User:RD/9k/ QAnon is democratic (Q25,88)

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2588. QAnon is democratic / Despite being fundamentally anti-rational, QAnon was democratic in that it allowed groups of people with grievances that weren't being answered to cluster together, discuss their grievances, and find people who would represent them and force other groups of people in their national population to respond to their grievances; the structure of QAnon is not easily distinguishable from the basic principles of Liberal-republicanism that may include people nominating representatives of their choice and Kantian ethics -> welcome to the United States! here, everyone believes things fully this stupid.
      even me. hey, I believe there's a < 1% chance Trotskyism will actually happen some day as Trotskyism in one country; that's a pretty stupid thing to entertain, isn't it? but I have to, because workers emerge from the pool of normal people, and normal people believe society isn't based on material possibilities but on Cultures Culturing and Culturing Good With Other Cultures and Freedom.
2588. "highlighting the extent of that racism may help diminish the spread of QAnon ideology in South America and Africa" [1] - honestly, no. you look at a typical nutshell summary of QAnon — "the deep state is operating a global child sex trafficking ring" "Satanic, cannibalistic child molesters" [2] — and you see immediately that one really big thing that drives people is morality. people heard somebody committed a crime once, and they got really mad that crime exists, so they want to take control of society to prevent crime. kind of exactly what Kant says, in a weird way. the recent push to release the Epstein files probably did a lot more to stem QAnon than anything prior to that, because it operated directly on the fear of crime and told people where the criminals are.

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• R.D. does not support having a QAnon movement.
• R.D. would not prefer Q25,88 to be true.
• R.D. predicts Q25,88 to be false.