Horatius
NWO Kitty Wrangler
- Joined
- May 9, 2006
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The reasons aren't a mystery of course - Qanon is intrinsically a Trump-supporting worldview, and Trump ordered the detention of the migrant children on military bases, therefore it is good; the young migrant children are, well, law-breaking brown people, so the abuse they suffer isn't outrageous like the suffering of the white American child-victims alleged by the conspiracy theory is. Nevertheless, I find the naked hypocrisy and cognitive dissonance utterly fascinating.
There's also the problem that we saw with lots of 9/11 Truthers: Dealing with real-world problems is actually difficult. It's far easier to solve a made-up problem, since the "solution" literally doesn't matter.
Lots of 9/11 Truthers didn't like the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and they pretended to "fight GW Bush" by "exposing the inside job", which largely involved sitting at home and posting on the internet. Compare that to what it would have taken to actually limit or stop the wars they claimed to dislike: Actually motivating enough voters to oppose the war that you either get Bush et al. to change their plans, or get them voted out of office, so that a new President can stop the war.
Qanon is the same. They can sit at home and brag about how they're "saving the kids" in some fantasy camp, instead of actually trying to convince Trump to change his policies, or get ICE disbanded, or something, anything, real.
Look at Bubba above. He's all smug and satisfied with his "win" over that vague "Justice!" 'prediction'. That's literally all it takes to make him feel like he's doing something, and winning his fight. And it's literally impossible to lose, when your standards for winning are so low. It's the participation ribbon of public service, but they act like it's the gold medal.