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    1. Ben Collins‏Verified account @oneunderscore__ Jan 17

      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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    2. Ben Collins‏Verified account @oneunderscore__ Jan 17

      Usually they would draw hard lines. A big one was D5, which everyone thought would be mass arrests on December 5th two years ago. Didn't happen, didn't matter. It's about belief, anticipation, an advent calendar. One day soon, their problems would be fixed.

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    3. Ben Collins‏Verified account @oneunderscore__ Jan 17

      I would check in the week after the failed doomsdays. They'd point to a Q post like scripture, and say some ridiculous event proved it was still happening. An earthquake somewhere, a service interruption on GMail. I learned something: these people don't want to be humiliated.

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    4. Ben Collins‏Verified account @oneunderscore__ Jan 17

      So many Q people have staked their entire identities on this. There are no real-life happy endings with QAnon, especially true believers. Just constant embarrassment and almost surgical extrication from friends or family. So they retreat back to Q forums and pray for executions.

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      Ben Collins‏Verified account @oneunderscore__ Jan 17

      There are a lot of QAnon influencers saying the 20th is their last stand, that if Biden is inaugurated they'll admit they've been conned. But they won't. They'll equivocate and buck-pass. They'll find secret patterns in his speech and say he was secretly arrested. It'll continue.

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        2. Ben Collins‏Verified account @oneunderscore__ Jan 17

          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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        3. Ben Collins‏Verified account @oneunderscore__ Jan 17

          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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        1. Andrew T. Lessman‏ @andrew_lessman Jan 17
          Replying to @oneunderscore__

          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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        1. Polly Barrett‏ @pollybarrett Jan 17
          Replying to @oneunderscore__

          Oh. That is a terrible outcome.

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        2. Dora B. H.‏ @rodala0504 Jan 17
          Replying to @oneunderscore__

          What do they actually think will happen to prevent Biden from being sworn in?

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        3. Library Fox, now  📚 🇨🇦 🦊‏ @Coliemta Jan 17
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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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        1. Douglas M. Griffin‏Verified account @DouglasMGriffin Jan 17
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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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        1. #SaveOurDemocracyAndGetYourFlippingShot‏ @cindycrum Jan 17
          Replying to @oneunderscore__

          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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        1. The Nicest Boy on this Website and App‏ @bikivindaloo Jan 17
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          So, like a cult. Well, of course.

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        1. Sammet Smotter‏ @BillRobens Jan 17
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          There's always a new deadline for end-of-worlders.

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