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Heimbach is just the most visible of Orthodoxy’s new neo-fascist converts. An even cursory perusal of the “alt-right” web reveals a large and growing love affair between the threatening margins of our modern Western political discourse and the ancient Christian faith of the East. The double-headed eagle appears on internet message boards and Orthodox crosses adorn the necks of thugs. What the response of the institutional Church to this courting will be is still yet to be written. Arguably, thus far, it has not been swift, public, or bold enough, because it has not been enough to stop it. If Orthodox churches, in America and abroad, only object to fascists in their midst when it becomes publicly embarrassing, then unflattering internet memes are just the least of our problems.

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We feel it’s important to recognize these terms and their relationships to each other as they’re part of a growing language. Studying how this language is used will help increase awareness of conversations listing toward conspirituality in terms of content and emotional impact. Understanding this newly-formed vernacular also helps people recognize when they’ve left the land of information.

Parallel to high-emotional impact, these terms share low-definitional precision. Red pill, 5D, and starseed mean many poignant things to a spectrum of passionate users. This allows for the power of poetic suggestiveness. But it also lets speakers constantly move goalposts and express plausible deniability (i.e.: “No, I’m not talking about that. How dare you suggest I’m using anti-semitic / anti-vaxx / pro-Q language!”).

Jargon is not meant to convey data, share perspectives, or persuade. Its function is to establish a symbolic or ritual order where certain questions can no longer be asked and to provide a threshold test for admittance to an in-group. Users bond over these terms, but not necessarily because they share consistent definitions of them. The bonding happens because the terms signal the sharing of emotional contagion.

Robert Jay Lifton’s famous analysis of “totalist” language is useful here. Lifton’s work has been used for 60 years to describe language that protects itself from scrutiny or analysis as it builds social and political power.

The language of the totalist environment is characterized by the thought-terminating cliché. The most far-reaching and complex of human problems are compressed into brief, highly reductive, definitive-sounding phrases, easily memorized and easily expressed.

Totalist language, then, is repetitiously centered on all-encompassing jargon, prematurely abstract, highly categorical, relentlessly judging, and to anyone but its most devoted advocate, deadly dull.

Lifton, Robert Jay. Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: a Study of “Brainwashing” in China. W.W. Norton, 1961. pp. 429-30.

Reading these terms is one thing, but it’s also worth noting that Lifton’s descriptions of “thought-terminating” repetitions that are “easily memorized and easily expressed” attain new intensity when the influencer deploys them in video format. Combined with hypnotic rhythms and intrusive eye contact, the pre-cognitive impact of the terms ramps up.

When the influencers we’ve studied on this podcast use these terms, they usually also deploy techniques that emphasize relational power over verbal meaning. Altogether, the vaguely-defined but powerful terms can combine with high-def video and sonorous, prayer-like sermonizing to create an immersive and bonding experience.

Finally, it’s prudent to pay special attention to those influencers who can seem to turn this on and off at will. Some of the most powerful and seemingly credible communicators of CS-to-Q are “renegade” medical doctors that are able to flip into sermon mode and use this jargon as a kind of release valve in the midst of their more boring and complicated health ideas.

Part of what they’re doing is weaponizing the complexity of medicine against an anxious public. Their sermons are calibrated to soothe the very anxiety they provoke.

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I'm ex-pizzagate / right-wing follower, I want to help others understand how people in conspiracies feel

There are a few posts on this subreddit from people who are ex-qanon. Even though I never followed this conspiracy, I used to be into pizzagate during Trump's first term around the time he was elected in 2016. I wanted to share my experience to help people affected by QAnon to choose how to act in their relationships. I'm not from US and I'm not a native speaker.

I think a precondition for all of this is some kind of unresolved trauma and mental health issues. I was dealing with anxiety, depression, ADHD, and some panic attacks here and there. On top of that, I was kind of an asshole to begin with, with dark triad personality traits showing: narcissistic, manipulative, revengeful etc. I never had any relationships and I was really good at alienating people. I rarely see people in good mental health (even though it's so rare nowadays) to be invested in any conspiracies. In fact, I don't recall any that I know personally.

So, it all started on reddit. It began with stumbling upon a few "alternative" subreddits, you know those with prefixes "real", "anarchy", "true", etc. To this day I'm still not sure what triggered the hate spiral in me. I think one of possibilities is that any unresolved conflicts are channeled in anger and negative energy.

There are ways to use those conflicts in other ways, for example art and creation is often a result of sublimation, but this is considered a "mature" defence mechanism and it still requires some effort.

