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Still, there really is quite a lot of media attention for some unverified anonymous social media account. ”If we have confidence in our own beliefs, we should

by vnchr 6y ago

Still, there really is quite a lot of media attention for some unverified anonymous social media account. ”If we have confidence in our own beliefs, we should not fear freedom of thought.” (Bill Vaughan) Seems like it’s the sort of thing that would die on its own without validation. Is the attention of news organizations like Der Spiegel providing some kind of validation for the account owner to his followers?

krapp 6y ago
The attention of the President of the United States and his party are providing that validation. Trump has all but explicitly voiced support for QAnon[0,1] and he and his staff retweet their content and use their memes. Various other Republican organizations also appear to be embracing QAnon[2]. The press has to pay attention to QAnon because it is becoming the mainstream doctrine of the political party in control of the world's last superpower. It matters that global economic and military policy is going to be guided by people who believe the world is secretly run by a conspiracy of satanic pedophile leftists and who trust an anonymous 4chan poster to be speaking the word of God. FFS just look at what happened when the neo-cons and Christian Dominionists were in charge. [0]https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/19/us/politics/trump-qanon-conspiracy-theories.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/19/us/politics/trump-qanon-c... [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QAnon#Responses_by_Donald_Trump https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QAnon#Responses_by_Donald_Trum... [2]https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/20/us/politics/qanon-trump-republicans.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/20/us/politics/qanon-trump-r...
me_me_me 6y ago
Looking at it rationally (coldly). You are not trying to convince the cult member they are irrational - this is lost cause at this stage. You are trying to paint a picture to everyone that might be susceptible to falling it in a hope that they will heed your warning. My mum started listening to online masses - she was religious but now she is taking it up a notch but worse. She is subscribed to some fortuneteller/psycic youtuber. And it seems she is starting to take it somewhat seriously. And that concerns me greatly.

by vnchr 6y ago

krapp 6y ago

The attention of the President of the United States and his party are providing that validation. Trump has all but explicitly voiced support for QAnon[0,1] and he and his staff retweet their content and use their memes. Various other Republican organizations also appear to be embracing QAnon[2]. The press has to pay attention to QAnon because it is becoming the mainstream doctrine of the political party in control of the world's last superpower. It matters that global economic and military policy is going to be guided by people who believe the world is secretly run by a conspiracy of satanic pedophile leftists and who trust an anonymous 4chan poster to be speaking the word of God. FFS just look at what happened when the neo-cons and Christian Dominionists were in charge. [0]https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/19/us/politics/trump-qanon-conspiracy-theories.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/19/us/politics/trump-qanon-c... [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QAnon#Responses_by_Donald_Trump https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QAnon#Responses_by_Donald_Trum... [2]https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/20/us/politics/qanon-trump-republicans.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/20/us/politics/qanon-trump-r...

me_me_me 6y ago

Looking at it rationally (coldly). You are not trying to convince the cult member they are irrational - this is lost cause at this stage. You are trying to paint a picture to everyone that might be susceptible to falling it in a hope that they will heed your warning. My mum started listening to online masses - she was religious but now she is taking it up a notch but worse. She is subscribed to some fortuneteller/psycic youtuber. And it seems she is starting to take it somewhat seriously. And that concerns me greatly.