#qanon movement

[theexodvs]

Dispensationalism has led American evangelicals to neoconservatism, an ideology with an inherently Marxist worldview. Many of their children have taken the basics of the worldview to their logical conclusions and are becoming Marxists.

Dispensationalism has also led American evangelicalism to the conspiracy theories that led to Trump and QAnon.

There is a dispy-to-Marxist and dispy-to-Q pipeline.

Therefore, to ensure a future for American evangelicalism, dispensationalism must be cut out from it like the tumor it is.

[theshoesofatiredman]

Rehashing a conversation with my mom in which admittedly I retcon myself as more articulate and my mom probably much less so

My mom: *sends QAnon video to me to explain her beliefs*

Me: it seems like there's a lot of stuff in here that doesn't line up with your beliefs as a Christian? He poses that people are inherently good except for a select few "criminals" that are deeply evil. This goes against your belief in the total depravity of man. I would also point out that Trump is damn near messianic in this worldview but you already have a messiah to believe in. This conflict between good and evil posed here seems like it lacks the biblical context I would think you'd need to believe in it. This whole thing seems designed to radicalize people for the Trump campaign and I think that's what has happened to you.

Mom: Oh but Q uses Bible verses all the time. It's very Christian.

Me: I'm sure they do since that's what they have to do to appeal to their base, but how do you reconcile the claims that seem both endemic to QAnon but heretical to your faith, like I just spelled out.

Mom: I don't really remember any of that being in there. I'd have to go back and watch it.

My relationship with my parents is fractured for a number of reasons, but Trump and QAnon are among them. They've always been Republicans and my dad had an inclination towards conspiracy craziness, but my mom never seemed to buy it. They both seemed to buy the QAnon garbage hook line and sinker.

Q was literally rewriting history for them, past and present. The sinking of the Titanic? An assassination of key stakeholders against the movement to establish the federal reserve. The pandemic? An attack on Trump's presidency. Fully unhinged and off the rails versions of events were being fully accepted by the very people who raised me to think critically about the world around me.

I feel like the people my parents were, drowned in the murk of QAnon and Trumpism. They're not the only ones. I've read so many stories from people whose loved ones are locked in the grip of these ideologies. I do not know the way out of this darkness. I do not know how to fix it. All of this makes me furious.

Fuck the people who created these ideologies for their own gain. Fuck those who knowingly spread false information because it would give them what they wanted. Fuck the politicians and influencers who COWER in the face of their base and force themselves to kneel before the alter of QAnon and Trumpism to preserve their own power. Fuck Donald Trump for his disgusting greed and lust for power, for his terrible ego and self importance. The harm all of you have done is incalculable. You have sown the wind, but it's more than just you in the field. Now we are all reaping the whirlwind.

[dissonant-aria]

Qanon wishes they were Anonymous. Oh yeah, Im sure your failed candidate will be president secretly again any day now.

[friendlypsychopathnextdoor]

Do you think there’s a chip in the vaccine? Frequencies can control you. If the chip can send frequencies to your body, then you’re already mind controlled from that chip!

Of course not. No, they cannot.

You must think of yourself as very important if you think anyone is interested in mind controlling you when they clearly have not even put in the effort to educate you on how neurons or vaccines work.

If there was the technology and financial resources to force people to do something by controlling their mind, which there are not, noone would waste them on you when they can clearly just post things on Facebook or other social media sites to get you to go as far as to fight against something that can safe yours and other’s lives.

You are rsiking your life because of a facebook post, why would anyone need “chips”.

Post scriptum: The brain does not work like that. It really, really doesn’t. We can’t even always properly insert single electrodes (not “chips”) in big surgeries just to control a small amount of seizures in Parkison patients with electric impulses (not “frequencies”). Your brain does not care for the kind of frequencies you are referring to, because it has no evolutionary reason to do so.

[b-is-for-borderline]

A man murdered his children in cold blood because QAnon conspiracy theories convinced him that his children would be monsters.

He shot them in the chest with a spear gun, a method so cruel that it needed to override a paternal instinct.

Ideas have consequences.

[mike-gwydion-ream]

[jaspersboy]

There is a part of the brain that says: "Ooops, anything past this line is crazypants." Those people are missing that part.

QAnon followers believe Donald Trump used "body double" at Arizona rally

One QAnon follower said: "When he came out…I instantly felt it was not him. I kept trying to convince myself that it was."

[goretzki]