It really doesn't. The QAnon crowd are a very small, rather embarrassing, but very noisy and attention-hungry minority. From https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/07... [cnn.com]:
[In January], the NBC News poll asked voters whether they had positive, negative, neutral or no views of QAnon. A mere 2% held positive views. The rest were either negative (42%), neutral (11%), or weren't sure or didn't know (45%).
You've got me on the numbers. I suppose I let the enormity of the situation influence my perception of scale. As one might do when describing the 40 square foot fire in a 1070 sq/ft house.
To some extent Q anon is getting used as shorthand for the various delusions that animate America's right wing: Trump established his GOP bonafides claiming that there was a giant conspiracy to make Barak Obama look like a natural born citizen when he was actually born in Kenya (he allegedly sent investigators in Hawaii where they allegedly uncovered big things). The whole "stop the steal" scam is another such exercise in appealing to the paranoid delusions of the American Right. So while QAnon is less popular than slightly less grandiose delusions, it shouldn't be dismissed as a "small, rather embarrassing, but very noisy and attention-hungry minority."
They are powerful enough that the GOP is afraid to stand up to them, and counting only the people who think that Hillary Clinton and George Soros eat babies together doesn't tell the whole story.
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Why the fuck should I care about this bullshit?
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It really doesn't. The QAnon crowd are a very small, rather embarrassing, but very noisy and attention-hungry minority. From https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/07... [cnn.com]:
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The last time I checked, Congress had 535 members, and 2% of 535 is considerably more than two.
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You've got me on the numbers. I suppose I let the enormity of the situation influence my perception of scale. As one might do when describing the 40 square foot fire in a 1070 sq/ft house.
To some extent Q anon is getting used as shorthand for the various delusions that animate America's right wing: Trump established his GOP bonafides claiming that there was a giant conspiracy to make Barak Obama look like a natural born citizen when he was actually born in Kenya (he allegedly sent investigators in Hawaii where they allegedly uncovered big things). The whole "stop the steal" scam is another such exercise in appealing to the paranoid delusions of the American Right. So while QAnon is less popular than slightly less grandiose delusions, it shouldn't be dismissed as a "small, rather embarrassing, but very noisy and attention-hungry minority."
They are powerful enough that the GOP is afraid to stand up to them, and counting only the people who think that Hillary Clinton and George Soros eat babies together doesn't tell the whole story.
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