Re:The Now-Defunct Firms Behind 8chan, QAnon
by ianai on Friday October 23, 2020 @10:30AM
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The “casual followers” of conspiracy theories aren’t doing anybody any good. They’re just increasing the spread of the disinformation. This stuff needs to be fought, refuted, and relegated to the dustbin of history. “casual following” is the sort of thing that lets this win a place in the core of public discourse and culture.
Re:The Now-Defunct Firms Behind 8chan, QAnon
by Jetrel on Friday October 23, 2020 @05:34PM
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Something for historical consideration is that - if we just go full Godwin's law here: in Nazi Germany, most citizens were just "casual followers" of anti-semitism.
You don't have to be gung ho to let someone ELSE do something horrible. You just have to be just on-board enough to let them sit in the driver's seat.
That said, your experience with Q is not universal. There are many people who take it much, much more seriously than you do and have alienated friends and family members and lost jobs as a result. And, of course, fired a gun in a pizza shop, shot and killed protestors, etc.