Just curious to find out if anyone came to this board to see the "Q crazies" and ended up finding that there aren't nearly as many crazies as expected, and maybe even ended up agreeing with some of the information posted here hadn't ever been presented before.
I certainly don't expect people who have been lurking for only a little while to be a full-blown Q follower, but am wondering how many people found out about this board from an anti-"QAnon" board or news article, just to end up sticking around because you are genuinely interested in it as a resource?
Cheers.
You are saying that by visiting this board frequently, you began to adopt a conspiratorial mindset?
Me personally? No; I kinda have more of a fatalistic, roll-of-the-dice view of the world.
But it's easy to see in Reddit/Twitter folks who cover this subject, or even behind-the-scenes political stuff in general (see: Louise Mensch, Seth Abramson): if your investigations require you to think in conspiracy terms, guess what? You're gonna start thinking in conspiracy terms, even when you shouldn't.
EDIT: banned, that's my cue, peace out yall -- it's been a ride.
I've heard maybe it's the CIA? But the term's been around forever, negative connotations and all, since at least the Civil War (which obviously had a few conspiracies in it).
One totally granular example: here's a book published in 1895, talking about the conspiracy theories behind secession.