It was crazy. At this bus stop he was telling me about how a Harvard scientist created the coronavirus for the Chinese army, and how bill gates and soros are fucking us over with 5G, and how chemtrails will make us not be able to grow enough food in 50 years except for the rich. Idk if I'm sheltered and this is a common thing people see but holy shit that was weird. He was a vietnam vet who I guess did not turn out alright
people who are so far down the conspiracy hole are a failure on our part. these people know something is fucked up and are looking for an explanation as to what and why it is, and just never met the right people, fell for the red scare, can't decipher the difference, etc.
a lot of these republicans who are like this are just like slightly dumb but have their hearts in the right place and minds in the wrong place.
we have to find some way to get them here, because this is where they're supposed to be. they think the left is the democratic party. it's like if you had directions to a bar that was really cool, but when you show up it's a buncha libs, cause the cool bar was actually down another block. so you turn around and go as far away as possible, cause your ass fucked up the directions and we didn't have a big fucking sign or something that said "no not that one."
these people know something is fucked up and are looking for an explanation as to what and why it is [...] just like slightly dumb but have their hearts in the right place and minds in the wrong place.
This is undoubtedly true of a lot who do fall into the trap. But there are a LOT of Qanon people who absolutely have a fash agenda that preceded their descent into batshit conspiracy obsession. It's not a coincidence that their collection of delusions are so comorbid with extreme reactionary politics. It's tempting to think of them as mostly misled victims of capitalism and hellworld, but nah, I've never encountered one whose "heart was in the right place" or even in the vicinity of the right place. Again, some of them who might otherwise be decent probably do exist out there, but be careful not to give one of them a pass just because their beliefs resemble those of someone who has a genuine mental illness.
Guy came into my work without a mask, poured a vodka coke out of an ikea bag he was carrying and started rapping about masks being a conspiracy. I know this sounds like a shitpost but it actually happened to me and my boss wouldn't let me save the CCTV.
Anyway that was my first interaction with a Q-Anon type
Guy came into my work without a mask, poured a vodka coke out of an ikea bag he was carrying and started rapping about masks being a conspiracy.
definitely has a seat in the house of reps from some random district in Arkansas
I know this sounds like a shitpost but it actually happened to me and my boss wouldn’t let me save the CCTV.
I hope you informed your boss that he will in fact get the wall.
Sometimes some of my favorite things to think about are how fucked up those Vietnam vets are
Has anyone written up a fun overview of this nonsense? This shit would be so fun if it was a TV show or game or other fictional universe, instead of a thing that real hapless shmucks believe in with real consequences on everyone's lives.
I could totally see a TV show where a liberal, a Q-anon follower, and a socialist meet at a bus stop and go on wacky adventures together. Each episode has them traveling to a new place explaining an issue to people with some call to action, and we can judge who looks the most batshit insane by the end of the episode
of course, the "socialist" that the writing room dreams up would be someone with an AOC poster, and who regularly gets told by the liberal why their ideas will never work.