Hate, however, is easy, especially when there are so many communities online offering hate in a ready-to-eat form.

Nowadays I think there's a link between this up/down voting system and hate; I feel like direct influence on content visibility allows people invested in extremist movements to religiously bring more and more of such content to be discovered by others, brigade social media platforms, and so on. I think hate gives an incredibly strong motivation for doing what might initially appear as a mindless and repetitive task.

Anyway, I became a part of this toxic system. I wasn't feeling better, no, but seeing someone posting a meme about (ugly name deleted --C) or (ugly name deleted--C) would trigger some kind of a hormone response that fed the addiction.

A lot of people describe their relatives watching qanon videos all day -- know that they're essentially on an IV drip of some stuff they crave.

I have no idea how it works inside body, but I'm willing to bet there's a physical response to this behavior.

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QAppAnon, the online name of qmap’s creator, also runs a Patreon account, which receives more than $3,000 a month in donations, according to the Patreon site. In March, QAppAnon announced on Patreon an upcoming Android app named “Armor of God,” a social network for followers of QAnon.

In Armor of God’s Google Play Store profile, the service describes itself as a platform “designed for patriots worldwide to create and share content including prayers, news, memes and posts.” The developer’s email address listed on the Google Play page is “support@patriotplatforms.com.”

.. After a Bloomberg News investigation, the Armor of God app was no longer accessible on the Google Play store.

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Posted byu/TiredofQue
1 day ago
GoldCoin GiftPlus OneFaith In Humanity Restored
A subject I want the media and reporters to emphasize in their reports about QAnon

For all media who are here and looking for information, here is one thing that I personally think is important about QAnon that I haven't seen reported on yet.

The pornographic content posted and the attitude displayed by the people who frequent the Q boards, all the 'patriots' and 'bakers' and 'dedicated anons'.

The data from Q or the "Q drops" are getting cleaned up and presented to people on youtube, instagram and facebook, and the horrible content of the 8kun board is getting sanitized away.

I feel like some of these mothers, grandmothers, conservative christians and the like would not be so fast to buy into all of this stuff if they were on the actual board on 8kun, and wading through all the negative stuff there.

Any journalists who haven't been to the actual 8kun boards (because it requires using a Tor anonymizer browser and going on the dark web) are doing themselves and this story a disservice. You owe it to your readers to get on the 8kun site and see the real boards. There is a reason that QAnon is from the chans and kuns. Their content would never make it through the content filters on facebook, youtube or instagram.

here are the things I have seen that drove me away and made me refuse to believe in a lot of this stuff.

Pornographic pictures of young white women, posted up as 'rewards' for the hardworking anons who are online scrolling through the boards all day and 'saving the children'. And if you ask the board if all the women in these pictures are verified to be over 18, and verified to have willingly given their nude photos to be used as 'rewards' for the bakers and patriots, the answer is no. Just try asking and you will be chased off the board with insults and nasty remarks.

Porn in general - pornographic pictures and videos are posted all day long of various sex acts and things like people having sex with animals. There is also revenge porn dedicated to 'punishing' white women who have 'bred' with other races.

constant memes and insults to just about any group other than white christian men. Jews, blacks, gays, trans, feminists, sjws, and they use really awful terms.

Mocking posts where they do things like post pictures of the wives of congresspeople, and use doctored photos to make them look as ugly and masculine as possible, with the joke being 'ha ha that dude is married to a guy!'

Spend some time on that board and see the torrent of hate, prejudice, anger, and porn that cascades all day long as these men spend 18 hours day scrolling through the site.

It seems to me if you are on a noble mission to save children from pedophiles and sex trafficking, that one of your first rules should be no porn on your rescue board!

If people could see what goes on on the real Q board, and see the inconsistencies between and how these people act, and what they claim to want to stop, this would help others see through the lies.

I am afraid that the sanitized version of Q's message that is being filtered out through other sites is tricking people that wouldn't be tricked if they saw the truth of the QAnon home boards.

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SavedByHisMercy
25 points ·
1 day ago

Hi OP I have a question, what is 8kun and what are chans and kuns? My mom is super into this stuff but I haven't heard of what you've mentioned before. Could someone explain?
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zystyl
42 points ·
1 day ago

Chans are image boards for japanese comics and animated videos. The original english one was 4chan.org The owner added lots of other boards over time, and the culture revolved around being anonymous. Lots of old memes and jokes came from 4chan, but there was also a lot of pedo content, sexual content, and eventually /pol came around.

