Over the last few years, I kept in touch with some QAnon supporters through DMs, checking in on them to see if they'd ever come out of it when their next doomsday came and went. They'd typically first message me calling me a Satanic pedophile. I'd ignore it and ask questions.
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QAnon is a deeply pathetic and embarrassing thing to believe. For believers, there is safety from that embarrassment in increasingly volatile and toxic online communities. Getting people out of it safely is going to be very hard, but important.
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I'd reach back out to some of those Q people, but they're banned from this site now. They grew to like me. I wasn't a Satanic, blood-drinking pedophile, but I was covering for them, they thought, and they wanted to save me. Because, remember, they think they're the good guys.
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New heroes and villains will emerge, and they will continue to grift. Sad. Wonder if law enforcement attention will eventually persuade the biggest purveyors to reconsider.
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Oh. That is a terrible outcome.
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What do they actually think will happen to prevent Biden from being sworn in?
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A lot of them believe Biden will be arrested for his perceived crimes. Remember, the end result of Trump and Qs long game is the mass arrests/military tribunals/executions of the "enemies of the people."
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The problem with Social Media is that it makes it a lot harder for errant beliefs to just fade into the past.
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They are batshit crazy. God bless you for your hard work. I don’t know how you do it and stay sane. Or drink to excess.
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So, like a cult. Well, of course.
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There's always a new deadline for end-of-worlders.
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