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Lol, I highly doubt people are giving you weird looks because they think you're a Q acolyte. They're much more likely to think you're inconsiderate for volunta

Lol, I highly doubt people are giving you weird looks because they think you're a Q acolyte. They're much more likely to think you're inconsiderate for voluntarily increasing their risk of catching covid. I follow Q for fun, and I barely think about it day to day. The average person probably thinks about Q less than once per week, when someone brings it up in the news.

pwinnski 6y ago
You're likely right about the mask. I would give the guy weird looks because of his lack of consideration for others, not because I fear a crazed killer. That said, your experience with Q is not universal. There are many people who take it much, much more seriously than you do and have alienated friends and family members and lost jobs as a result. And, of course, fired a gun in a pizza shop, shot and killed protestors, etc.
- ianai 6y ago
  The “casual followers” of conspiracy theories aren’t doing anybody any good. They’re just increasing the spread of the disinformation. This stuff needs to be fought, refuted, and relegated to the dustbin of history. “casual following” is the sort of thing that lets this win a place in the core of public discourse and culture.
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  - Jetrel 6y ago
    Something for historical consideration is that - if we just go full Godwin's law here: in Nazi Germany, most citizens were just "casual followers" of anti-semitism. You don't have to be gung ho to let someone ELSE do something horrible. You just have to be just on-board enough to let them sit in the driver's seat.
mistermann 6y ago
> Lol, I highly doubt people are giving you weird looks because they think you're a Q acolyte. If you go into a thread on Reddit where the topic of conversation is related to anti-maskers/lockdowners, not only is there plentiful evidence of people enthusiastically confessing what it is they believe about people who do not wear masks (stated as what these people actually(!) believe, as opposed to an estimate of* what they believe), if one was to compile stats, one would often find that the majority of participants think this way (if you take their words literally - if one asks for confirmation or reasoning, post-hoc rationalization will typically ride to the rescue). The memeplex/matrix that is The Internet seems to be having extremely interesting cognitive effects on broad swaths of the public. And while most people have no problem seeing this behavior in their outgroup (say, conspiracy theorists), awareness of this (mainstream, well studied) cognitive phenomenon* in oneself is extremely rare. As is people who are willing to discuss it from an abstract perspective, using sound logic and epistemology (aka: actual critical thinking).

pwinnski 6y ago

You're likely right about the mask. I would give the guy weird looks because of his lack of consideration for others, not because I fear a crazed killer. That said, your experience with Q is not universal. There are many people who take it much, much more seriously than you do and have alienated friends and family members and lost jobs as a result. And, of course, fired a gun in a pizza shop, shot and killed protestors, etc.

ianai 6y ago
The “casual followers” of conspiracy theories aren’t doing anybody any good. They’re just increasing the spread of the disinformation. This stuff needs to be fought, refuted, and relegated to the dustbin of history. “casual following” is the sort of thing that lets this win a place in the core of public discourse and culture.
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- Jetrel 6y ago
  Something for historical consideration is that - if we just go full Godwin's law here: in Nazi Germany, most citizens were just "casual followers" of anti-semitism. You don't have to be gung ho to let someone ELSE do something horrible. You just have to be just on-board enough to let them sit in the driver's seat.

mistermann 6y ago

> Lol, I highly doubt people are giving you weird looks because they think you're a Q acolyte. If you go into a thread on Reddit where the topic of conversation is related to anti-maskers/lockdowners, not only is there plentiful evidence of people enthusiastically confessing what it is they believe about people who do not wear masks (stated as what these people actually(!) believe, as opposed to an estimate of* what they believe), if one was to compile stats, one would often find that the majority of participants think this way (if you take their words literally - if one asks for confirmation or reasoning, post-hoc rationalization will typically ride to the rescue). The memeplex/matrix that is The Internet seems to be having extremely interesting cognitive effects on broad swaths of the public. And while most people have no problem seeing this behavior in their outgroup (say, conspiracy theorists), awareness of this (mainstream, well studied) cognitive phenomenon* in oneself is extremely rare. As is people who are willing to discuss it from an abstract perspective, using sound logic and epistemology (aka: actual critical thinking).