It ended up being the basis for what became the racist sexist alt right.

Eventually the original owner sold 4chan. New owner wanted it to be marketable so split off some of the more fringe content. Things like the /pol that all the qanon posts came from got banned so they magically moved to something called 8chan.

8chan got taken down as (I believe) a terrorist threat. At that point it seems like it went onto the tor network under the 8kun brand. Tor is famous for things like silk road drug sales, and pedos. There's a lot of good things there too though, so don't misunderstand the whole network.

Tor is pretty easy now. You just download the Tor Browser Bundle from the website and it's plug and play. I'm sure most journalists already use similar software like otr so should be familiar with the concept.

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fishspit
159 points ·
1 day ago

I agree! One way that people get knocked out of extremist groups is by being exposed to the more extreme parts of the ideology “too early”. Radicalization and indoctrination are gradual processes, so throwing a Qanon person into the deep end too soon might just shock them, and send them on a path back to the real world.

Journalists need to pull back the curtain and show people where this shit comes from. It’s not pretty, and the people deserve to know about that.

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WrongYouAreNot
78 points ·
1 day ago

I couldn’t agree more. I’m not sure if it’s within polite boundaries, but it might be worth emailing some of the reporters who have shared their information with the community that might be receptive to this. I think it needs to get out, and more stories of “My mom and I don’t speak because we have differences of opinion” aren’t going to cut it.

This conspiracy is based on radical extremism and I doubt most of the Twitter/Facebook side of the followers have any idea where these drops are actually coming from. Even the way some of the more thorough articles depict the phenomenon can often be described as more “Hey look at this nutty conspiracy theory and the kooky people who believe it” more than “This is a white supremacist cult that is forged through posts of pornography, white supremacy, hate, and violence.”

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rilobright
26 points ·
23 hours ago

Yeah how does no one realise the absurdity of an anti-paedo crusade starting on an imageboard known as a hotbed for paedos (and white supremacists, and misogynists, etc)? Or just the ridiculousness of a top level military intelligence agent using a greasy anime board to communicate with the public? It's beyond obvious that this is a prank that's gotten out of hand.
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PauseAndReflect
11 points ·
23 hours ago

I’m not totally convinced it started as a prank. I almost feel like it’s an extension of the Meme Wars.
Continue this thread
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TacoBoppinKropotkin
17 points ·
1 day ago

not to mention the fact that 8chan was fucking FULL of pedo-porn back when.
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PoliticalNerd87
18 points ·
1 day ago

That is disgusting. This made me sick.
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transfo47
16 points ·
20 hours ago

Absolutely. I don't get how these Christians who scream over sex scenes in movies dedicate their lives to a guy from the CHANS of all places. They're literally some of the most unholy places on the net.

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An_Odd_Tree
5 points ·
12 hours ago

If I could upvote this 1000x I would!

The moment I went from thinking this was some new conspiracy theory to seeing that it was a fucked up pedo cult was when I went to the boards and saw the pornography for myself. At that time, in 2018 (I haven't been there since then), the boards were also ripe with child pornography. People would post it on the boards as "research" to try to determine if the person involved was hillary or not. It was then that I realized. This is not research. These people are sick.

I honestly believe that a bunch of the q pushers are pedophiles. Not even projecting, just actually being creeps and trolling. It's so fucking sick.

I tell people this, but its true that Most q believers haven't been to 8chan. They just watch youtube videos and think they have it all figured out. But the people who know what this is about and still push it are a special kind of fucked up human. Thanks for pointing this out. You said it very well. Much better than I can. When I talk about this stuff I'm literally so disturbed by it that I get fucking angry and probably dont communicate so well.

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I think I was brought on a “girls trip” to be brainwashed. Thoughts?

UPDATE 2: It is now 7:00PM here on friday evening. I was able to get out of the cabin yesterday. My fiance showed up and knocked on the door and when I opened the door he told to get into the truck and he went to grab my things. I had packed everything up under the pretense of cleaning my sleeping area. He was in the cabin for a few minutes and when eventually got into the vehicle he wouldn't tell me what had been said but I knew there had been words thrown around.

A few people had asked why I didn't assert myself more and demand they stop with the Q bullshit. I did. At the beginning I did ask for them to stop with all politics talk. This was obviously dismissed. My mother said that their talk wasn't political. A few people have also scoffed that I would mention being in any physical harm. I don't know how many crazy cultists you guys deal with but this was my first time, and I wasn't sure what was happening or what could happen. My mother knew I did not hold any of her beliefs as she had previously tried to talk to me about some Q stuff and I shut her down asap. There was something about the atmosphere in that cabin that just turned my stomach and I cannot place it but it made me feel afraid.

