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Hey, at least you got out!
Yeah, glad I came out but I don't regret going down that rabbit hole. It was a very informative experience and made 2016 unsurprising. And it informs me the only way they'll be deprogrammed is if they decide they want to be on their own. No amount of convictions or election losses will convince them otherwise and actually reinforce their narrative that it's them vs a broken system.
The fact that Alex Jones was left alone while saying all of that was itself evidence he was full of shit. That's no longer the case for both Jones and Trump. Same can be said about Hillary, Biden, and son not facing legal "consequences". For them, the lack of charges against any of them is because the system is broken and corrupt, not because there isn't any case against them.
And, of course, it doesn't help that the system is actually broken and corrupt. It's not in the ways they think it is, but that played a big role in my willingness to go down that rabbit hole in the first place. And when I came out, I didn't go back to believing in the world I believed in before I went down. Shit is fucked but MAGA is being manipulated to support making it worse.