Comment Re:Intentional distraction (Score 1) 190
I always assumed that QAnon was an intentional distraction. That right-wingers created a caricature of what liberals though right-wing kookery would look like, to drive them into a frenzy and distract the left from more important issues.
What seems odd to me is that I have a fairly wide variety of viewpoints represented in my Facebook friends list, from people more conservative than I am (i.e., uncomfortably right-wing) to wacko leftists.
I have heard absolutely nothing -- not one single word -- about this QAnon stuff from any of the moderate-to-right-wing people on my friends list. Nothing. It simply does not exist there.
But I have gotten walls of text from the left-of-center to wacko leftist side, Viewing With Alarm this
Maybe we need more tinfoil hats, but I can't find any actual tin foil. It's all this aluminium stuff.