• Rachel@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 days ago

    It’s really crazy how he is being treated as if he was a high ranking military officer or an elected politician. He was just a hateful guy with a podcast.

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      3 days ago

      This is the face of extremism- falling over each other to be the most subservient and loyal to the cause. It’s groupthink in a nutshell, they egg each other on and compete to be the most extreme because if you don’t shout hard enough then maybe you’re a traitor.

      This is how you get nazis and holocausts.

      • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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        2 days ago

        I was about to post the same thing.

        Its a fucking charade. a desperate downward theatrical spiral to show who can be the most ridiculously “True to the cause” because the person/persons who show the least effort will inevitably become the out group.

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        2 days ago

        It is not just about being a traitor or not. This attempt at declaring this guy a martyr is basically trying to prove you are one step more extreme than him on a meta level so you can absorb his influence and supporters to your being.

    • pressanykeynow@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      He was just a hateful guy with a podcast.

      To be fair, given how Lemmy is filled with posts about this guy he wasn’t “just a guy”. Must be even more scary on more popular platforms. Really, you better stop praising him.