I try not to think about it but every so often I dwell on how stupid you have to be to believe in Q Anon. We always hear “My sister was a smart person! It can happen to anyone.” and that’s just not true. It can’t happen to anyone. Your sister isn’t smart.

I'm very much of the opinion that there's a diet, a cult, and a drug out there for all of us, perfectly suited to slot into our brain in just the right way. That said, QAnon is for dopes. It's for people who are fundamentally bad at thinking in an extraordinary way.

I have to agree. Short of a bout of psychosis, I mean like actual severe untreated schizophrenia, I don't see how you could be smart and believe in Q Anon.

They tend to be so gullible. I one spoofed about a 4Q2 download/dump that started out "Listen up you f*ckers..." and some of them were engaging as if it was real, not a spoof.

Thank you for writing this. It's something I say all the time, just not as kindly as you.

“Durrr that’s not true, anyone can be had” wrong

I remain convinced that Qanon is just a prank to see how stupid people are, to find the dumbest thing that can be put out and still be eagerly embraced. Like kidnapping children and taking them to the basement of a pizza place without a basement to drink their blood.

I don’t necessarily mean to gainsay this, but…it is what it is. I believe the longer these sorts of movements are regarded as cognitive or intellectual or intelligence phenomena, the more dangerous they become. These movements manifest a will to power, to freedom from accountability.

Liberalism has so closely aligned with power that it can plausibly create a narrative about how Right Wing activism is striking a blow against power.

"My father was an engineer, you really think that someone could be an engineer and also really fucking stupid"