I see that Crazy Jesus’ movie had been promoted pretty heavily by Ben Shapeño’s Daily Wire and I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if Ben Shabibo’s sugar daddies The Wilks Brothers bought all the tickets for entire screenings in an attempt to astroturf QAnon and make it more acceptable to the mainstream audiences.
I read an article that says they are allowing people “to buy tickets for strangers” they are calling it pay it forward and allowing people to redeem tickets bought by others. Churches seem to be doing that a lot.
Anecdotally Sound of freedom is doing a great job of recruiting social media unawares boomers on my Facebook feed
The Facebook post that has all the crazy Wednesday, August 30, 2023 at 4:29:41p CDT This crowd is still going strong. Oh boy, this Facebook post, featured on the ParlerWatch subreddit, has it all. If you want to get a latest-look update on the mind of the QAnon-MAGA nut, read on. Spoiler Let’s get started with this gem. You're not going crazy. Everything really is more expensive. The dollar is weaker than it's ever been in any of our lifetimes. Everything is more expensive, but that is always the case. Even in times of low inflation, there is still inflation. But yes, inflation has been a thing, for sure. But the dollar? The dollar is weakest since, like, a few months ago. And, in fact, it’s just off a roughly 20-year high. It’s funny: They have no idea what “weak dollar” means, which would make American exports cheaper and imports more expensive, providing an economic boon to American manufacturers. The MAGA set just hears “weak” and freaks out, even if, in reality, the dollar remains pretty strong in the grand scheme of things. BRICS+ is about to take over 80% of oil production globally. The US dollar is in free fall. Bidenomics is killing our economy. Ah yes, BRICS. I wrote about BRICS a few weeks ago. In short, it is an effort by Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (but mostly Russia) to create a counterbalance to Western hegemony. Among the world’s top 10 most populated countries, nine of them are in BRICS or are interested in joining it. (The exception is the United States.) Their problem is that seven of the top 10 economies are West-aligned. And this isn’t a bloc like NATO. It’s an informal club with no teeth, no guiding agenda, and no cohesive ideology. None of these nations, including China, can thrive economically without the United States or Europe (plus aligned nations). Indeed, China’s economy is on the skids for several reasons, but the flight of Western nations looking to diversify their logistics to a less threatening country is a big part of it. China’s multiple draconian COVID-19 shutdowns dramatically impacted global supply chains, while their belligerent actions toward Taiwan inspire no confidence. War is bad for business. Russia won’t bail out China’s economy. It is fascinating, however, to see the QAnon crowd seize on the BRICS narrative. That is very much Russia’s social media influence campaign in action. We are already in WW3. It's happening right now. LOL, no it’s not, but again, this mirrors Russia’s messaging. These marks are soaking up Russian propaganda. Covid was a biological weapon. The shots are neither safe or effective. It's population control. They cause heart problems, sudden death, turbo cancer, blood clots, and it's still killing many of our athletes and young people. Russia invaded Ukraine to shut down globalist and American bioweapons labs which were preparing to start another pandemic. Russia, Russia, Russia. QAnon, at this point, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Vladimir Putin Enterprises. Ironically, it was Yevgeny Prigozhin, the recently deceased leader of the Wagner paramilitary group, who owned and operated the troll farms that fed this misinformation to gullible conspiracy theorists in the West. Following Prigozhin’s assassination, I assume those have been taken over by the state. I did have to look up “turbo cancer.” That was a new one. It’s definitely a thing. This AFP fact check has more. Guess who is pushing that conspiracy? Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Children’s Health Defense. And if COVID was a hoax, why do we need bioweapons labs to start “another pandemic”? Either there was a pandemic and it was real, or there was not a pandemic and it was a hoax. Would a little internal consistency kill these people? Maui was an inside job. They left the power on with downed lines in hurricane winds, turned off the water, and barricaded people in a burning city and told them to go home to die. It's a land grab. Hundreds of children if not thousands are dead. Their world is a dark, dark one. We've been in a cultural civil war for nearly a decade or more. The war is going hot, as people are finally awakening to the fact we're in the middle of a global authoritarian communist regime takeover. Ironic, given that they take their marching orders and talking points from Putin and his troll farms. The 2020 election was rigged. Biden was not fairly elected, and he's not in power. This is Obama's 3rd term. Someone murdered Obama's chef and they swept it under the rug. The “Obamas’ chef” thing has proven fertile ground for the conspiracists, fueled by artificial intelligence deepfake videos. The chef drowned while paddleboarding near the Obamas’ waterfront Martha’s Vineyard estate. The Associated Press has been fact-checking the wild claims, seemingly to no avail. The weather is changing, but not for the reasons they're telling us. It's because of the sun, solar cycles, and geo-engineered weather modification being conducted by several world governments with competing intentions and purposes. Climate change could be happening for the reasons science states, or because of a bunch of nonsense these types read online when they “do their own research.” It’s really amazing how they reject information from any knowledgeable source in favor of random cranks on the internet. At the very least, they could settle on one conspiracy rather than this “throw everything at the wall and see if anything sticks” approach. Canceling communists is the only acceptable form of cancel culture. In our grandparents age, their preferred method of dealing with communists was to shoot them. Putin is overtly working toward the recreation of the Soviet Union. There’s one side objectively working to thwart a new Soviet state, and it isn’t these QAnon, pro-Putin guys. It’s everyone fighting to make sure Russia doesn’t win in Ukraine. January 6th was a false flag. Political prisoners are still in jail and being tortured by our government without a fair trial. The FBI and Antifa were responsible for the majority of the violence. Wait—if Jan. 6 was a false flag, then the people in jail are FBI and Antifa, right? I mean, they were convicted using visually confirmed video of them engaging in violence. You can’t have it both ways. You can’t say that those convicted of the violence are “political prisoners” and also say Jan. 6 was a false flag. Trump is being politically prosecuted. Lockdowns and Covid restrictions are coming back. Do not comply. Blah, blah, blah. It’s gotta be exhausting living a life in which conspiracies lurk in every shadow. ChatGPT could not have written a better summary of their insanity.
