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Recommending this @replyall episode, which is nominally about who Q actually is but, more usefully, provides a window into the fringe origins of something that’s swallowing whole parts of the country, including, probably, someone you love. https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/llhe5nm
I’m going to get real annoying about this On Here but if you have loved ones and relatives who spend time online, especially older or lonely or kind of gullible ones (we all know someone), you should talk to them now about this, because it’s coming for them.
People keep acting like this is just something stupid thing a few bozos believe but guys, the Satanic Panic happened in most of our lifetimes and until *very* recently there were STILL falsely accused people in jail because of it. https://www.vox.com/2016/10/30/13413864/satanic-panic-ritual-abuse-history-explained
For instance, the letters in this are a reference to a QAnon slogan.
https://twitter.com/publicroad/status/1307705075436007432?s=21 https://twitter.com/publicroad/status/1307705075436007432
https://twitter.com/publicroad/status/1307705075436007432?s=21 https://twitter.com/publicroad/status/1307705075436007432
Other things to introduce and hopefully inoculate yourself and others. This @AdrienneLaF piece from @TheAtlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/06/qanon-nothing-can-stop-what-is-coming/610567/
The second half of this podcast, though I deeply recommend the whole thing (the first half is on YouTube’s algorithms and the radicalization of mostly young white men) https://www.nytimes.com/column/rabbit-hole
This, which should deeply concern churchgoers and those who love them: https://religionnews.com/2020/08/17/qanon-the-alternative-religion-thats-coming-to-your-church/
Same with this: https://world.wng.org/2020/08/sign_of_the_times
Especially this, which is about that Wayfair thing going around FB/Insta and the big, big problems with the way we talk about human trafficking, which QAnon is using to mainstream itself: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4xgMoffYsLBicu1CnMqqiq?si=kFvwQEbFS_agJIa9pOPGlw
And finally, @Millicentsomer on how QAnon got real popular with women, partly though influencers, this summer: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/09/qanon-women-why.html?via=recirc_recent
