrecs + warehouse disco
BROOKLYN, NEW YORK Katılım Eylül 2008
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@joeysofficial Get a switch you can get the emulators for all of that on there through the Nintendo store- they also have gensis available
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The claim that “only MAGA supporters” are in a cult, while being a "leftist" is simply about empathy and caring for others, is a very one-sided take. Political polarization often leads people to see extreme cult-like behavior only in the "other side," but evidence and expert analyses show that elements of cultish dynamics appear across the spectrum—though they manifest differently.
On MAGA/Trump supporters as a "cult" There's substantial discussion, including from scholars and psychologists, about “cult-like” aspects in Trump's base. Key points from analyses:
- Traits like unquestioning loyalty to a charismatic leader (Trump).
- Research, which can align with cult dynamics of stable devotion even amid destabilizing actions.
- Experts note parallels to authoritarian populism: siege mentality, scapegoating, and prioritizing personal loyalty over ideology/policy consistency.
- Some former Republicans and analysts have called it a "cult of personality," with aggression and loyalty tests as core.
However, not all experts agree it's a full "cult" in the religious sense—Harvard researchers and others caution that while Trump holds unusually strong sway, politics shares *some* DNA with cults but isn't identical, and broad-brush labeling lacks rigor. It's more accurate to say the most fervent MAGA subset shows cult-like features, but the broader movement is a coalition with varied motivations.
### On the left/Democrats/"leftists" and cult-like behavior
It's not just empathy—calling the left immune ignores similar accusations leveled at progressive or Democratic hyper-partisanship.
Empathy and caring about others' rights are positive values, not inherently cultish. But when any group demands conformity, punishes deviation, or equates disagreement with moral failure. Bottom line, both sides have blind spots and zealous factions where loyalty overrides evidence or reason. Calling one side uniquely cultish while portraying your own as purely virtuous empathy is itself a common tribal tactic—it reinforces "us good, them delusional/evil." True cults involve total control, isolation, exploitation—neither major U.S. political camp fully matches that clinically, but both have troubling authoritarian/populist/cult-adjacent elements in their extremes.
Empathy isn't a cult, but weaponizing moral superiority to dismiss the other side wholesale can look pretty cult-adjacent too.
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I’m just going to say something to MAGA real quick, and I’m not going to bother arguing with any of you any further. There simply is no point.
I fear that you don’t quite realize what is going on right now because you have a boot shoved so far down your throat that you can’t see what’s literally right in front of you. The government is infringing on your first amendment right, second amendment right, and fourth amendment right. You simply don’t care because you see it happening to people that you don’t like; people that you believe deserve it, and you think that it will never happen to you but you are sadly mistaken.
The government is turning against its citizens and violating the constitution. You are not exempt to that and you will find that out very soon. So, while you may not agree with the people damaging buildings or throwing ice snowballs at Federal agents, or “getting in the way,” you should be on the side of American citizens who are losing their freedoms because that includes YOU wether you believe that or not. The government is not going to spare you because you support them, they don’t know you and they don’t care about you.
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@ViiiAdam @OloCzarny @_GlobeObserver @Marciin12 JJ Abrams daughter who had a couple radio songs over the last 2 years.
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@mistergeezy Putting money down that EriKa KirK shows up on the new MAGA Minaj album. The grift that keeps on giving.
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