I slept in late today and have spent the day trying to understand what happened. Nothing about it was violent but it WAS deeply sinister. After reflecting and reading comments I do believe they were trying to bring me over to their "side." My stomach feels sick just thinking about how everything happened. I still struggle trying to comprehend everything. On the drive home my fiance pointed out they had gaslit me and used cult tactics to destablize me. The cabin was an open loft type of cabin and they would stay up late even after I had said I wanted to go to sleep. I would be in my bed pretending to be asleep but also just listening to them talk Q until 3AM. The next day I would be tired but I guess they would be too.

This will probably be my last update. I have to figure out how to mourn my still living mother and make sense of everything that transpired. Although I am very open to any resources anybody might have that would help with the process. I have not been contacted by my mother or my aunts since I left, which makes me believe they were guilty of what I was expecting. I want to thank every person that reached out to me and offered any advice. I would have never thought I would be in an absolutely bizzare situation like this. I am not going to delete this post for the time being in hopes that it helps anybody else who might find themselves in a similar situation.

UPDATE: The time is 5:39 PM here and the idea was floated to stay a couple more days. I refused to accept this and I demanded that we leave at the agreed upon time. I found service and was able to contact my fiancé and informed him of the new plans. He left work early and is driving to get me. My family does not know he is coming. I am not worried about him not being able to take me. He is nearly seven feet tall and 350 pounds and my mom is scared of him. I am playing it cool and not letting anybody know he is coming. A few people made it clear I needed to leave and soon. I didn’t realize how fucked up the situation was and I thank everybody for their advice and for reaching out. I will update again when I can.

I am sorry if the formatting of this is odd, I had to write this post out on notes and paste it in.

So my mom (56/f)has always leaned far more right then me(29/f). We have had our disagreements in the past and even went a couple years without speaking because of a comment she made about a close friend of mine. She came back into my life when she apologized about two years ago and I accepted her apology. Within the past year though I have noticed a massive uptick in far right postings and comments on her Facebook. My fiancé and I are both vocal supporters of black lives matter and do not believe any of the qanon bullshit. Whenever I would post to my “story” on Instagram regarding any of the worlds current events she would post to her Facebook a post refuting why Covid isn’t a thing, or why George Floyd died of fentanyl poisoning instead of police brutality. I decided not to engage and would shut down any of her attempts to bait me on any of the topics. We have been coexisting quietly with me keeping her at an arms length.

But about a month ago my mom approached me about taking a girls trip with her and some of my aunts and some of my cousins into a popular Rocky Mountain town to “get away”. I wasn’t overjoyed about the idea of going away with some of my least favourite people so I made a few excuses why I couldn’t go. My mother continued to badger me until I said fine.

Four days ago we were packing up to leave and putting our bags into my moms car (I also noticed her new qanon sticker on her rear window) when I asked where everybody else was, my mom then informed me that a few of my aunts and all of my cousins couldn’t get time off. So it was just going to be me, my mom, and two of my aunts. I immediately started to feel uneasy and informed my fiancé of this change. He also felt uneasy and told me not to go. I decided not to listen to my gut and went anyway.

The car ride into the mountains was quiet and I spent most of it “sleeping” while listening to my music. But then we arrived and I found out they had a rented a literal cabin in the woods that was far from the main town we were supposed to have been staying in. My bags weren’t even out of the Jeep when the talk started. My mom started talking to my aunts about the usual qanon topics which is something she used to never do in front of me. Then I realized my two aunts who were also with us were just as deep into the qanon shit as my mom was.

They started playing videos and audio they said had to deal with the trafficking of kids for adrenochrome. We are in Canada but they said if joe Biden gets in next election the world will end, they even talked about how they were thinking of committing voting fraud in the states to ensure a trump presidency. Every musician and actor is a pedo and when I am asked what I am listening to I almost always get a reply “they are involved and you shouldn’t listen to them”.

This has been going on the past few days and I have been hesitant to call it what it is but I believe they brought me here to attempt to “reprogram” me. There is next to no cell service at the cabin but when we went into town yesterday I got away for a little while by claiming to need to buy some toiletries. Really I went into a Starbucks and called my fiancé and told him everything. He knows i can’t go home and advised me not to do anything to upset them because we really dont know how far they will go. I have been letting everything go in one ear and out the other as much as possible. They attempt to bait me into arguments but I literally just pretend not to have heard them. I know if I engage they will become irrational and incoherent. My mother has also started playing audio from some sort of YouTube series at night that deals with the trafficking of children for adrenochrome. I have a white noise playlist on my phone so I literally just listen to that all night.

