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    “I’m still supporting [Trump],” said Sahakyan. “Even though my friends say take the flag down, you’re going through a lot. I’m like no. The flag stands.”

    Even my friends say I’m an idiot. I’m like, no I like being this way.

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      I think this is the smart move. Most Americans have yet to learn how things work in a police state. This guy’s wife got kidnapped by the SS, and you think he should be like, “Fuck Trump!”

      No, man, he is hoping that if he continues to suck the dick they won’t rape, torture, and murder her - and then come for him.

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    said Sahakyan. "I think it will resolve a lot of issues because we’ll know exactly who’s in here for what reasons, even though I miss [my wife] dearly. I think we could have a faster process [where they determine] she’s not a radical, or tied to the crazies, let her out."

    He’s rationalizing what’s happening. They are never letting her out. They are going to take her out of the country and she will never be coming back to the USA again. I wonder if that is what it will take for him to change his opinion.

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      I think you’re right. He’s been conditioned to keep the faith and look past the cult’s obvious failure to keep its promise of protecting him and his; if he only keeps the faith, everything will surely come right. He still believes that surely dear leader would never hurt him. I think his wife getting flown out to Serbia without a trial miiiight just be the wakeup call.

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          At this point, I think it’s pretty safe to call MAGA a religion, specifically an offshot of American Evangelism. I don’t think you can call its faithful Christians anymore, because while they’re happy to borrow all the trappings and symbols of Christianity, every place where Christ and Trump conflict, Trump wins, including who gets to be Godhead. I’m really not exaggerating, I think a lot of people have walked into an entirely new faith without yet realizing it. If you’re looking for a modern anti-christ, it’s hard to do better than Trump.

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            This is 100% correct. Evangelicals Christianity, never a beacon of rationality or clarity of doctrine, has now been fully captured by MAGA. There is no functional difference between Christian Nationalism and Evangelical American Christianity.

            I worry this is only the beginning. I genuinely believe that Evangelicals will also embrace AI and incorporate it into their beliefs somehow. I also believe Trump will be divinized before his term is up - at least within Evangelical Christian Nationalism.

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            Yup and they way they talk—with made up terms and repeating eventually meaningless words like woke and DEI—it’s exactly how cults like Heaven’s Gate, Jim Jomes, and Branch Davidians talked and controlled their followers.

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        With all the rapes happening at the ICE Camps, She may end up pregnant on the inbetween or dead honestly.

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      I’m not a psychologist but I suspect there’s something amiss here.

      Like a lot of these people if he steps back from his loyalty to Trump, he’s kind of admitting that he’s partially responsible for what’s happened.

      Clinging to this shaky narrative of how this is actually a good thing allows him to offload the guilt.

      I think this might be “delusional” in the clinical sense.

      Over time the belief becomes more entrenched. Something like muscle memory but a thought pattern. It will then become the basis for even nuttier thoughts.

      It’s sad for him, it’s sadder for her, it’s even sadder for their kids who might me next. It’s just shit all the way down.

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        I do see a trend with the conservative base here where getting them to admit they are wrong about ANYTHING is like a personal attack and they simply are not equipped with the emotional prowess and maturity needed to learn from it.

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          It’s a core characteristic they’ve learned from HitlerPig, who learned it from his mentor Roy Cohn, who always said that you never admit that you were wrong or were defeated. Always declare victory, and NEVER, EVER apologize.

          HitlerPig lives by that, and his followers have adopted it as well.

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      This is why we all need to talk with our friends, families, and even co-workers to get out and vote. Most voter turnout rates I’ve seen are 60-70%. There has too be more sane people outside of the cult.

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    just like my ex, after I supported her medical school she convinced my to move to the States with my kids, once settled and in school she wrote USCIS to cancel the greencard process behind my back.

    I’m struggling to get my visa now, and probably end up in Alligator Auschwitz.

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        do you need me to give you the full report and documentation? should I give you the police reports about be getting beaten? do you need the screenshots of threats regarding my immigration status?

        it’s a casual conversation online not a fucking trial.

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    Funny how these MAGA cucks hate gay people, but would be the first to hop on Donald’s dick.

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    “She came and kissed the kids and that was it,” said Sahakyan. “That was the last time we saw her.”

    This monster!

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      Note that the cops decided to let her back into her home to say goodbye here. If they didn’t have the Trump flags the last thing they would’ve seen was her being taken down and hog tied in the driveway.

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    That quote he said for justification of them taking his wife has got to be the biggest maga cuck bullshit I have ever read.

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    People being ok with their own lives being uprooted for someone who should mean absolutely nothing to them is insane.