Posted on 09/13/2022 2:21:55 AM PDT by David Chase
Trump didn't either.
This is a red herring. The movement might attract people who are disturbed, though. It doesn't appear to encourage harming others.
However, Antifa actually does encourage threatening or harming others, and its participants arrive at its rallies prepared to be both physically protected or shielded and made anonymous through complete clothing coverage. They also have obvious weapons.
“Q-Anon” people arrive at rallies with plenty of skin showing and possibly a US flag, some face paint, or a cardboard sign. They appear to support the country, while Antifa vehemently hates the country.
However, I do agree some “Q-Anon” people get verbally and even mentally unhinged in dealing with others they wrongly perceive as somehow “evil,” but it hasn't seemed they resort to physical violence against people.
I wasn’t really paying attention while I was visiting my sister, and BIL Sunday afternoon in Walled Lake, but she mentioned that her husband was woken by the gunshots. I didn’t think much of it until I heard it reported on local news the next day. Walled Lake is a nice area, but these things can happen anywhere I suppose.
Anagrams are one of the things that point to a hidden structure within the English language.
Far more pro-mask, pro-vaccine nut cases out there screaming that those not wearing mask and getting vaccines are killing people... Covid Cultist as they’re known here on FR.
i read this too sounds like the guy was crazy and fixated.
No sale, Dave.
Nice try though.
MI6 will remember the effort via your year-end bonus.
I don’t understand your heavily coded comment.
There was a local news story of an awful tragedy with Q, vaccines, and internet mentioned and somehow you feel as if I’m responsible for it?
I guess that’s what happens when one rains on another’s parade.
No refunds BTW.
Obsession about anything can drive one over the edge.
It’s like stalking but not a living person but a thing or topic or lifestyle.
That’s what I was eluding to. She’s upset for good reasons.
However, I can see how someone can become Covid/vaccine obsessed as I have witnessed it here.
I think the mask/vaccine/mandate stuff is now geographical.
In Michigan mask are a thing of the past and no one cares who’s vaccinated or not.
California, that’s a whole other animal.
I don’t see how anti-vaccine views lead to murdering people. The premise of the article is ridiculous.
Substitute vaccine for UFOs, or FBI/CIA spying on you, or even a non-traditional religious belief.
Obsessions are the virus. It could be anything, but in this case it’s leaning towards vaccine fear, paranoia.
“ Funny...his last name is an anagram for SLAIN.”
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Wow. That’s odd. Good catch.
Thank God your Sister and all are safe. These incidents can easily spill out into the neighborhood.
Walled Lake is a nice area.
You are correct, Antifa and BLM are very violent groups.
Q Followers typically are not violent but that stats I read show that if there is a rare act of violence with a Q Follower involved it’s usually domestic.
Which of course this is the case.
Not sure what else to call them except Q Followers. Didn’t think it was negative.
I won’t refer to them as “Anons” because I don’t want to reinforce that mindset or behavior.
I call Bruce Jenner, Bruce Jenner for the same reason.
Blaming something on Qanan is just a convenient scapegoat.
It’s a easy way to demonize and marginalize anyone who does not parrot the democrat party narrative.
Simply accuse them of being Q followers and voila’ suddenly they are red flagged as crazy, far right, extremist, domestic terrorists.
It’s all rhetoric.
The left has found the QAnon cult helpful. If you don’t think your child really should have a Covid vaccine or if you are sure the Democrats cheated and gamed the system in the 2020 election, you are put in the same category as the QAnon Shaman.
The QAnon stuff kept a lot of people busy following a rabbit trail of conspiracy theories rather than doing mundane things like getting out the vote for conservatives. And it discouraged voting because “the conspiracy” controls the votes, there is nothing you can do about it, so stay home and let the socialists win.
IF I were a Russian or Chinese operative, I would consider QAnon, and BLM, Antifa, etc. as all being convenient tools in my toolkit for undermining America. But there isn’t quite an equivalence. QAnon followers might have been involved in one riot. BLM, etc. are behind 500 riots. But it’s all bad.
You just demonstrated what happened in this case.
A man became Anti-Vaccine obsessed. Like you.
He lived it everyday. Like you.
He thought about it before bed, after waking up, while eating dinner. Like you.
His only conversations pertained to the anti-vaccine fears. Like you.
This incident has less to do about your “Big Pharma” mantra and more to do about mental health and how an obsession can eventually push someone over the edge.
I hope, Not Like You.
There are people I have known who are schizophrenic (not saying this case at hand involves this specific illness). They had obsessions with various things and people. One with then Prince Charles and the Gov of PA, one with the Virgin Mary and with Jews. The latter may well have been violent, though I recall more cases of vandalism with him. Then there was a man I knew who was schizophrenic, though he was violent, and would physically attack women.
Was former Ambassador Madeline Halfwit a dangerous extremist? She believed Bush kept Osama on ice to reveal his death when needed for political gain. Is Hillary a dangerous extremist, she still says Russia helped Trump steal the 2016 election.
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