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former QAnon believer tell his story
WaPo ^ | Oct 24 | Travis M. Andrews

Posted on 10/25/2020 9:31:48 AM PDT by RandFan

Jitarth Jadeja was already deep into conspiracy theories when he first heard of Q.

One day in December 2017, he tuned into Infowars, the media outlet run by the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. Two guests on the radio show were talking about the "calm before the storm," a reference to an absurd theory that President Donald Trump will soon wage a secret war against a cabal of Satan-worshiping pedophiles and a slew of other evildoers. It's one of the many tall tales believed by followers of the movement called QAnon, ranging from the false claim that the government created vaccines to track citizens to the ridiculous idea that Hillary Clinton and Katy Perry drink the blood of young children to gain eternal youth.

"It was pretty generic conspiracy theory stuff at the time, but because Alex had them on his show, it gave them an air of legitimacy with alternative media," said the 32-year-old Sydney resident in a phone call late last month. He was hooked. For the next 2½ years, he closely followed the movement, spending hours each day devouring as much Q-related content as he could find.

This isn't a story Jadeja necessarily wants to tell. Not really. He's moved on, recently founding a data analytics venture. He can look back at it with some humor. When asked if he had a partner, for example, he replied, he "didn't have a significant other during QAnon, surprise surprise, and if I did I doubt I would've held on to them very long."

Still, "it's kind of embarrassing." But, he reasons, if telling it prevents anyone else from falling down the same dark and twisted rabbit hole he did, then the potential humiliation is worth it.

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1 posted on 10/25/2020 9:31:48 AM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

What the hell is a Jitarth Jadeja?

Damn the globalists who flooded our nation with things like this.


2 posted on 10/25/2020 9:33:57 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: RandFan

You must really be desperate if you are resorting to using the the completely fake WP to push an agenda.


3 posted on 10/25/2020 9:34:44 AM PDT by Revel
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To: RandFan

Hmmmmm....

Seems to be working out in a certain way.

“President Donald Trump will soon wage a secret war against a cabal of Satan-worshiping pedophiles and a slew of other evildoers...”


4 posted on 10/25/2020 9:34:44 AM PDT by 2banana (Common ground with islamic terrorists-they want to die for allah and we want to arrange the meeting)
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To: Revel

I’ve got no agenda...


5 posted on 10/25/2020 9:35:35 AM PDT by RandFan (3C)
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To: RandFan

Look at the bigger picture......

Q is a group of anonymous people. It is a library of data from many sources. Half is garbage, half isn’t. The important part is it offers a united place to find or dismiss data. It spawned many twitter/fb/youtube personalities. Whether you agree or not, it is not controlled by DC or MSM.

Last month the majority of the house (both parties) labeled Qanon a terrorist group. That should tell you everything you need to know. Thus Twitter/fb/youtube purged thousands just for mentioning Q.

Bottom line, it united those seeking data. And DC is terrified of it.


6 posted on 10/25/2020 9:46:19 AM PDT by Moe-Patrick (If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.)
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To: RandFan
The best lies are always rooted in truth, they say.

And I'm not saying Q-anon are liars - there is truth in what Q says, but it's distorted, misinterpreted, sensationalized because it's not definitively stated.

If you have the truth, let's hear it - not some allegorical fairy tale. That's useless to me.

7 posted on 10/25/2020 9:49:21 AM PDT by ZOOKER (Until further notice the /s is implied...)
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To: Moe-Patrick

The Hunter Biden laptop videos give some credence to the Q theory of pedophilia in high places, esp. in the swamp of DC.


8 posted on 10/25/2020 9:52:09 AM PDT by miserare ( Respect for life--life of all kinds-- is the first principle of civilization.~~A. Schweitzer.)
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To: RandFan

>>When asked if he had a partner, for example, he replied, he “didn’t have a significant other during QAnon, surprise surprise, and if I did I doubt I would’ve held on to them very long.”

Gay?

He doesn’t refer to his “partner” as her but as “them”?


9 posted on 10/25/2020 9:57:27 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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To: RandFan

>>Still, “it’s kind of embarrassing.” But, he reasons, if telling it prevents anyone else from falling down the same dark and twisted rabbit hole he did, then the potential humiliation is worth it.

Did the WashPoo show the same level of concern regarding conspiracy theories and influenced elections in 2004 when Myspace and other platforms were overrun with an all encompassing conspiracy theory video that blamed Bush for 9/11 or CBS NEws’ forged Waco National Guard memos that Dan Rather insisted were fake but accurate?


10 posted on 10/25/2020 9:59:53 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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To: RandFan

There is ‘Q’, and there are ‘Anons’. There is no “QAnon.”


11 posted on 10/25/2020 10:01:16 AM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: ZOOKER

The world does not always work the way you would prefer. You can either take it as it comes, or leave it.


12 posted on 10/25/2020 10:01:48 AM PDT by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan)
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To: RandFan

A powerful cautionary tale from Jitarth Jadeja on the perils of reading Q posts.


13 posted on 10/25/2020 10:03:46 AM PDT by TauntedTiger (Political correctness analyst/expert/victim)
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To: Moe-Patrick

>>Q is a group of anonymous people. It is a library of data from many sources. Half is garbage, half isn’t. The important part is it offers a united place to find or dismiss data. It spawned many twitter/fb/youtube personalities. Whether you agree or not, it is not controlled by DC or MSM.

TV Show Barney Miller 1981 - NWO Exposed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y19-mirMGs

Walter Cronkite would be proud to sit at the right hand of Satan if that’s what it would take to usher in a one-world government.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oFS-KT377M


14 posted on 10/25/2020 10:05:44 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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To: a fool in paradise

That’s one of those “gender non-binary” terms, when the collective third-person form is used. So definitely under the homosexual “umbrella”.


15 posted on 10/25/2020 10:07:34 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: RandFan

“ For the next 2½ years, he closely followed the movement, spending hours each day devouring as much Q-related content as he could find.”

He could have been so much more productive, watching porn and smoking crack like Hunter. Or maybe daytime TV...or gaming...yeah.


16 posted on 10/25/2020 10:07:47 AM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast (Make Orwell Fiction Again)
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To: ZOOKER
If you have the truth, let's hear it - not some allegorical fairy tale. That's useless to me.

It's not that simple. You should understand that the baddies watch Q avidly. So if we know, they know.

17 posted on 10/25/2020 10:08:03 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (Your tagline sucked, so it was deleted - Admin)
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To: RandFan

I confess. I used to believe The Washington Post.
I’ve realized they are the 2nd biggest peddlers of disinformation in the free west.


18 posted on 10/25/2020 10:08:42 AM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: miserare

Harvey Weinstein gives evidence that that there is human trafficking (I mean “casting couch”) in Hollywood and it has ties to the Clinton power team.


19 posted on 10/25/2020 10:08:59 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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To: Scott from the Left Coast

>> Or maybe daytime TV

The shrews on ABCDisney’s the View spout conspiracy theories all the time (as fact).

Rosie O’Donnell disputed the 9-11 attack and Whoopi Goldberg is unconvinced we landed on the Moon.


20 posted on 10/25/2020 10:10:42 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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