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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Oct 7
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    Anyone know if QAnon is more GenX or Boomer? Somehow I expect GenX. It seems like a peculiarly X’er way of going crazy, with lots of data.https://twitter.com/laurenpeikoff/status/1313861331695677440 …

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    Lauren PeikoffVerified account @laurenpeikoff
    QAnon is Driving Families Apart | As her mom posts QAnon theories on Facebook, Emily gets texts: “They’re like, ‘I can’t look at your mom’s Facebook.’ And I’m like, ‘I can’t look at my mother’s Facebook.’ I wish my parents had no access to social media.” https://www.teenvogue.com/story/qanon-conspiracy-theories-social-media-teens …
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      2. Lauren Peikoff‏Verified account @laurenpeikoff Oct 7
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        @oneunderscore__ & @BrandyZadrozny can answer that.

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      3. Ben Collins‏Verified account @oneunderscore__ Oct 7
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        Replying to @laurenpeikoff @vgr @BrandyZadrozny

        Round 1 of recruitment was boomers on Facebook and YouTube. Now it's Gen X/millennial suburban/rural moms. The new wave is near-strictly white, largely Christian.

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      2. rafa(él)‏ @rafathebuilder Oct 7
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        My in laws. They’re late boomers / early X (55?)

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      3.  🦝‏ @thrashima Oct 7
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        Agreed. Mostly late boomers Gen X. Early boomers care more about the virus affecting their health than kids

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      1. woody walters‏ @walters_woody Oct 7
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        It’s run by boomers. Supporters in another question. Check out the recent pod from ReplyAll on the topic of unmasking the people who started/run it

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      1. anagogicascent‏ @anagogicascent Oct 7
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        "When you give people too much information, they instantly resort to pattern recognition – in other words, to structuring the experience" -McLuhan 10:12 here: http://www.marshallmcluhanspeaks.com/interview/1968-marshall-mcluhan-in-conversation-with-norman-mailer/index.html …

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      2. AlMcTav‏ @AlMcTav1 Oct 7
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        Boomers and X definitely make up the majority. New agey greens and Christian Right, lots of antivaxxers from both camps too. Same people targeted by Cambridge Analytica

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      3. Tim "I'll have to insist on Dr." Walters‏ @tim_walters Oct 7
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        Do you mean people that Cambridge Analytica sought to spy on/discredit? Or people who were targeted with advertising/messaging based on Cambridge Analytica's (alledged) psychographic profiles? The latter makes a *tiny* bit more sense that the former, but I just want to be clear.

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      1. Song Avram Boriskin O.‏ @butanmist Oct 7
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        Frankly? I feel responisble for some of it. In an argument about Stefen Molyneux(2014), I laid out how he was attempted to create a virtual cult & all the ways he had fucked up. Sadly, the once friend I was talking to, fed my analysis directly to those behind Qanon.

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      2. Shawn W‏ @shawn_dubs Oct 7
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        I can't imagine gen x giving enough fux

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Oct 7
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        You’re imagining a particular urban kind. Remember it’s a full generation. There’s vast numbers of them in conservative Christian red towns. They’re not all cyberpunk heroes in big cities.

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