Conspiracism. Whether it returns to the fringes or not, will depend on whether people in office can resist using it.
So, that’s a no.
It’s not that they’ll be using it. They’ll believe it.
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beyond fascinating
there’s political power in it now
I’m just tripping on the end of that Frontline doc
If there is a republican party in a decade it will be the Q party
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It’ll be a big tent - Q true believers, plus people that will vote for any party that is willing to cut their personal taxes by $1 or more.
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I guess that’s what I mean. It’ll still be the republican party, but Q will be fully embraced. They can’t not welcome these people.
Anyone ever done a correlation of QAnon followers and how many grew up libertarian or claimed to be libertarian?
I remember hearing the one guy I knew in high school who seemed off the deep end with this stuff very early came from a family that espoused a lot of ‘weird’ political beliefs (libertarian in the 80s). He’s a smart guy who is incredibly susceptible to propaganda and satire. I raised a red flag with him back in probably 2011 over some article he unironically posted about some hot button issue. After reading a handful of the stats in it, it was clear satire they were impossible and stupid numbers with a very stilted writing style. It took awhile to find it but I eventually found the site was satire. The contact number for the site (which I called for funz) went to a Westboro Baptist Church voicemail. I guffawed over that.
When I told the guy it was satire and that he needed to be careful about what he takes as truth, he played the ‘woe is me’ card and said that he wasn’t as smart as me and that’s the price to pay. He was all in on Trump being some super secret cabal usurper back in 2016 due to him being the ‘only’ other presidential candidate besides I think Kennedy who had done some thing or some such and such related to bucking the cabal. I recommended he watch The Blacklist (a show about a literal cabal running things lol), and he said he doesn’t watch TV.
By the time I stopped interacting with him, it was just a litany of Q conspiracies. I told him he was gone, which he laughed at essentially calling people like me the crazy ones for ‘not getting it’. His sister was very supportive of him. She was bad at making her page private, so it should come as no shock that she was part of an MLM makeup selling scheme.
It seems clear to me that people who can’t identify propaganda easily are very susceptible to this sort of thing. It’s how memes that make no sense get shared unironically on all sides of the political spectrum. If it lines up with what one wants to see, one posts it without checking the veracity. It should come as no surprise these people don’t trust Snopes and think they’re in on whatever conspiracy the person crapping on them is describing that day.
Be careful, they’re known for dropping frivolous liens on people they sue. You don’t even realize it till you go to sell your house or something.
Wait what? Someone can just put a lien on your house for no reason? How can this be true?
Has to do with how the way liens are recorded. You’re not supposed to do it and states and the feds are slowly starting to criminalize it, but yes:
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That is some crazy shit. I’m pretty sure here you have to have a decision against them to do it.
I could walk into your county clerk’s office and file a bogus lien against you tomorrow. You’d eventually be able to sue me for damages, I’d get disbarred, etc., but I could do it.
In Canada. You sure?
Lol i have no idea about canada.
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Ok. I don’t think it works here. What possible reason does it exist there?
For the same reason lawsuits that haven’t been adjudicated exist: the lien is an allegation money is owed and a means for the creditor to collect.
Was just making a grocery list, and could help but laugh when I wrote tin foil
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Yes they’re called functioning autists.