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'MAGA is a cult': Observers slam Charlie Kirk memorial as 'weird and embarrassing'

www.rawstory.com 'MAGA is a cult': Observers slam Charlie Kirk memorial as 'weird and embarrassing'

Political commentators and analysts on Sunday slammed the MAGA-led memorial service for slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Kirk was killed almost two weeks ago when he was struck by a single bullet while speaking at a Utah university campus, while giving a speech. His death has become a polit...

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What I'm more interested in is how we will rectify and interpret the past 10 years as a country with the objective fact so thoroughly aired out now.
Why in broad daylight are delusional cults rising to power in the nation that once was known to handle cults' dangers quite well without infringing on crucial freedoms such as 1st amendment and etc? How did we lose the way so rapidly immediately after setting a good precedent? Do I dare inquire about the future of such matters, too?
- New and arational beliefs seem to always proliferate at times at times of widespread cultural strain, especially when empires are starting to fall apart. Iconoclasm, the fists of righteous harmony and taiping christianity are the first examples I can think of.
  I suspect it's (at least partly) an inevitable way that societies react to stress or change.
  
  This all seems to check out honestly. I guess I just struggle to believe the lack of resilience that's been demo'd. You are absolutely right though, the collapse is always faster than expected

Was that MAGA rally with FIREWORKS supposed to be Charlie Kirk's "memorial?" The one that ABC wanted to show instead of Kimmel? No wonder Disney was so eager to get back to the bargaining table.

Was it just me or did it seem like his wife was forcing herself to cry a little bit? Or like it was a rehearsal cry or something? It was really fucking off putting, like your husband just got shot in the neck, do you really need to be fake crying during your speech? Idk it seemed really creepy to me.
Like if that’s the way she cries sincerely then that’s also creepy.
- If you're going to do it, no half-measures, do it like a mob of Shi'as self-flagellating, bleeding all over the place and ululating to mourn the martyrdoms of 'Ali and Hussein.
  The fact that the MAGAts aren't doing that is a sign that even they know it's a crock of shit.
  And where are all the claims of miracles being performed in Kirk's name?

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