Came across this interesting piece written by a game designer who has worked in alternate reality and cosplay/roleplay type games that crossover into the real world about why he believes QAnon has been so successful.

I've been fascinated in the psychology behind it because it's clear that there's quite a few 'normal' people who seemed to have been hoodwinked by it and it's cultish draw must be very alluring.

There's an awful lot in here which makes sense. Worth a read if you have 10 minutes spare.

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They will always be real.

I think the stat is it takes between 3 - 6 months to completely indoctrinate someone on social media.

Article is very interesting, compliments a couple of others that I've read recently along the same lines. The psychology isn't actually that 'new', but the method of delivery and subsequent affirmation very much is.

Did you know? 98.0000001% of people are morons.

That may be, but are we allowed to point out falsehoods that have not come to pass by the end of this date? Or as one poster has said because we don't '100% know for sure that it is fake then to enforce your view on someone else is no better than what they are doing.'

So basically because I'm not in the Vatican with the Pope right now, and I can't see him and see that he's very much not arrested with my own eyes, then anything goes? TBF even if I could I'd get told I was in the matrix, hooked up to VR or looking at a hologram or some s***.

On that 100% basis, everything is simultaneously fake and real at the same time because, really, unless you can see it with your own eyes you can't prove it to be 100% true or false. Mentalism. You can't function like that. Nothing can.

Did you know? 98.0000001% of people are morons.

Nope – stop making it about left and right all the time FFS

I have exactly the same opinions about religions. Christianity, Islam, Hindu, don't care. It's the same method, the same psychology and the same nonsense.

However, if people believe something then fine, sure. If they start endlessly preaching (regurgitating content from others) rather than formulating opinion based on their beliefs, then that's an issue. If they simply choose to repost stuff they haven't written as their main form of communication / preaching, big problem.

Happens all the time, it's not specific to QAnon. But this thread is being hijacked by QAnon. So guess what we're ridiculing. QAnon.

Anyone's free to start preaching about islam, christianity, flat earth, or how pokemon are actually real any time they like. But it will be met with exactly the same derision. It's not a partisan issue for me.

Did you know? 98.0000001% of people are morons.

So I'll speak about the involvement of the Russians in Trump's 2016 election (and Brexit) again then!

It was not a conspiracy theory! People were prosecuted, found guilty and jailed as a consequence. Some have now been pardoned by Trump. Reflect on why!

Trump was given a "get out of jail free" card by Barr when he ruled that a sitting POTUS could not be indicted. Mueller did not, as Trump claimed, exonerate him. As he said at the time if he had found no evidence against him he would have said so, but he didn't.

This delusion that just because Trump slipped through the net after Mueller means that the accusations were all a conspiracy is a transparent nonsense. It simply means that justice has been postponed.

It's now time that these delusions were laid to rest and reality allowed to creep back into the minds of even the most seriously affected. The events of last week must surely be sufficient evidence to start questioning past attitudes.

Once the 20th is over and Barr feels able to speak more freely I am sure we will gradually learn some more.

Russia were involved. Trump knew. Time will prove both.

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.