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With governments consistently landing on the wrong side of good, no wonder people seek comfort in things like qanon.
by jgaa 6y ago
With governments consistently landing on the wrong side of good, no wonder people seek comfort in things like qanon.
- sneak 6y agoI don’t think one has anything to do with the other; there have been movements and memes throughout millennia that tell people that they’re on to the righteous truth that nobody else can see but them and their meme-peers. The rapture will be here any day.
- 082349872349872 6y agoObviously it's been, and we've just been left behind. Either that, or the astonishing popularity of goatees means we're in the Star Trek Mirror Universe. More seriously, here's some seventeenth century righteous truth: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23859546 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23859546 What, obscenity, adultery, civil commotion, conspiracy, blasphemy, subversion and lunacy? Burn the Quakers!