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I'm hesitant to say this

 because I don't want to sound overly dramatic, but watching your descent and being horrified at what it led to was the impetus for me taking a break from social media. Then, once I was away from it, things came more and more into focus. My addiction was broken.

All I could see when I flipped through all those pics snapped during that insurrection was a people trapped in delusion so deep that not even facts in their faces could break the spell, and it's one of the scariest things I've ever witnessed because such vast Numbers have fallen under it. It's a mass delusion, and once it reaches a critical mass, it appears to those under it that it simply has to be true and real. It's one of those 'all these people can't be wrong' kinds of mindsets. But all those people could definitely be wrong. And ARE wrong this time.

The prickliness and fickleness is a huge clue. Like the way you guys turned on Pence, who's been nothing but loyal for Trump's entire term, even though it must have pained a man like him at times. As soon as he called out the foolishness, you wanted his head. People were literally calling for him to be tracked down and KILLED for speaking against the narrative. Because no chink in the narrative that could threaten to expose it can be tolerated.

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