Q-anon and "The Storm".

[Pio1980]

BBC News - Why is billionaire George Soros a bogeyman for the hard right?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-49584157

[Chicks]

"The church of QAnon": How a bizarre conspiracy theory is linked to evangelical Christianity

https://www.salon.com/2020/05/24/the...nity-_partner/

Lunatics, all.

[Chicks]

QAnon groups have millions of members on Facebook, documents show
The preliminary results of an investigation by Facebook shed new light on the scope of activity and content from the QAnon community on the platform.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...-show-n1236317

Imagine millions of clowns as looney as Insane out there! WTF is wrong with people!?

[donquixote99]

Crisis cults are very attractive to people who highly need a way to feel OK in, well, a crisis. And we right now are having a long term political/economic crisis that is enriching a few oligarchs while impoverishing the many, a pandemic crisis that is so poorly managed it is killing a thousand plus people a day, and an acute economic crisis caused by the pandemic and aggravated by derelict leadership, and more political crisis stemming from the demagogic/authoritarian efforts to distract from it all as the election looms. Hell, it's a wonder we don't have 10 Q-Anons.

[donquixote99]

Trumpism itself is a 'crisis cult,' of course.

[Pio1980]

Down the internet QAnonsense rabbit hole, one woman's story:
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...-mask-n1236695

[Oerets]

We need much stronger tort, libel, slander laws in this country. Something along the line to protect against this form of misguided mind control of the vulnerable.

[donquixote99]

You don't have to brainwash all of the people all of thectine--just 50%+1 of the ones that vote. Not even that many with the electoral college involved....

[Pio1980]

Dear God, it's worse and worse!
Folks are willingly gullible to utter nonsense and now, it's infecting 'Pubs with, what appears to me to be, foreign backed internet trolls LARPing these fools.
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinio...ng-ncna1236845

[donquixote99]

From FB:
"We have instincts to love hero figure leaders and hate enemies and villains. This means it feels good and right to activate these instincts. That's how they work to motivate us. Critical thinking, in comparison, is generally difficult and not very emotionally rewarding at all. Indeed, if you haven't been doing it, the results are just about certain to be quite unpleasant."