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To: Windflier
".....Fact is, most disbelievers won't waste their time engaging with the faithful, because it always results in gang pile-ons and ad hominem abuse from the Qbists...."

Indeed.

You can always spot someone who has a weak argument when their first reaction is to question the intelligence of their opponent.

If they choose to be followers of the "the great and powerful Oz" that is their personal choice.

Branding others who aren't captivated by the riddles as stupid or lacking common sense reflects badly upon them, but ignoring them is the default choice.

Let them get on with their little cult but don't expect a whole lot of the world to take them seriously. Most of us have better things to do with our lives.

103 posted on 08/02/2018 12:01:37 AM PDT by Sa-teef
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To: Sa-teef
Let them get on with their little cult but don't expect a whole lot of the world to take them seriously. Most of us have better things to do with our lives.

Obviously, therefore, as POTUS INCREASINGLY and increasingly overtly makes clear that Q-Anon operates at his direction with his approval in behalf of his strategies, policies and methods, . . . your response is likely to be something akin to drunken mumbling and that as far from a microphone as possible?

104 posted on 08/02/2018 12:06:12 AM PDT by JockoManning (http://www.zazzle.com/brain_truth for hats T's e.g. STAY CALM & DO THE NEXT LOVING THING)
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To: Sa-teef
Branding others who aren't captivated by the riddles as stupid or lacking common sense reflects badly upon them...

It does, but they don't see it. In fact, that behavior even further cements the perception that they're a cultish fringe group, but they don't see that, either.

Look at this thread. A half dozen Q followers are attacking a fellow Freeper because he's a skeptic. This sort of gangster pile-on happens every time I express my honest opinion on any Q related thread.

I have to ask; who benefits from such division and rancor? It certainly isn't Free Republic, or the Deplorable community at large. At the very moment in our history when unity among us is most urgently required, here comes a movement which has the potential to cleave us in two.

The immediate effects of this division are already being felt on this website. Skeptics and critics are being shuddered into silence by true believers, who tend to gang up on anyone who dares to speak their mind. I have no doubt that the same thing is happening at other conservative gathering places. I just wonder when dedicated conservative patriots are going to start being kicked off forums for not being devout Qbists.

141 posted on 08/02/2018 10:39:26 AM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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