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Culture War Roundup for the week of September 5, 2022

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Q is a stressful, antisocial phenomena and was from the get-go IMO. It didn’t promote bonding, praise, or positive emotion. It promoted rabbit holes, paranoia, and subscriptions to Q analysis. I actually considered some years ago that it was an Intel-job specifically to neuter the activism of the Right, because it prevented pretty much anything but conspiratorial rabbit-holling and conjecture. I suppose there is something to be said about the belief that you’re one of the chosen supporters who knows the real truth, but this is of modest benefit compared to the alternatives of community participation.

I don’t think winning or losing factors in to this so much, I mean you have MAPs trying to make the same community as Transgenders, and MAPs are going to lose no matter what. I also don’t think the Christian Right has communities as vehemently positive as Leftist communities, at least I haven’t heard of them.

The Christian Right has a lot of communities that are incredibly positive. They’re just IRL. And far right wingers mostly going to irl for their bonding and community needs explains a lot of the difference, honestly.

new age Q-ists are pretty big about bonding, praise and positive emotion. Lots of yoga teachers and what not.

Lots of people had bonding and praise in Q threads. They were originally excited and would heap liberal praise on those who interpreted the various cryptic clues and symbols.

You could say the same for scientology.

I don't think it is necessarily one or the other. There are still anti-vax rallies every now and then here despite many of us now going months at a time without thinking of COVID any more. It may be conspiratorial, catastrophising, and paranoid, sure, but also a lot these people just like being a part of something, formed a bit of a social group they find meaningful and just want to keep the vibe going (even if it seems a bit anachronistic to the rest of us). The protest is less about the protest qua policy influence than the chance to see all your like-minded friends.

My uncle fell hook line and sinker for it. He is a nuclear scientist for GE. He is all about new reactor designs. But god damn he has become a full Q, space laser retard.

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