| Yes, a family member. It's really sad. He totally believes so much nonsense and gets mad if I point out how impossible, or absurd some of these things are. |
| Yes. A few family members who have always been R / conservative, not educated past high school. |
Yeh but the Conservative Catholics are all Pope JP2. Our neighborhood church doesn’t even appear to recognize Francis. It’s embarrassing. |
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| Two frimer republican friends and one relative went Q; not very educated and from my home town, they already believed some our there stuff, so it was less surprising. They are the types that would fall for the "perverts operating in a pizza restaurant" type of scam. |
Are you referring to St Raphael’s or another one? |
| I know 2 people who’ve fallen for that madness. One is my mother. She has a personality disorder. She is not educated. She stared with the conspiracy stuff when Obama was in office. The other is a friend I’ve had since I was a child. He’s a smart guy, and I don’t know what happened. Oddly enough, my ex-BIL was into all sorts of conspiracies. When Q came along, he realized it was nuts. He said he doesn’t like being associated with those crazies. He’s still anti-vax, but that’s about as far as it goes. |
DP. It seems like many of the responders are super paranoid about some minuscule fringe group out there. It’s like some of the moms I know, who are terrified a cult will kidnap their daughter when she goes off to college. |
Where is Epstein’s list? I think if they released the names, people would be less, um, paranoid? |
I see it differently. It’s pretty obvious, for instance, the vaccines are not doing the job people were told they’d do, and that they have affected the menstrual systems and caused damage in young males (especially), and that people were lied to about both those things. That’s been documented in the Pfizer papers. People who believed full-on (i.e. didn’t have a healthy dose of skepticism) now feel kind of foolish, so the mind finds a way to protect itself, and part of that is the absolute arrogance you see in this thread. |
Not that “fringe” if many people have a family member or coworker sucked into it. |
What does Epstein have to do with this? |
Epstein’s underage girls and the people on the list who took advantage of them. All the women who came forward about Weinstein. All the child actors, now adult, coming forward about pedophilia in the industry. I don’t think pedophilia on the left is a Q fantasy. |
| When I was a kid the conspiracy theorists were all on the left. Trump has flipped then entire political spectrum. Now it’s the right that is anti war, anti big pharma, pro blue collar. When you add it to the existing anti-taxes and pro Christian .. it is a real growth angle for the cause. |
| In 2020, during covid, I was flipping through shortwave to see if there was any news I could pick up (didn't realize BBC World Service wasn't a thing anymore and most everyone was Internet-based). The only thing I found was weird. Someone was broadcasting on shortwave about secret government facilities with stacks of bodies. At first I thought it was an Orson Wells-type thing like a show. It was clear the guy was reading from a script and trying to act out emotion (from the artificial pauses, etc. to sound broken up about it). But I could see where people who were scared because of covid might think it was real? |