I have a theory that the QAnon conspiracy doesn't really exist and is just being invented by our media puppetmasters in order to scare us into compliance with their tenebrous master plan
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Seriously though, the Qanon moral panic makes me suspicious. Here's a deadly mind virus that is brainwashing millions, although it's sprawling and incoherent and impossible to succinctly describe. But people who hear of whatever it is are instantly and irretrievably hooked
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Replying to @Pinboard
People said the same things about the tea party. And that worked out just swell and definitely didn’t have any longlasting impacts on our nation or it’s ability to govern itself.
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That's because the same things were true about the Tea Party. It was an inchoate mess that gradually acquired a direction and an ideology.
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Just seems like you’re being dismissive of a potentially dangerous group that is gaining a foothold in much the same way an objectively dangerous group did, under similar conditions, in years past. A group for which people at the time were also dismissive of.
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Maybe I’m expressing myself badly, then. That’s not my intent
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