Forgive me, but I'm reading through r/qanoncasualties, I've been watching the QAnon documentary on HBO, and I've listened to QAnon Anonymous for at least a year. I find the subject totally fascinating. QAnon is like this twisted mirror image of socialism.

Basically it looks like this creepy fucking boomer named Jim Watkins and his weird shitposter son Ron created QAnon to bring more traffic to 8chan, which they own but which has never made any money for them. (I'm far from an expert on QAnon but the documentary makes a compelling case, let's say.)

I've seen the first three episodes of the documentary, where people are starting to literally kill each other over QAnon, and the Watkins' boys just don't fucking care. This may even go beyond CIA-level psychopathy, or is at least at a similar level. Meanwhile, r/qanoncasualties has story after story of friends and relatives losing their fucking minds, their jobs, all their relationships, and often killing themselves because of QAnon. It's just absolutely insane.

I've also spent maybe about two years "studying" (listening to podcasts on) Zizek and started drifting toward Marxism at around the same time a lot of these people were turning to QAnon. I haven't lost any close friends or family because of this, but it's definitely strained some relationships. (All of my close friends and relatives are either liberals, Berners, social democrats, or even beyond.)

When normies or liberals talk to QAnon people, they clearly think that the QAnon people are insane (although to some extent the average American believes in at least some parts of QAnon—including me, if Jeffrey Epstein counts as being part of QAnon, although I can't recall ever hearing a QAnon person mention him).

When normies or liberals talk to Marxists, does the same reaction take place? Do they just deploy horseshoe theory on us? Would they prefer to talk to QAnon folks over Marxists? Do they think that Marxists, who point to systems as the main issue, are really the same as QAnon folks, who blame all the woes of the world on a shadowy cabal of Satanic pedophiles?

To sum up: how do your non-Marxist / non-anarchist friends and family treat you when you talk about politics?

  • poopmaster4lyfe_v2 [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    Where do I start?

    Been called a conspiracy nut and have been compared to QAnonners. Asked them where my conclusions when appealing to inductive evidence when it comes to my hypothesis on imperial meddling is wrong and met with silence. I even appealed to journalists here and actual historical evidence.

    I've been called Peter Pan and been told 'welcome to the real world' for criticizing capitalism. This person just likes getting dunked on for some reason which is really weird because I have facts, figures, etc. lined up and ready for him to google, and he keeps coming back at me with right wing youtubers that I proceed to dunk on.

    Told by English speaking immigrants from the community I belong I'm 'American' and should STFU about what's going on in the mainland from where I was born but not raised.

    I've been blocked by friends for calling out Winston Churchill being a dipshit to India.

    I've been called a Russian bot by a friend for supporting Bernie (who I only reluctantly supported).

    I've probably been accused of being racist or homophobic for not liking Pete or Kamala which is weird if you just look at me in real life. People have looked at me differently since then.

    I've always hated Joe. I've gotten silence when it comes to his treatment of migrant children and his mishandling of the current Dante Wright situation. It's always "wait and we'll get our fight later" and they aren't fighting.

    I just don't any fucks anymore. If people went mask off, then I'll go mask off too. Good thing I'm naturally a loner. I always come back at them with sources from academic journals and I always get silence or some type of deflecting. IDC , I'll dunk on you.