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This has been my pet theory for a while now that I've seen people start to wake up to lately (perhaps I manifested it). How can one believe any discourse on the
by astrea 6y ago
This has been my pet theory for a while now that I've seen people start to wake up to lately (perhaps I manifested it). How can one believe any discourse on the internet when the other person on the other end could easily be an unsupervised 9-year-old. For this reason, I'm terrified of the fact that Q-Anon has gained any traction at all.
- jessaustin 6y agoI wasn't convinced they had gained any traction, regardless of all the noise, until I saw them holding a "Save Our Children" protest at a local (rural southern Missouri) courthouse. Yikes.
- ryandrake 6y agoWe will almost certainly have one, and possibly multiple QAnon adherents in the US Congress next year [1]. 1: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/09/qanon-republican-party-congress.html https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/09/qanon-republican-par...
- ardy42 6y ago> How can one believe any discourse on the internet when the other person on the other end could easily be an unsupervised 9-year-old. I think you'd be able to spot a 9-year-old attempting to engage in "discourse on the internet." However, I think it's common to engage with people who are in their late teens to early 20s, who are at the point in their lives where their intellectual self-confidence has increased far beyond where their actual understanding is, but they've yet to realize that. They're fluent enough with adult language that they're hard to spot, but they've basically only absorbed one or two big ideas which they mistake for the gospel truth of everything.