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Wazza [INACTIVE]
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« on: October 18, 2020, 07:06:24 AM »
« edited: October 18, 2020, 07:12:00 AM by Wazza »

81% of Republicans and 80% of Fox News viewers didn't know what Qanon was in March this year according to a Pew Poll (https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/03/30/qanons-conspiracy-theories-have-seeped-into-u-s-politics-but-most-dont-know-what-it-is/). However, according to that same poll 59% of NYT readers, 49% of MSNBC viewers, 47% of Reddit users, 39% of self identified Liberal Democrats, 38% of NPR viewers and 37% of Twitter users had at least some knowledge of Qanon. This conspiracy would have remained nothing more than a fringe belief amongst 4channers and some throwaway primary nutcases (Which is nothing new when you consider that regional undesirable GOP nominations have been hijacked by people ranging from individuals quite left of centre like in the 2008 Montana senate race to holocaust deniers like in that 2018 Illinois house race) without the sensationalism of the press and various segments of social media. This is a weightless issue that has been overblown by a media profiting off voter stupidity and the socially isolating effects of the internet and the current pandemic. RINO Tom's prediction in August was unfortunately but unsurprisingly correct:


Exactly ... then you’ll get your lower-information GOPers going, “Well, I guess I suppose Qanon, because screw those other guys!”

This is more or less our modern politics ... you could get poor and stupid Democrats and Republicans to believe literally anything, given the reach of the Internet. Sad

It should also be noted that despite this article about the GOP "forging a new alliance with Qanon" the vast majority of Republican House members voted in favour of a resolution condemning the conspiracy theory: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/116-2020/h218

146 Ayes, 34 Not Voting, 17 Nays. This doesn't seem indicative of a new alliance to me.
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Wazza [INACTIVE]
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« Reply #1 on: October 18, 2020, 09:51:31 AM »

81% of Republicans and 80% of Fox News viewers didn't know what Qanon was in March this year according to a Pew Poll (https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/03/30/qanons-conspiracy-theories-have-seeped-into-u-s-politics-but-most-dont-know-what-it-is/). However, according to that same poll 59% of NYT readers, 49% of MSNBC viewers, 47% of Reddit users, 39% of self identified Liberal Democrats, 38% of NPR viewers and 37% of Twitter users had at least some knowledge of Qanon. This conspiracy would have remained nothing more than a fringe belief amongst 4channers and some throwaway primary nutcases (Which is nothing new when you consider that regional undesirable GOP nominations have been hijacked by people ranging from individuals quite left of centre like in the 2008 Montana senate race to holocaust deniers like in that 2018 Illinois house race) without the sensationalism of the press and various segments of social media. This is a weightless issue that has been overblown by a media profiting off voter stupidity and the socially isolating effects of the internet and the current pandemic. RINO Tom's prediction in August was unfortunately but unsurprisingly correct:


Exactly ... then you’ll get your lower-information GOPers going, “Well, I guess I suppose Qanon, because screw those other guys!”

This is more or less our modern politics ... you could get poor and stupid Democrats and Republicans to believe literally anything, given the reach of the Internet. Sad

It should also be noted that despite this article about the GOP "forging a new alliance with Qanon" the vast majority of Republican House members voted in favour of a resolution condemning the conspiracy theory: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/116-2020/h218

146 Ayes, 34 Not Voting, 17 Nays. This doesn't seem indicative of a new alliance to me.

So 30% of the GOP House caucus doesn’t oppose them?

"Its fuzzy math!"

Under 26% of Republican congressmen didn't vote aye.*
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