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wfh@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Because it’s a cult.

Fascism and religion run on the same hardware. The paramount values are obedience to a higher power, and the core belief in the scriptures/propaganda.

This is why centrist politics never work. Why make a step towards them when they will never make a step towards you?

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ickplant@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Anyone who believes in the fairy tale of religion is going to be more susceptible to other lies.

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chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
But that doesn’t explain why some people are way more susceptible to being stuck in a cult than others.

Personally I think it’s genetic. It’s some kind of brain feature that leads to people having beliefs that are extremely hard to change. I say this is a feature, not a defect, because you only have to go back a few hundred years to find a society where not having the right belief system can quickly lead to ostracization and death.

It’s a survival tool that has suddenly found itself in the modern informational environment and it can’t cope. See it in action and it’s incredibly tragic.

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