Sounds to me like she’s using the QAnon nutters to further her political agenda even as the article states she’s now trying to distance herself from them. Playing both sides. You have to be be an extremely paranoid individual to actually believe and act on what that extremist group is peddling.

 

While I agree that extremists on both sides are never good there are some major differences. QAnon beliefs are rooted in fantasy but can also have destructive and violent results as well. Remember Pizzagate? It had very real consequences for one innocent business owner.

https://www.inc.com/magazine/201707/burt-helm/how-i-did-it-james-alefantis-comet-ping-pong.html

But if we’re lumping right alt groups together, like people want to lump Antifa groups together, we have to look at some of the violent acts of those groups and individuals belonging to those groups OR who hold similar beliefs that they have to “fight” those they think oppose them politically. Then we can add in gunmen that have shot others such as Kyle Rittenhouse others.

https://www.businessinsider.com/extremist-killings-links-right-wing-extremism-report-2019-1

I would say the majority of alt left groups tend more towards property damage. Pulling down a statue because it daily rubs their collective noses in the fact that southern generals or whoever, fought to keep their ancestors in chains for instance.
Some are opportunists who will smash and loot stores. Others feel that occupying a building that houses the very group they’re protesting against (police etc) is a way to force change quickly.

As the population in general becomes Increasingly polarized you’ll see more of this. It used to be we saw that we had more in common than we had differences. It used to be that we worked through channels and peaceful protest to effect change. I don’t know if we’ll ever get back there. Social media, a very poor example of civility in Washington, and a refusal to be led by facts, scientific or otherwise, could very well lead to dark times ahead. Perhaps the grand experiment that was and is the United States is destined to implode. I sincerely hope not.

 

When are people going to realize that if you have wild thoughts because you’re frustrated, etc. you don’t express them in a media form that can be widely disseminated. That’s what your close friends are for, lol, if you have to let off some steam. Certainly not while you’re at work.

 

Another article about what it’s like to be involved with someone who becomes a QAnon Believer....

Excerpt....
But those numbers are only part of the story. They don’t show the impact the delusion has had on people and their relationships. So, we asked our readers to tell us about the QAnon believers in their lives. Nearly 200 did. Respondents, who mostly said they lived in the United States, ranged in age from 16 to 82. Here’s what you said.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/janelytvynenko/qanon-families-friends

 

That's what bothers me the most, the loss of reality. You can't come to terms with people if they're living in a fantasy world. After 9/11 we had the insane Truthers who thought it was an inside job and that the towers weren't brought down by the planes, but explosives. Their mantra was "jet fuel can't melt steel beams." Of course these people were on the fringe.

Then after Sandy Hook, Alex Jones started the whole thing that there wasn't a massacre of school kids, but there were "child actors." It was so bad that the his followers even harassed the parents who lost their children. Again, this was scary stuff, but on the fringe.

Then we got the Obama Birther insanity led by Trump that helped catapult him to the nomination. That should've been disqualifying in any sane country.

So now it's moved into the mainstream where you have Trump just making stuff up and creating a separate "reality."

While Biden winning is the antibiotic that kills the Trump bacteria, the problem is much bigger. The entire immune system is compromised and other ailments will arise.

It reminds me of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire. You have periods of restoration, but they're temporary. I wish I could be more optimistic about all of this, but I just don't see a way out in the long term.

 

There's a Youtuber that I watched for Walking Dead reviews. He didn't show any signs of being crazy. He just discussed the show and provided ratings of each episode like we've done here.

Then during the pandemic, when there were no shows, he suddenly went completely nuts. He started posting videos about the Illuminati and how Bill Gates caused COVID to create a vaccine. A lot of Deep State insanity too. I just unsubscribed, but it was unsettling to see someone just unravel that showed no signs of it prior.

 

So, you think armed ult right nut jobs who shoot people do “far less damage” than the ult left vandals. I wonder if the families of those killed would agree.

 

I wonder if he was in deep before the pandemic or if having limited outlets during lockdown he let himself get sucked in. Sad.

 

He couldn've been into it prior to the pandemic. No way to know for sure. It was just striking because he only discussed TV and movie stuff before. If I watch things on Youtube it's only entertainment related stuff, so if he'd even dipped his toe into it before I would've unsubscribed. If there's anything political on Youtube I take the approach of the well written Jon Snow character from Season 8 of GOT, "I dun wan it."

 

Just because this is Walker’s opinion doesn’t make it a correct assessment. I didn't even know who the guy was until you posted this so I looked him up. Sounds like a right wing nut job to me which is why he’s “the only one coming up with this”.

 

I think you’re mistaken. According to ADL (Anti Defamation League) report in Jan. 2019 for the year 2018 (i don’t know if they have the figures for calendar year 2019 yet):

white supremacists were responsible for the great majority of extremist-related killings in 2018, which is the case almost every year. Right-wing extremists were responsible for 49 (or 98%) of the 50 domestic extremist-related killings in 2018, with white supremacists alone accounting for 39 (or 78%) of those murders. Anti-government extremists (primarily sovereign citizens) were responsible for eight (or 16%) of the deaths.

https://www.adl.org/murder-and-extremism-2018

Do you have the figures on how many BLM protesters killed people?