Submitted by MissPiggyOnRollerSkates in chapotraphouse
I have a bunch of right wing family and friends, but haven't encountered any Q Anon posts in the wild . . . yet. Two family friends have started posting conspiracy stuff about Covid and 5G. I confess that I am both sad for their sanity, and a little excited to witness the madness in real life. I'm not a good person :(
Yeah, Q Anon going mainstream is definitely going to give more boomers brainworms. I've already talked to my mom about the madness of Q Anon so she'll be predisposed to consider it insane, and since she's typically more rational than my dad, I rely on on her to keep them both on the saner side of conservatism. Keeping my fingers crossed!
Sorry, there is no saner side to conservatism - the same party that gave us boring, "sane" Eisenhower gave us Nixon, Reagan, and George W. Bush. The Q Anon conspiracy reminds me of the Fundamentalist Christian belief of The Rapture (which is not even in the Bible) as sign of the "imminent return of Christ" which they were hoping was going to happen during the Reagan years, and Fundies were hip deep inside the Reagan administration (alongside the Moonies), and were part of the Bush I and Bush II administrations. The difference is that Q doesn't demand attention through the National Prayer Breakfast, it's all online playing out like a very dumb version of a John Le Carre novel.
You make a good point, but they're my parents and I love them, so I have to cling to something, OK?
That's fine, it's just that bizarro crap flows through conservatism like a river. Today Q, tomorrow secret messages from Jesus as transmitted through wireless routers.
Marjorie Taylor Greene from Georgia is likely to win a congressional seat in November too🙄🙄
I do not understand this 5G nonsense. How do they explain that 1G-4G were fine, but the 5th G?! Oh heavens, that's the bad G, it'll give you double-cancer.
I tried to explain it to my mom since she was telling me about the family friend who's been posting about it, and it basically boiled down to "these people are crazy idk what to tell you." I listened to the TrueAnon episode about it, but it's been a while and I don't really remember the details. I guess I might invest more time if this becomes a thing in my family's social circle.
I guess I might invest more time if this becomes a thing in my family's social circle.
Better to stay completely ignorant of it, and whenever it comes up ask basic question after basic question, like "how is this simultaneously super secret but anyone with an internet connection knows exactly what's going on?" Make them explain it to you. With luck they'll hear how dumb it sounds when you walk through it step by step, at worst case scenario you waste more of their time and none of yours.
Oh, good point. That would certainly keep me from wasting more of my time. Of course, I also enjoy reading about batshit conspiracy theories, so it's not like I wouldn't have a good time . . . I'm not saying that's a good thing.
I could swear there were 3G and 4G conspiracies too.
Q Anon confession. I'm Q, at least until I stop smoking meth.
TELL ME EVERYTHING
Trump is the head of the deep state, his goal is to secure the nation's supply of pigball poop.
-Q
I don't blame the senile boomers falling for this kind of stuff. I blame the nefarious people pushing stupid conspiracy theories to distract from the real problems, like using covid emergency funds to line their own pockets. This reminds me of the "great recession" when people were thrown in the street while the billionaire bankers got bailed out. Boomers fell for the tea party and conspiracies about Obama's birth place.
That's a good point. I think some people are in it just for personal grifting, but I do think there's good reason to believe that conspiracy theories are manufactured, or at least encouraged, by the powers that be to distract from the the fact that the system is just a cash grab.
Like I said elsewhere, I think the expression "antisemitism is the socialism of fools" is a good explanation for most conspiracy theories as well. (And anyway, a lot of conspiracy theories circle back to antisemitism once you dig deep enough.) People see their material conditions, they see what the problems are, but they draw batshit conclusions instead of just following the money back to captialism.
im qanon
Wait, now there's two of you claiming to be Q? Now I don't know what to believe!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA *incoherent sobbing
thedoofwarrior wrote
A number of Q Anoners have recently won big Republican primaries. Most recently Lauren Boebert won the nom for a Republican house seat.
It's all about to get a notch more mainstream. Freaky stuff.