Please, stop falling for this.

To know the answer, I would have to understand what cannot be rationally understood.

You think it’d have collapsed with Donald Trump’s election defeat, or even the failed post-election coup attempt, or even Joe Biden’s inauguration, or even the silly nonsense about Biden being deposed *after* his inauguration

And indeed, a few QAnoners have peeled off from the movement after these key events pass and don’t quite turn out as predicted.

But a hardcore element remains, and the conspiracy just keeps getting deeper and weirder

When Ivanka Trump posted on Twitter about “getting her shot” (Covid vaccine), you should have seen them lose their minds, positing instead that Donald Trump had put out an assassination (a “shot”) on his own daughter for treason

Nevermind that there was a literal photo of a very-alive Ivanka Trump staring them right in the face

All their conspiracist games, however, have had the unintended side-effect of red-pilling me into being more sympathetic to Ivanka than I used to be 🤣

I mean it’s hard not to feel for her at least in this respect: Putting out a positive, science- and reality-based tweet like that only to have a sizeable chunk of her followers use it as fodder for grievous misinterpretation — speculating about and practically hoping for her assassination

Because make no mistake, that’s what all this conspiracy crap is: A subconscious projection of their deepest, darkest, most twisted psychological wants.

Ivanka “betrayed” the Q movement by taking and promoting the Bill Gates/Fauci vaccine or whatever they are calling it (nevermind that they were worshipping the imminent arrival of a miracle vaccine mere months ago when Trump was President and boosting it) — therefore, she must pay, in their minds

Here is more of the deep QAnon crap going on right now, broken down by a pour Twitter soul who I hope is at least getting paid to do this

poor*

Sure, it's a fallacy if you use it to try and disprove something entirely (No 'X' is ---- because I know one who isn't). It's not a fallacy though if you're citing anecdotal evidence to blow apart a blanket claim. (Not all 'X' is ---- because I know one who isn't.)

The nature of the internet means we must grant credence to the latter style of claim. Otherwise it's hypocritical to take anything they say seriously, since at that point we're cherry picking truths.

This is in reference to the anti-vaxxers who claim that the vaccine is causing other women to miscarry. As if the vaccine made people contagious and the vaccine itself caused women to be infected with "The vaccine" and miscarry.

I shit you not.

That is, uh....

wow

xD Couldn't have said it better myself!

Special, ain't it?

Ergo my meme:

"If someone is saying the vaccine is not safe because their close relative died or suffered hardship, in this case miscarriage from a vaccine, don't be kind and think:

"I can't prove you wrong because it happened to you and I don't know you."

Instead, think "

"I can't prove that and niether can you. I find it more likely that you're lying because this "proof" cannot be verified."

This will protect you from applying misinformation to your pool of knowledge, and protect you from spreading it as well."

I trace a lot of the anti-vaccine nonsense to Michele Bachmann back when she claimed, during a nationally telecast primary debate, that the HPV vaccine caused mental retardation in young girls. That claim was eventually rebutted bigly, but it nonetheless injected new steam into the anti-vax movement.

No I understand your point and it is a good one.

My point is I try not to preclude out of hand anything that people say just because they say it; at that point I can't take anything they've said seriously without being guilty of deciding who I want them to be, rather than just listening to who they say they are.

Obviously there is no science to back up a claim like the one you mentioned, so yeah I'd dismiss that one immediately.

You have yet to actually supply any truth at all, troll.

Just for the record fringe-left does the same thing

Fringe-left, majority right.. Eh. Yeah, I guess so.

I would disagree, it is fringe-left and fringe-right?

The GOP wanted to censure someone for correctly stating the election was not stolen.

Failure51 is right.

Of course they do, but the right seems to embrace it.

Maybe, but I only argue what I can prove. So there's that.

Do we want to talk about these "Vaccine made my wife infertile, and she wasn't vaccinated!" Stories?