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The difference between a con and a cult is that when you debunk a con, the victims get mad at the con artist, but when you debunk a cult, the victims get mad at *you.*

MAGAts look like suckers, but they're in deeper than that. They're cult members. Their very identities require T---p be perfect, so they fully and eagerly inhabit a fantasy world.

We need to get better as a culture at cult-proofing students and cult deprogramming adults.

Aug 4, 2023 at 2:25pmWeb
Show threadHow NOT To Make A MovieAug 4, 2023
@airbagmoments We might have to expand our definition of what constitutes a "cult".
Show threadMushifootAug 4, 2023
@airbagmoments Start with Ginni Thomas.
Show threadAirbag Moments | 45X34 | 🇺🇦Aug 4, 2023
@AdditionalQuench And Amy Culty Barrett!
Show threadA L KatzAug 4, 2023
@airbagmoments Agree. We're going to have to expand our definition of what constitutes a "cult".
Show threadAirbag Moments | 45X34 | 🇺🇦Aug 4, 2023
@Alan I know of at least one leading cult expert who has no problem calling it a cult. He even wrote a book about it. https://www.amazon.com/Cult-Trump-Leading-Explains-President/dp/1982127333
Show threadA L KatzAug 4, 2023
@airbagmoments I wasn't disagreeing at all. I was suggesting that the people who cultified around Trump had already cultified - around their religion.
Show threadAirbag Moments | 45X34 | 🇺🇦Aug 4, 2023

@Alan Ahh. Yes.

Cult: a small, unpopular religion.
Religion: a large, popular cult.

We also need a new definition of "delusion" and "psychosis."

Show threadIan Hecht 🇨🇦Aug 4, 2023
@airbagmoments The problem is, as with many conservative politicians, he offers easy answers to the increasing complexity of life. Cult-proofing people would require that they be willing to accept that modern life is complex and doesn't lend itself to simple answers. I don't know how you make people comfortable with that.
Show threadAirbag Moments | 45X34 | 🇺🇦Aug 4, 2023
@ianhecht It's definitely paddling upstream. It's why Gore's climate chaos film was brilliantly entitled An Inconvenient Truth. But people mostly aren't naturally inclined to learn math, either.
Show threadLambdaDuckAug 5, 2023
@airbagmoments this also shows that very often crypto con victims are actually members of a cryptocurrency cult
Show threadAirbag Moments | 45X34 | 🇺🇦Aug 5, 2023
ls@[email protected] MLM schemes also.
Show threadChristopher SmithAug 5, 2023
@airbagmoments victims of con artists often get mad at debunkers, too. Rather than face the shame of admitting they fell for a con, they'll often go right on falling for it right up until the moment when they're out of money and the con artist disappears.