• invo_rt [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Most people aren't equipped to interface with the internet.

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      I have a really Q-pilled coworker and I'm genuinely worried about him sometimes. He's always armed with a pistol. He talks about his neighbors being federal agents. He's told me he never read a book except the Bible, but now all he reads is Facebook. He goes home to his kids and apparently sits in a trance scrolling Facebook for every Qanon meme and conspiracy possible. He comes to me talking about holograms in the sky and failed expeditions in the arctic to uncover 30 foot bones that belonged to giant humans. You can't mention a movie around him or he'll start yelling about all the actors being pedophiles.

      I don't know what to do. He could be normal if he stopped getting on facebook for a few months. China was correct to censor western social media.

      • booty [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        You can’t mention a movie around him or he’ll start yelling about all the actors being pedophiles.

        damn he's just like me

      • MaoistLandlord [he/him]
        hexagon
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        1 year ago

        You can’t really save him without extensive work which doesn’t seem possible unless he trusts that youre qpilled too. I would say either befriend him and hope he doesn’t do anything to you, or find a new job

      • keepcarrot [she/her]
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        1 year ago

        genuinely worried about him sometimes. He’s always armed with a pistol

        I would also be worried for surrounding people

      • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        There's a reason step 0 of cult deprogramming is "get the person away from the cult." Until Facebook/etc are gone from his life, there's not much you could do to have a lasting effect.

      • duderium [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        I don’t know, sounds like the plot to a heartwarming romantic comedy if you ask me.

        • Rod_Blagojevic [none/use name]
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          1 year ago

          Maybe it's a hilarious odd couple buddy comedy.

          "Can a deranged communist and a right-wing patriot hero team up to defeat their liberal relatives in a Thanksgiving dinner argument?"

  • Big_Bob [any]
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    1 year ago

    So quanon is basically becoming a decentralised jonestown?

    • MaoistLandlord [he/him]
      hexagon
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      1 year ago

      More like Order of the Solar Temple cause that one involved members being murdered or committing mass suicides throughout a longer time span

    • Ziege_Bock [any]
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      1 year ago

      "At times the video mirrors those created by people deep inside the QAnon community. "

      The article does not elaborate further. I'm guessing the mental illness and auditory hallucinations play a larger part independent of a grander QAnon mythos journalists might want to pin things on or hype up.

  • CommCat [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    this is a level up from the defence contractor ghoul that killed his wife and kids when Obama was elected.

    https://murderpedia.org/male.P/p/peterson-albert.htm

    • Shoegazer [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      There was a story a few years ago about a defense contractor who imprisoned his daughters in a filthy house for decades and one of them escaped and somehow figured out how to use a phone

      • MaoistLandlord [he/him]
        hexagon
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        1 year ago

        The Turpin family? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wngB9_6Vqbc

        The dad was employed at Lockheed and northtrop

    • old_goat [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      In 2012? If you already survived through four years of Obama surely you can knuckle through four more.

      In September? If he was so worried why didn't he just :vote:

  • MoneyIsTheDeepState [comrade/them,he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Fuck, this one's sad. I was expecting it to be in response to something external, but this one's just a glimpse into the pain present in a culture of systematic spiritual abuse and neglect

    Kid gets homeschooled by MAGA Evangelical parents, and she never gets the help she increasingly needs as she becomes a QAnon-believing adult who experiences deeply unpleasant auditory hallucinations. However much that would suck on its own, she seemed (as so many Evangelicals do) to experience it as demonic rather than a disorder. Meanwhile, she's uploading Q-flavored videos to YouTube that sound like she was experiencing both delusions of grandeur and delusions of a conspiracy against her

    CW extra suicide

    So she tells her mom that she can't do it anymore, and her mom decides to join her. They tell her dad, and he decides to join the pact

    • Shoegazer [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      We live in a country where basic healthcare is either seen as potentially bankrupting or full of demon spirits, and the logical alternative is… suicide

      :doomjak:

    • Bloobish [comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      Honestly one of the key benefits no one realizes about a school system that's linked in with health services via school nurses is to signal for this kind of shit. Schizophrenia and most other mental illnesses most commonly start occurring between the start of puberty and early 30s and so there's a chance to catch this stuff while they are still teenagers (sadly seems she and her family were exceedingly ill equipped to deal with this type of situation).

    • M68040 [they/them]
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      1 year ago

      On one hand I absolutely hate these people for the toll they've taken on my sanity, but on the other hand I almost can't help but feel bad for them when stuff like this happens.

      • Ram_The_Manparts [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Absolutely. This wasn't inevitable, they weren't born like this.

        I think the thing I appreciate the most of becoming a filthy commie is gaining the understanding that people don't end up like this because of some personal failure, but rather that we live in a failed system that drives you insane.

        There is some hope in that, things like this can be fixed.

        • M68040 [they/them]
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          1 year ago

          Not gonna lie, it's gotten a lot harder for me lately. Some sort of fatigue, I think. Just plain getting tired of this shit

  • FourteenEyes [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Did they miss the part of Christianity where suicide is a sin, literally unforgivable due to the death of the sinner?

    • Crowtee_Robot [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      The whole mortal sin stuff is more of a Catholic thing. US Evangelicals are a literal death cult and treat the Bible like some kind of contract full of loopholes to exploit.

        • Crowtee_Robot [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          Luthor: The Church needs to reform. Reformation happens Luthor: NO NOT LIKE THAT!!!

          • FourteenEyes [he/him]
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            1 year ago

            YOUR SHIP SUCKS YOUR SHIP IS TERRIBLE YOUR SHIP IS LITERALLY CANCER FUCK YOU CALVIN

    • MaoistLandlord [he/him]
      hexagon
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      1 year ago

      Usually these cases involve people who think they’re a special case and god will forgive them this one instance

      • FourteenEyes [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Well that is the assumption they hold their entire lives about everything

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      That's more a Catholic dogma. These are the "are you Catholic or Christian?" mentality types that mostly eat slop like the hogs they are and get big ideas about DYING FOR THE MISSION and all that from scraps of secular entertainment digested and processed by the :brainworms: already wriggling around in their heads from prior chuddery. :frothingfash:

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Some kind of pathology, I'm guessing. :kombucha-disgust:

  • Ziege_Bock [any]
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    1 year ago

    Damn, homegirl looked like Macaulay Culkin. Anyway, RIP to this family. Hope they wage a spirit war on the deep state.

    • Llituro [he/him, they/them]
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      1 year ago

      Literally by the looks of it, and not in the leftist sense of trying to explain political conspiracy.

  • elgonzalors [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    That's fucked up, in a decent country they could have access to psychological treatment.