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That fucking wet dream of a text message "presidential alert" is absolutely terrifying.

Jesus. Fucking cultists.

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They have gone round the bend and met themselves coming back the other way.

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absolutely unhingeder?

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As he should be.

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That was the first thing that I thought.

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Entire hospital's worth of cell phones for me. Lower Manhattan, also, too. Good times...

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At least the kitty has a foil hat to protect him from his owner's brainwaves.

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Not just incapable of it. They yearn for someone else to tell them what to do. Cults typically have a lot of small rules of behavior; for example, not using nicknames or owning only purebred pets (yeah, I was exposed to a cult like that in my workplace). Once people obey the small rules they are ready to obey bigger ones.

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Little Orphan Annie?

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Well, tornadoes are storms and that seems to be one of their things.

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There's a long tradition of seeing "meaning" in numbers.https://sites.google.com/si...

I once worked in a corporate department whose manager belonged to a cult. He built himself a little mini-cult on site. They assigned magic meanings to certain numbers, even if the number was just on the side of a house or something.

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I agree with your point, but must disagree with your verb tense. They can't come absolutely unhinged when they already are absolutely unhinged.

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The scary thing is, I'm not sure if this article is satire or not. This country is totally fucked.

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Wanna troll the trolls?Get a meme going that Quanon (it's French and pronounced "kwah-no" with accent on the last syllable) is a thing. It's a vegan salad with aragula, spinach, kale, broccoli, cauliflower, shiitake mushrooms, bok choy and ...

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"Be sure to drink your Ovaltine", to be precise.

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