Right now we are in town and I am sitting on a toilet in this restaurant while they are outside. I am hurt that my mother would do this to me but honestly I am more upset that I didn’t see this coming. I believe she is too far gone to be saved and when I get home I am going to discontinue contact with her. She knows my fiancé and I have been trying to get pregnant and had mentioned yesterday that I needed to “awake” before I had kids so I could protect them like she was trying to protect me.

Does this seem to be an attempt at “reprogramming”? Am I being overly sensitive? Has anybody else dealt with something like this?

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thepoopinthesky1
211 points ·
5 days ago

I am just going to leave this here. I am worried that this trip will be extended into the weekend and no matter what I say my thoughts will be dismissed. I contacted my fiancé and he knows the rough location for the cabin. If the trip is extended again any more nights he is going to come and get me with a couple of our close friends. We have agreed that tomorrow I’ll send him a message by the time we are supposed to leave and if we haven’t left by then he will come and get me. Thank you for all your messages. It’s good to know I am not being overly sensitive and my suspicions are correct. I’ll respond when I can but for now I am going to spend as little time writing so I don’t make them suspicious.

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hepoopinthesky1
47 points ·
5 days ago

Originally I was told we were leaving tonight but apparently everybody wants to stay another night so we are leaving early tomorrow morning.
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justanotherlidian
26 points ·
5 days ago

to figure out a way to get to the airport or somewhere public you can stay for a long period of time if you need friends or your fiance to get you.

I think most likely you will probably just spend the rest of your time with your headphones in and uncomfortably avoiding the topic. I'm really sorry you're going through this. It sounds like a total nightmare.
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MeowMeNot
10 points ·
5 days ago

Enterprise Rent a Car will come and pick you up.
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mmnuffin
7 points ·
5 days ago

I'm in BC as well - does the town you are near have a shelter where you can hunker down until your husband can come to get you? I'm happy to help any way I can. Be safe ????
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fishtacos123
12 points ·
5 days ago
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There is no reason to think you're in physical danger, so get that out of your head. My only advice is for you to attempt to push the conversation toward inclusive activities and whenever a topic related to this nonsense comes up, ignore it, as many have mentioned. Ignoring might be perceived as shitty, but pushing for boundaries implied by phrases like "I'm here to enjoy myself on vacation. Thank you all again, this was much needed" is helpful, and keep ignoring.

They're looking for something to get pissed about, so your strongest card here is maintaining the pretense of a getaway and "me" time and showing your appreciation for it.

If they get annoyed and aggravated, continue ignoring, and when inevitably coaxed into a response, just say "no politics or religion, please - this is a vacation". It's the only thing you got and it's disarming as hell.
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Msbossyboots



You could feign the need for a trip to town and just refuse to go back with them.
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leopard_eater
8 points ·
5 days ago

Or feign the need to get home because your partner has a suspected burst appendix, etc.
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HolleringCorgis
7 points ·
5 days ago

Can you download a book (libby, overdrive, kindle) and just read?

Can you stick it out until tomorrow morning?
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thepoopinthesky1
48 points ·
5 days ago

I have no other option at this point. I am four hours away from home, I could probably get a ride to the nearest town and fly home but I don’t know how they would react and I am not sure if that’s something I want to know the answer to.
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UnKaveh
24 points ·
5 days ago

Honestly, it might not hurt to send a message and just leave. I don't know you or your life but if it's possible - just get out and simply and calmly tell them why. They might react but just ignore them and leave.

That's kind of an ideal situation. Showing them that you seriously believe they are wrong and you're not some pushover to be indoctrinated. She's going to try to pull this BS again, one way or another if you keep her in your life.

That being said. I don't know if you have financial dependence with your family. If you're normally super close. All I know is this is a really awful thing to put your daughter or your niece through. This is extremely selfish, thoughtless and mean spirited.
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thepoopinthesky1
31 points ·
5 days ago

Being 4 hours away and at least an hour from the nearest airport is not ideal. I thought about flying home but I can’t afford it and my fiancé can’t leave work to come get me. I can’t take my moms car. I don’t know if I am in physical danger but I am treading lightly until I can go home.
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UnKaveh
18 points ·
5 days ago

Yeah that's where it gets really difficult. I was kind of just hoping you were loaded. I was going to suggest a really expensive uber to the airport.