I'm not sure I'm totally on board with that theory. There's tons of stuff that makes zero sense (like why JFK jr is alive and is a rwnj) that you have to be kind of stupid to not see the wires on. I get people want to believe but you can't square all of these things he's saying like suddenly there's an "ah-ha" moment when there just isn't one for the vast majority... or they're not smart enough to see it.
It’s a compartmentalization thing. Plenty of people in to conspiracies are perfectly fine with saying “well, no not that part. Those people are crazy. This other stuff is solid though.”
could not disagree with this more. yeah they’re brainwashed but they’re also really really stupid human beings
I spent way too much time yesterday explaining to a guy on youtube that Aaron Rodgers doesn't know what he's talking about when he speaks about covid. The guy established Rodgers' authority because he came from a family of health professionals and has been around great medical minds his entire career. My Response: does that mean I'm qualified to fly a plane if my dad and golf buddy are pilots? Surprisingly, that wasn't the dumbest comment. That was when he said no doctor he knows recommends multiple vaccines on the same visit. I simply pointed out that MMR and DPT have 3 letters to describe the 3 vaccines included in the shot. Finally had to mute the conversation because it wasn't going to stop.
Yeah I'm just saying that doesn't square with having an epiphany. That sounds like you know it's bullshit and you look the other way on it.
Will Sommer has talked about this exact scenario with the various “denominations” of qanon believers.
It’s mental illness not stupidity. But, you can have mental illness AND be stupid. Not mutual inclusive or exclusive
Respectfully I don't think it's mental illness and it seems like that kind of cheapens the term mental illness.
I don’t think you can pinpoint a sole major factor. For some it’s mental illness. For some it’s stupidly. For some it’s a need to believe in something, anything. For some it’s a need to feel like they belong and are a part of something. For some it’s a total unwillingness to be responsible for anything in their lives, so they just act on some kind of faith. For some all of the above.
The real phenomenon is these writers who constantly come up with excuse and create narratives that normalize these people because when they meet them the writers find them pleasant to talk to. I think a lot of the Qnon people cling to conspiracy theories because they allow them to pretend that they are not voting for evil people who want to do evil things.
I’ve watched enough documentaries on Q to understand the underlying aspect that unites them is racism. They found someone who validates their hate and they cling to that shit. Trump and MAGA allows them to be racist assholes all the “crazy” shit is just window dressing for the real thing.
In my experience it's been people with middling brains who want to think they're smart or dumb people who are also weak-willed. I've only met a couple of intelligent, successful people who went down that road and they have a mental illness. But maybe I'm still discounting the stupid.
I think there are brilliant people who become conspiracy theorists. They’re rare and typically mentally ill or autistic, but they’re still brilliant. But, the overwhelming majority of conspiracy theorists have some combination of dumb, brainwashed, racist, and/or have a personality disorder.
Most conspiracy theorists like to think they know something others don't, to the point of arrogance. Shu was that way. Like we're all idiots and he knows what's actually happening. The best part is Shu never said anything that made me think he was remotely intelligent but this guy has it figured out .
It'a like people have to pussyfoot around calling them stupid because then they'll just resist coming out of the conspiracy world because they've been insulted. But, they're absolute fucking morons. Most people are.
Couple QAnon guys I work with, well ones total Q ones Q-lite… Q lite’s Dr told him he needs to lose weight his cholesterol and BP are high, he was enjoying a nice breakfast of nuts and berrys. Total Q called him out because total Q is on the carnivore diet and it’s the only way to eat, so fucking arrogant. Told him cholesterol was made up bullshit to try and get you on pills. If anything they’re entertainingly stupid.