More or less what you'd expect from that guy.

  • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    Yeah I ain't a doctor but I really believe there's some kind of pandemic of debilitating schizophrenia in America. Or whichever illness is where people make connections that aren't there. These conspiracy theories are based on the most threadbare associations. Like the shaman guy was talking about people vaguely looking like one another as itself part of a vast conspiracy. They're also obsessed with numbers lining up, dates repeating, people saying certain words that suddenly get imbued with grand symbolic importance.

    It all strikes me as severe illness and we really have a huge mental health crisis if hundreds of thousands of people buy into qanon.

    If anyone here knows more about this kind of mental illness, please let me know or set me straight if I'm saying something ableist

    • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      They’re also obsessed with numbers lining up, dates repeating, people saying certain words that suddenly get imbued with grand symbolic importance.

      Hasn't this shit also just been a part of a certain type of American religiosity for a long time

      • disco [any]
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        3 years ago

        Yes. Its no coincidence that the first and largest Qanon community on Reddit was called “The Great Awakening”

      • Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        The -48 cult in Dallas that was posted about before is a numerology cult, there's been a ton of them through us history.

    • geese_feces [comrade/them, love/loves]
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      3 years ago

      The pandemic of schizophrenia in America is religion. None of this guy's beliefs are any more detached from reality than mainstream christian beliefs are.