But that's a ton of money. If you feel in danger or anything, just try to fi

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Straight_Ace
7 points ·
5 days ago

There is all sorts of huge red flags here and I would point to yes this is an attempt at reprogramming. It’s creepy, weird and I would definitely distance myself from them. Get your fiancé and some friends to come bring you home and back to safety before these people try more “invasive” methods of trying to reprogram you.
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bestjeanest
6 points ·
5 days ago

You absolutely are not being overly sensitive! I think that yes, this could be an attempt to "redpill" you. There are specific tactics Qanons share with each other on how to indoctrinate people, especially family/spouses. I am so sorry you have to deal with this. I think your decision to cut off contact now is the right choice.
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limequartz
6 points ·
5 days ago

Please try to get home. QAnon is an actual cult and you don't know what they'll do in the middle of the woods.

Do you have transportation? Can you run away from the cabin and book a hotel somewhere in the nearby town until you can find a way to get home?

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Eternal_Reflection
4 points ·
5 days ago

Wow that sucks so bad, I’m sorry. I can’t relate to the crazy conspiracy parents, but from a stranger’s perspective, I feel you’re justified in cutting contact. It was clearly duplicative of her to bring you on that trip, even if it was with her delusional “best intentions”.

Imo, the comments about you not being ready for parenting is a red line. You can expect her to try to reprogram your kids if given the opportunity. Deal with that as you wish, but wanted to make you aware that is a risk you’ll have to take in order to keep her in your life. I’m so sorry you have to deal with this :

HermesTheMessenger
5 points ·
4 days ago

UPDATE: The time is 5:39 PM here and the idea was floated to stay a couple more days. I refused to accept this and I demanded that we leave at the agreed upon time. I found service and was able to contact my fiancé and informed him of the new plans. He left work early and is driving to get me. My family does not know he is coming.

[you will probably read this later ... but ...]

Good. When he shows up, walk out with a smile and just leave. Do not stop.

I can't say that I have had that level of manipulation but I have had some incidences. For some reason, people think they can read minds when they would be better served talking with each other instead of asserting an ideology.
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Brndrll
5 points ·
4 days ago

First: Thank goodness that you are out of the situation; they didn't have to get violent to hurt you. You are safe now, though!

Second: Have you thought to reach out to any of the family that canceled on the trip? You may not be alone. They may know what's up and tried to avoid it. At worst, they aren't aware and you can intercept the Qult.

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Keywords:


Asgardrei Music Festival Azov Movement National Militia National Corps Stutthof Seigneur Voland Wodulf
Atomwaffen Division The Third Path Party CasaPound Alexey Levkin M8L8TH

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According to Haaretz, Asgardsrei was founded by Russian neo-Nazi Alexey Levkin, a far-right dissident who came to Ukraine in 2014 to support Azov, which has since actively forged links with like-minded groups elsewhere.

A Black Metal Festival in Ukraine This Weekend Is the Neo-Nazi Networking Event of the Year

“2 days, 14 bands, 1,500 places, 0 tolerance,” its website reads.
by Tim Hume
Dec 13 2019,

[www.vice.com]

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Most neo-Nazi Music Festivals Are Closely Guarded Secrets — Not This One in Ukraine

The annual Asgardsrei festival in Kiev is shockingly open about staging far-right bands with anti-Semitic, violent lyrics, yet the mainstream media seems prepared to give it a pass as it returns this weekend.

Michael Colborne (Kyiv) Dec 12, 201

[www.haaretz.com]

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J_Diggy (omitted for privacy - Corboy) • 2 days ago
I think a better question is; what does he (Gavin McInnes) gain from being hated by everyone? At this point it's beyond trolling and has shifted to worryingly obsessive.

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Quan, Huen and Apothecarium communications director Eliot Dobris previously told Hoodline in an interview

[hoodline.com]

that more than 3,000 potential patients could patronize a medical cannabis facility in the neighborhood.

Huen noted that many in the Chinese-American community who are monolingual could benefit from a MCD that could provide services in both English and Cantonese. “There’s a huge underserved community,” Dobris noted.

Much of the opposition from neighbors came after Ark of Hope Preschool hired Pacific Justice Institute (PJI)

[www.pacificjustice.org]

—a religious freedom group known for promoting anti-LGBT laws

[hoodline.com]

—to build opposition to opening an MCD in the community, Quan said.

PJI is listed as a hate group on the Southern Poverty Law Center website.

[www.splcenter.org]