Yeah... open your mind... stop believing what you're spoonfred by the mainstream media and dive into some completely insane stuff on some random website that has a few crazy ideas about the pyramids and, admittedly, it goes a little bit racist with some Jew stuff... but they really know what they're on about when they get on to the US election and covid, don't dismiss it...
What do I do, politely change the subject? Attempt a bit of amateur deprogramming? This is one of the brightest, sharpest brains I've ever known - it feels quite tragic.
This is a good question here that I don't think we've really touched on much in this thread. We've talked about the upside and the chaoitc gains that can (or just about might) come from the study of conspiracies and so on... but we've done a lot less about the more obvious downsides.
And I've been thinking about this a lot at the moment. Specifically with the election stuff and how there may be potential there for the fall-out to help with deprogramming.
I say this cos you have Ellis and Rudy continually claiming that they have mountains of evidence of fraud - but when they go to court they don't even allege fraud (cos of no evidence). To me this feels as though it should be a good one for deprogramming cos at both ends you can access their words with no spin - on the one hand you can go to RG's or JE's twitter account, which are (supposedly) their literal unvarnished words, and on the other hand, you can access the court documents and transcripts and so on.
So anyone who cares can look at Jenna Ellis's twitter where she says something like "The disgraceful activist judges refused to let us produce our huge mountains of evidence of fraud" and then you can look at the court document and see Giuli saying "This is NOT a fraud case, we are not alleging fraud" and no-one can claim it's cos CNN or the MSM or whatever is distorting it, you have a clear lie at the expense of Trump's own supporters. And you would think that this would be caught out straight away, cos a lot of Trumpoids are quite fanatical and read whatever they can (on this subject at least).... but it doesn't seem to be happening as much as you might think.
I have a little feeling that people are deliberately choosing not to look at the court case docs cos they know deep down that reading them will reveal they're being lied to and robbed, right now, by the people they've put all their faith in, invested so much into over the last few years. How do you recover from that?
Trumpism totally is a cult and although now the facts are there, not even via the hated media, but from their own words, but there is absolutely no... I dunno, exit strategy (I mean, no-one is creating an exit strategy to help people out of it) that I know of. No halfway house type thing where people can go and be comforted by other survivors welcoming them back to reality and saying "It's not your fault" while reassuring them by pretending that somehow Trump was really convincing.
The Guardian in fact did do a piece the other day on how to deal if you had a Q-Anon sucker in your family and what you should do but I didn't find it particularly insightful or thought through. Probably was just a buzzword kinda thing that they thought they'd better quickly bosh out something on.