QAnon Corner -- Where one goes bonkers, we all go bonkers

[Free]

One in four Britons believe in QAnon-linked theories – survey

Significant numbers believe in secret governing elite and that Covid was released on purpose

www.theguardian.com

Well, that's a good sign.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Opinion | I Spoke to a Scholar of Conspiracy Theories and I’m Scared for Us

The big lesson of 2020 is that everything keeps getting more dishonest.

www.nytimes.com

Evernote link because paywall

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Woman protests outside of Texas brewery, accuses it of being ‘Satanic cult’ in viral video

A woman filmed herself protesting outside of a Texas brewery last week over claims that the business is part of a 'Satanic cult.'

www.dailydot.com

I love the irony of her wearing a Motley Crue t-shirt as she films that shit.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Sure here: White Nationalists to Gather in Baltimore for the Ninth Annual H.L. Mencken Club Conference

 

[Arkady Arkright]

Sure here: White Nationalists to Gather in Baltimore for the Ninth Annual H.L. Mencken Club Conference

Be sure to let them know they don't need masks or social distancing...

 

[Innula Zenovka]

But the real question is, should we merge the threads?

Trump Allies Mash Hunter Biden And QAnon Conspiracy Theories Into One Horrible Mess

The out-on-bail former campaign chairman for President Donald Trump, Steve Bannon, teased the coming “storm” gathering around Hunter Biden to...

talkingpointsmemo.com

I would suggest not, since I fear QAnon won't go away after the election, no matter what the outcome.


QAnon look like being the 2020s version of the Tea Party in earlier years.

 

[Free]

I would suggest not, since I fear QAnon won't go away after the election, no matter what the outcome.

It's looking increasingly likely that bonker conspiracies about Biden won't be, either.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

He’s a former QAnon believer. He doesn’t want to tell his story, but thinks it might help.

Evernote link because paywall

Account of how he fell into, and eventually out of, the Q-Anon rabbit hole.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Interesting and sensitive advice on how to react should a friend or family member start believing in QAnon

Opinion | What Do We Do About Q?

The conspiracy theories seem ridiculous, but the consequences are real.

www.nytimes.com

It's a video, so I can't save it to Evernote, so I don't know if it's available to non-subscribers or if they'll put it on youtube. I found it interesting.

 

[Essence Lumin]

Interesting and sensitive advice on how to react should a friend or family member start believing in QAnon

Opinion | What Do We Do About Q?

The conspiracy theories seem ridiculous, but the consequences are real.

www.nytimes.com

It's a video, so I can't save it to Evernote, so I don't know if it's available to non-subscribers or if they'll put it on youtube. I found it interesting.

I can't see the NYT video so don't know if it is the same thing but that filmmaker made this 45 minute video in August.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

QAnon is supposed to be all about protecting kids. Its primary enabler appears to have hosted child porn domains.

Archives document Jim Watkins' links to domains suggestive of underage sexual material.

www.motherjones.com

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

 

[Aribeth Zelin]

So glad my mom avoids both like the plague [but she's Silent not quite boomer], but my cousin..... ugh

 

[Innula Zenovka]

I think I've become far more suspicious of conspiracy theories as I've grown older, not less so, largely because I've seen so many of them fall to bits over the years and because I've more and more come to appreciate how impossible it would be to organise anything on the scale most of them propose.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

I think I've become far more suspicious of conspiracy theories as I've grown older, not less so, largely because I've seen so many of them fall to bits over the years and because I've more and more come to appreciate how impossible it would be to organise anything on the scale most of them propose.

You available as a transplant mum? I have a millennial friend who was just disowned, called a “leftist fascist”, and to never call them until they grow up. (And presumably adore Trump and in doing so love America again.)

 

[Rose Karuna]

You available as a transplant mum? I have a millennial friend who was just disowned, called a “leftist fascist”, and to never call them until they grow up. (And presumably adore Trump and in doing so love America again.)

Send him my way Thanksgiving and Christmas and I'll add him to my brood and make sure he has plenty of cookies and hot chocolate and feels like he has a home.

 

[Cindy Claveau]

You available as a transplant mum? I have a millennial friend who was just disowned, called a “leftist fascist”, and to never call them until they grow up. (And presumably adore Trump and in doing so love America again.)

I have an opening now that I've disowned my right wing brother. We plan cranberries and turkey for Thanksgiving but it will probably just be peanut butter and weed.

 

[Aribeth Zelin]

You available as a transplant mum? I have a millennial friend who was just disowned, called a “leftist fascist”, and to never call them until they grow up. (And presumably adore Trump and in doing so love America again.)

I can't have kids of my own - and sounds like they would fit in really well here.