| Yes. She would tell you she isn’t but she read and believed all the q things repeated by other outlets. Sadly her DH is an IO. Maybe they never discuss these things? But I read IO types have a tendency to get suspicious and paranoid so maybe it’s a risk of the job. |
Yes one friend from high school cut ties with me for not going along with the crazy conspiracy theories. The only ones I corrected with fact checks were the COVID vax ones and this made her furious - like we are on enemy sides. The family and friends I know who went W all get their info mostly from Face Book and Twitter. I think younger people probably prefer different social media. Not sure Tik Tok and IG are as bad for misinformation |
Q not W but the W could stand for weird conspiracies. |
Unfortunately yes. Ugh, makes me so sad. Most of these people of course were conservative to begin with. But still they have all joined Q do not live in reality... One of the Fed contractors on her website has all her Jan 6th escapaes and it's horrific. Yes reported to FBI. |
She should be fired and not allowed to work for the government. Why was she not prosecuted like so many other insurrectionists? Have wondered about that church as the building reminds me of one I attended as a kid. The irony of for Catholics going full Q after the anti vax stuff - The Pope issued a strong statement pretty early on advising the faithful that they should get vaccinated as a matter of being pro life and saving vulnerable people Close to them from illness and death. |
| 90% are probably conservative or Republican but you get the odd Bernie bro who goes there too because of Trump's "rigged primary" and anti-establishment rhetoric. |
Conservative Republican Catholics hate the current Pope and think they are smarter/more godly than him. Their egos are out of control. |
I don't understand why she has not been picked up. She has been reported a ton of times by different people. She was on Jan 6th and went inside the building. She put photos online with her own defense, It's bizarre, to say the least. Yes, she was fired from her fed job. And another job she got after the feds fired her. She found a job with a company that supports Q out of West VA. I am not sharing too much as she literally has her own website posting what I wrote. The other woman is retired and did not work for the feds. I agree "irony". |
| I know someone from Pennsylvania (family acquaintance) who organized two charter buses to 1/6 |
He is the first Jesuit pope - Jesuit priests tend to be very intellectual and social Justice minded in equal measures … the Pope has good people skills which is refreshing … |
| To me Q seems just like Scientology or any other religion, you’re going to know a few people who get into it. |
Maybe in some ways but in other ways it is very different It started during pandemic when people were isolated and fed on insecurities of people scared by both COVID and new vaccines. Most of the posts were created by a small number of people and they gradually expanded their anti vax propaganda to broader government conspiracy aided by Big Pharma and big Tech theories. Facebook was shown to disproportionately gove platform to Q Anon nonsense though they used other social media platforms as well. They also spread a lot of lies about fact check non profits so that you could never provide them with factual Information they would actually trust |
| Some of these people don't even know they're in it, but they're deep into the echo chamber. |
Q was around before the pandemic https://www.tampabay.com/florida-politics/buzz/2018/08/01/dozens-of-trump-supporters-championed-the-qanon-conspiracy-at-his-tampa-rally-heres-what-you-need-to-know/?outputType=amp But you’re right that it took off like crazy once people were isolated and anxious. I’ve posted here before about my former co-worker/good friend who went completely down this rabbit hole. She was always conservative but not that into politics before. College educated but not an intellectual. |
A lot of those January 6 folks are having/going to have problems with their clearances. |