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Why would the USA be a death cult? Hezbollah isn’t a state, so the valid comparison wouldn’t be a nation-state vs. a militant group, but rather a movement vs. a movement. If you really want to draw a comparison, a better question would be: Is MAGA a death cult?

Personally, I think they’re deaf cunts more than anything else—stubborn, loud, and detached from reality. But as far as the core elements of a death cult go—glorification of martyrdom, indoctrination toward self-sacrifice, and an obsession with destruction for ideological reasons—there’s not much to work with. MAGA thrives on delusion and identity politics, but they’re not throwing themselves into suicide missions or sending their kids off to die for a prophecy.

So unless you have specific criteria that would make the comparison valid, the whole premise is just lazy rhetoric.

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