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Related: About this forumHe Predicted Trump's Violence! How Online Trolls Won War For American Minds? w/ Jim Stewartson - Thom Hartmann
An alternative reality game developer recognized the tricks QANON trolls used to take over America - Jim Stewartson joins Thom Hartmann to explain how the crazy QANON conspiracy theories went mainstream. - Aired on 12/05/2024.
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He Predicted Trump's Violence! How Online Trolls Won War For American Minds? w/ Jim Stewartson - Thom Hartmann (Original Post)
Rhiannon12866
Dec 5
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Wonder Why
(4,718 posts)1. They did not win any minds. None of those that voted for Mr. T had any in the first place.
ananda
(30,933 posts)2. I'll say this again.. This was about white supremacy.
The crazy theories took hold bacause all the non whites
took the road of education, empathy, and rational
thinking.
rampartd
(869 posts)4. racism is certaimly a factoer
but many of those 4 chan "early adopters" were incels who blame women for their own inadequacy
and once the evangelists were on board with their "prosperity gospel" the operation became a dangerous cult of personality.
so hate of brown people, women, and the poor ......
rampartd
(869 posts)3. a psychological warfare operation against the american people
a really stupid one at that
but it appears to have been successful
how do we deprogram these people?