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I don’t disagree with any of this.

I think the murky part is how much was followed seriously by people that didn’t know better, how much was liberals trolling or themselves not knowing how much was a joke to rile them up, how much was straight larping, etc.

You know that quote about when to get out of the stock market, when your shoe shine boy is giving you tips? When I had a VERY liberal friend start ranting about QAnon very seriously I knew she fell into the same exact type of person that believed it just on the opposite spectrum.

The rest of us knew it was trolling and jokes and bs, but man she flipped out on me when I tried to tell her that. I was effectively signing up to be a Nazi in her eyes, I had no idea at the time.

Anyhow… this isn’t a new problem and I don’t think it can be solved. I grant that the reach is larger than previous thought.

I take that back. Open mockery of the ideas is how it’s solved. NOT mockery of the people that believe it, and certainly not grouping them into boomers or conservatives or Nazis or TERFs or etc etc.