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Majority Of Republicans Believe The QAnon Conspiracy Theory Is Partly Or Mostly True, Survey Finds
72% of Democrats say the QAnon conspiracy is “not true at all.”
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56% of Republicans believe Qanon is "partly or mostly true" [up: possibly misleading questions, see threadmark]
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Terrifying.
The only consolation to me is that I guess it's possible a lot of the respondents might not really be aware of what Qanon is. I'm going to go with that, for my sanity
The only consolation to me is that I guess it's possible a lot of the respondents might not really be aware of what Qanon is. I'm going to go with that, for my sanity
I think with the wording it's more accurate to say it's not qanon they believe in per se, but in the theory it promotes of the "deep state elites".
Most conspiracy theories have a piece of truth to them, in this case, there are pedophile rings out there being used by powerful people. Your average person also has no idea just how insane this cult is so they might not know anything about JFK Jr, psychic vampires, or the culling they dream about. They think it's just about sex trafficking and think "sure, we all saw what happened with Epstein".
shit...palette swap and mash up enemies are a sign the devs are out of ideas. looks like we're in the later levels of the simulation.
My mother who uses Facebook daily has unfortunately come across multiple Qanon related images (she has no clue what Qanon is but many of the images/posts she has shown me have Qanon as a tag or as text on the picture) over the past few months and many of the things she see's she believes is true. I've done what I can to debunk everything she's shown me that's Qanon related and provide articles showing why they are false and the dangers of this kind of misinformation but have had only mild success in getting her mind to change.
Questions were misleading
more concerning is why only 72% of dems think its bullshit. Who is the other 28% that thinks its true and still voting for Biden? This poll has to be borked.
I'm guessing older Democrats see QAnon and figure it's a skater t-shirt brand or something. It hasn't hit the mainstream outside of gullible conservatives.
Qanon is the Ready Player One of conservative grievance conspiracy.
The thing about this conspiracy is that it has far more support among Republicans than Democrats, and pro-Trump than anti-Trump people, yet the underlying premise is that Trump is so weak and inept of a president that after nearly four years he has still failed to do anything about this deep state plot happening right under his nose.
Amazing how so many people can get roped into trusting anonymous edgelords rolling their faces on keyboards.
A misinformation campaign that ultimately makes people harm each other pretty much is one.
Ah not true he had John McCain and GHwB secretly executed for treason
74% of Americans also claim to believe in some sort of organised religion.
There is nothing new or alarming here.
There is nothing new or alarming here.
This is probably a big part of it, but the fact that they believe the 'deep state elites' part just means they are primed to buy into Q anon once exposed to it.
Eh, I don't think it's unbelievable that there is a cabal of rich sickos like Prince Andrew doing pedo shit considering everything with Jeffery Epstein. Qanon wackos just took it way further and are stupid enough to think Trump of all people is on their side.
Also, the Catholic Church. Also, the US Government overthrowing countries, Cointellpro, mass surveillance and the MK Ultra Experiments on unknowing people. If you are some random person who thinks QAnon is just some people saying the CIA/Government are doing shady shit and human trafficking, this answer is not really crazy, because it has been established the US government has worked within and around human trafficking, drug trafficking, and unauthorized arms trading.
There is a huge difference between "believes in religion" and "believes in Q Anon".
Sure but there's rarely if ever any specifics and what specifics do exist have been wrong.
You could legitimately claim 9/11 was an inside job started by Reagan if you want to stretch things out to the level of qanon's vagueness with certain claims.
US government aids and abets most of the human trafficking in the US, which is primarily immigrants brought over for agricultural labor and then kept in exploitative labor conditions they can't leave for fear of deportation.
None of what you've described is similar to Q Anon though, which is just the Satanic Panic rebranded to protect Donald Trump.
I finally googled "Qanon"...
Some of the people in this f-ing country are out of their goddamn minds.
Some of the people in this f-ing country are out of their goddamn minds.
It sure is showing how you can convince a large group of people that anything is true by throwing shit at the wall. And I have no idea why the left hasn't even tried to do this aside from jokes that never catch on.
Because this stuff doesn't work with leftist worldviews/belief systems. This crap is the kind of thing fascism is built on, whereas in order to be a leftist you have to be at least somewhat aware of the complexities of the world and the way systemic issues in society function.
I think the left generally agrees encouraging conspiracy theories with no grounding in reality is bad.
Right but that's why it's not surprising that someone say they believe in parts of Q or the vague ideas they think it touches on without knowing the stupid plainly false details like the cast of Friends being executed for their crimes and replaced by clones.
It's a bit more complicated and specific then that unfortunately.
It's the natural consequence of both conspiratorial and magical thinking and also the trend of messianic cults of personality around politicians running into a wall of goverment dysfunction, austerity and social decline
dead on about the point that 56% are ready to believe some version of the real thing if it's presented right
it's uh not great
Unless we're talking about how the DNC rigged the primaries of course
Of course they do, they've brainwashed themselves with an unhealthy amount of Fox News, Facebook "stories" and Youtube and the older they are the worse it gets.
Q Anon isn't "powerful people often get away with abusing vulnerable people in society" it's the belief that there is a secret shadow cabal of Hollywood elites, Democrat-voting tech business leaders, Democratic politicians, and Jews engaging in systemic child abductions and abuse for the purposes of harvesting "adrenochrome" from their traumatized brains to use as a drug and for satanic rituals, and that Donald Trump is secretly fighting to bring this Satanic cabal down. The former is a reasonably true belief; the latter is sheer insanity.
How many people responding to this poll even know what QAnon is to that extent though?
Okay, I did not know about this bit of Q-Anon lore. Wow. Incredible stuff lol.
Oh sure, and it's a precursor to fascism as well.
Pretty fucking insulting of you to even compare these two thing, honestly.