So keep an eye out for shills using these talking points, I guess.
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Solving mysteries and the community support made them feel smart. It offered a sense of purpose and control in a time where those things were scarce.
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Because distrust of liberals and the media was fundamental to Trump and Q, it falls to conservatives to engage the QAnon followers. Conservatives can have some credibility and an opportunity, especially if they look for real issues that connect to the underlying concerns of the QAnon base. If they can also offer online communities with online activities that make the followers feel valuable and smart—a major attraction of the QAnon world—they could successfully give followers an out that leads them back to a space of truth.
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Avoid arguments, judgment, criticism, or humiliation. Share testimonials from people who have abandoned Q. Emphasize that the followers were lied to and that they are victims of those lies—the sense of victimhood is already prevalent among Q followers. This process of de-cultification requires patience and suppressing justified anger, recriminations, and frustration. It also may not work, but it is grounded in the best professional advice on bringing people back out of a cult.
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QAnon followers drove the insurrection at the Capitol, and the conspiracy theory has infiltrated all levels of the Republican party. As QAnon crumbles, its adherents will not disappear with it. What they turn to next will shape conservative politics for years to come. Bringing them back to a space where they operate on truth and facts is critical.
The fact that they are calling this the "QAnon" movement shows that they have not a clue! Their lack of understanding has made them create something that does not exists! Any body following the q drops knows this, There is no "QAnon". There ARE anons, there IS Q, some even think there is Q+ aka trump. But there has never been a QANON.
I can sell you a colony on mars. Please join my mars space cult.
I am however curious to know what critical thinking avenue they could sell me. It's the achilles heel of the media. Oh wait, for them to get that would require critical thinking.
Gaslighting would be their specialty if they didn't perfect the strawman. Most of fact checking is stawman tactics. Create a fake enemy ie. "qanon" that the uninformed attach to the real enemy ie. "Q". Rinse and repeat as needed.
Oh yeah, like that guy on CNN who was an actor and contributed to CNN in the past
So keep an eye out for shills using these talking points, I guess.
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Solving mysteries and the community support made them feel smart. It offered a sense of purpose and control in a time where those things were scarce.
"
.
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Because distrust of liberals and the media was fundamental to Trump and Q, it falls to conservatives to engage the QAnon followers. Conservatives can have some credibility and an opportunity, especially if they look for real issues that connect to the underlying concerns of the QAnon base. If they can also offer online communities with online activities that make the followers feel valuable and smart—a major attraction of the QAnon world—they could successfully give followers an out that leads them back to a space of truth.
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Avoid arguments, judgment, criticism, or humiliation. Share testimonials from people who have abandoned Q. Emphasize that the followers were lied to and that they are victims of those lies—the sense of victimhood is already prevalent among Q followers. This process of de-cultification requires patience and suppressing justified anger, recriminations, and frustration. It also may not work, but it is grounded in the best professional advice on bringing people back out of a cult.
"
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QAnon followers drove the insurrection at the Capitol, and the conspiracy theory has infiltrated all levels of the Republican party. As QAnon crumbles, its adherents will not disappear with it. What they turn to next will shape conservative politics for years to come. Bringing them back to a space where they operate on truth and facts is critical.
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The fact that they are calling this the "QAnon" movement shows that they have not a clue! Their lack of understanding has made them create something that does not exists! Any body following the q drops knows this, There is no "QAnon". There ARE anons, there IS Q, some even think there is Q+ aka trump. But there has never been a QANON.
I can sell you a colony on mars. Please join my mars space cult.
I am however curious to know what critical thinking avenue they could sell me. It's the achilles heel of the media. Oh wait, for them to get that would require critical thinking.
Yeah, it's just pure gaslighting. Ministry of Truth time, Reality Czar incoming.
Gaslighting would be their specialty if they didn't perfect the strawman. Most of fact checking is stawman tactics. Create a fake enemy ie. "qanon" that the uninformed attach to the real enemy ie. "Q". Rinse and repeat as needed.
Well, if they were in D.C. on 1/6, then they're already "extremists" right? So that ship has sailed.
I just wish these extremists would make a good Hacker News or Wired magazine that's worth reading.
Sick of liberal trash media. Love tech news, but it's almost unreadable now since all they do is push their evil.
They could come whistle blow on this site and we can fact check them? Come out and come clean.