Bump to hearing from Jack. I predict he is still skeptical but is enjoying the show.
To answer your question directly: yes, I believe that Q is real, in the sense that he is connected to Team Trump and is a working in a positive way to fix our broken system via his unique method.
Previously I was unsure if Q was “real” or a prolonged joke by 4-chan hoaxers. There is far too much that Q has brought forward for that thesis to be workable at this point. I no longer doubt that Q is connected to Trump, and I don’t entertain the idea that he’s a 4-chan troll running a hoax.
I still don’t claim to understand Q, or believe that all of his predictions (which, to be fair are often times the predictions of people interpreting him) are correct or likely to happen.
As far as the red-pill, it’s was used originally by the alt-right race realists, so in that sense I have been “red pilled” a lot longer than people who only got into Q last fall. There are many red pills: red pills around race, red pills around gender, red pills around “conservatism” and democracy. Q red pills are only the latest.
I’ve been reading Vox for a long time. On the side of his blog are the “Alt Right: The 16 Points”, which he obviously feels strongly enough to catalog in the 13 languages that they have been translated into.
Do you subscribe to the 16 points? If so you have taken a lot of red pills.