I can answer that -- nonbeliever here. I started coming here to learn more about the folks, not the Plan: I've gone over the Q proofs/evidence/theories and I haven't reached the same conclusion, but I do think the anons are worth getting to know.
I don't agree with Q, I don't believe the Plan is happening, I believe the world is a lot more chaotic and boring than Q makes it seem, but I can't deny that Q/anon is a major force in the political discourse (for now) and therefore worth learning more about.
Question for me! Leftist here, I'll give an honest answer to that scenario (I'm taking "it all falls apart" to mean election fraud is definitively proven, cabal is exposed, crimes are revealed, etc).
If I wake up tomorrow and that's all been proven, I'd immediately start digging into it, trying to figure out how I wound up so deceived. My opinions about Trump's selfishness were wrong, everyone who criticized Trump (even his own people) was wrong, every mistake was intentional, the contradictions really were necessary disinfo -- it was all part of the plan and it's been running like a Swiss watch all along.
I'd be stunned for sure: reeling, shaken, skeptical but can't escape the truth.
But once the shock wears off, I think I'd be happy: the pedophiles are caught, the evildoers are punished, the illegit election has been fixed, and the heroes are in control again. It sucks that people I respected and admired are monsters, but that's not a new concept (Cosby and Saville, anyone?).
I'd need to continue with my life, and the only way to do that is to accept I was wrong and start mending bridges. If that day comes, it's gonna blow, but I have to be ready for it.
And this is where I say "I suggest you do the same, the opposite way, just in case", but I can't figure out how to phrase that without sounding patronizing, so I'll just leave it there and skedaddle, it's steak o'clock and the pan's hot.
TLDR: Shock, but then acceptance, because the alternative is a dead end.
Just a curious outsider here, trying to understand more about Q/anons straight from the source.
lib here, from the other side of the conflict.
I don't think it's that common sense has been abandoned, it's that both sides -- lib and based -- are rewriting their common sense in response to the evidence they see, which is rarely a complete picture of a big complicated mess. All the common sense in the world won't help you if you assembled your way of thinking from bad evidence: the foundation is poisoned.
Make them a deal: come into the debate willing to admit you're wrong, as long as they're willing to admit the same. If you both come in willing to accept the possibility of being wrong, maybe there's a way to crack a hole in that brick wall between yourself and family.
But if you both plant your feet down, you clash and end up in a stalemate, and the wall -- so to speak -- gets another ten feet higher.
EDIT: Just a curious outsider here, trying to understand more about Q/anons straight from the source.
(Lib here -- full disclaimer)
My bare bones answer would be: because arresting an ex-President isn't something you do lightly. It would instantly be the biggest incident in American political history and if anything's going to inspire more violence, it would be that. All legislative process would grind to a halt because the Republicans would refuse to focus on anything else; they'd be going to bat for Trump nonstop and reaping the benefit of a furious voter base. Democrats would be destroyed in the 2022 midterms, but congrats, they got Trump in a perp walk.
You come at the king, you best not miss. If there is a case to be made against Trump for Jan. 6th, it needs to be bulletproof, and (in my opinion, based on what I currently know) it's not, and the cost outweighs the benefit for the dogcatchers.
Don't worry -- this isn't real in the slightest. It's an old ifunny post.
PS The reference to the Great Leap Forward kinda seals the deal, it's satire.
That was a fake article by rawrealnews: https://realrawnews.com/2021/08/marines-rebuke-def-sec-no-mandatory-vaccinations-for-my-marines/
"Military Hangs Susan Rice" and "Military Executes Tom Hanks" are some other wild tales by the same journalist -- dismiss as disinfo.
Protip -- it's the language, not the content. Ten-dollar words in a five-dollar sentence: "Why specifically" / "more expedient" / "ascribing odious motives"
When I was a teenager, I would hit the thesaurus to spice up my posts with an air of intellectualism. What I learned -- it has the opposite effect.
sincerely, a fren
Thanks! Trying my best, it's a fine line.