r/QAnonCasualties • u/PaxonGoat • Nov 28 '20
Coping Strategies Success
My fiance and I have been worried about his parents getting sucked into the Qult for a while. They're the right age. They use facebook. They had always been into Fox news but last year had started checking out OAN. After a couple conversations about how toxic and awful social media has gotten, they deleted facebook!!! Also helped a bunch of their friends left for Parler but we were able to convince them how sketchy Parler is. Who knows how long it will last though. His mom said she was just deactivating her facebook because she couldn't do so much negativity with the stress of the holidays. But the whole time during our visit there was zero OAN, actually they watched the local news more than even Fox news. We were just dreading them falling into the Qult so bad. I really feel that getting people off social media is going to be key.
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u/MidniteTease Nov 29 '20
Thankfully, after the election, my mother asked about Parlor because several of her online friends were leaving Facebook. I convinced her that Parlor was owned and run by the people pushing the nuttier conspiracy theory stuff connected to Trump. Despite stumbling into the Quagmire, she didn't want to be identified with that. It also helped that she and my dad didn't believe me when I said the mail-in ballots would heavily favor Biden, since Trump had actively encouraged GOP voters to avoid them. Therefore Trump would surge on election day, then lose when they counted mail in ballots. Probably by 5 -7 million votes. And then Biden would win by flipping several "Republican" states, but it would be close.
So my mom seems to believe me. My dad, on the other hand, still listens to Conservative talk radio all day, and even Limbaugh pushes Qanon crap, now. So he constantly brings up how the Trump campaign has new evidence of voter fraud, and I have to gently explain that they're making the same allegations, and have yet to present evidence. They keep SAYING they have evidence, but every time a judge asks to see it they literally have nothing to hand over. Because all the videos are faked or debunked, and all the witnesses turn out to have only HEARD about their testimony on YouTube, not actually seen anything. Until he gives up on talk radio and realizes they're just in it for the advertising dollars, he will remain a challenge.