Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because there is at least one Republican politician who will win a House seat in November and is a firm believer.
Who?
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#52It seems like the media is talking about this more than anyone else at this point. There have literally been over 2000 articles written to debunk this. The content has been banned from reddit, twitter and other platforms. Why is everyone so vigilant to call it "dangerous"? Why not flat earth and chem trails? Why all the attention for this one thing?
From what I understand, the QAnon Conspiracy theory is dangerous partially due to the volume of believers in political offices or coming into political offices. It is not unlike how scientology can often be more dangerous than other cults because scientology consistently targets culturally significant people to join the cult.
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#53What if we thought of QAnon as a political party?
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#54It seems like the media is talking about this more than anyone else at this point. There have literally been over 2000 articles written to debunk this. The content has been banned from reddit, twitter and other platforms. Why is everyone so vigilant to call it "dangerous"? Why not flat earth and chem trails? Why all the attention for this one thing?
I feel like this is all meta-commentary: the more we talk about QAnon (or the other things you list), EVEN TO DEBUNK IT WITH FACTS, the more people believe it. That's too surprising to ignore but too meta to discuss directly. So people write articles about QAnon and leave it their readers to wonder (and read more articles and get them more ad revenue).
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because there is at least one Republican politician who will win a House seat in November and is a firm believer.
Who?
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#56Is it just me, or is there a fair bit of down-voting occurring on pretty rational takes on this thread.
...and the post got flagged!
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#57It seems like the media is talking about this more than anyone else at this point. There have literally been over 2000 articles written to debunk this. The content has been banned from reddit, twitter and other platforms. Why is everyone so vigilant to call it "dangerous"? Why not flat earth and chem trails? Why all the attention for this one thing?
I see multiple posts a day related to QAnon conspiracy theories on FB. Much of it is just stupid, but it also includes anti-mask and anti-vax, which I think is very obviously more harmful right now than almost any other political topic.
I see nothing about flat earth or chem trails.
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#58America is bat-shit crazy.
This is going to get voted down to hell, but I'd like to reply before it does: America really does have a long history of huge numbers of people believing absolutely insane things. QAnon is the new satanic panic. I'd love to know how and why, but I think the answer is probably just religion.
I’ve seen quite a few people connect the rise of “main stream” conspiracy theories in the US to the demise of religion here. I suppose I could see that as a plausible explanation. But why is it that Europe seemed able to move on from religion without turning to conspiracies? Is the answer as simple as Europe reaching the secular “tipping point” before the age of social media?
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because there is at least one Republican politician who will win a House seat in November and is a firm believer.
Who?
Marjorie Taylor Greene
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/511633-trump-cal...
Yes, she only one the Republican primary, but it is very likely she will win the general election.
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#60America is bat-shit crazy.
This is going to get voted down to hell, but I'd like to reply before it does: America really does have a long history of huge numbers of people believing absolutely insane things. QAnon is the new satanic panic. I'd love to know how and why, but I think the answer is probably just religion.
This is a gross oversimplification, but America was founded by wealthy farmers who believed the conspiracy theories of the day that Great Britain wanted to ruin the colonies, when in reality they just wanted them to pay taxes for the expensive wars that happened there. A healthy distrust of all forms of government is basically required to be an American. It's their greatest attribute, but it's also damned the country in numerous ways.