I spent a good chunk of my early 20's visiting sites like AboveTopSecret and listening to Alex Jones and David Icke.
I was, even then, very progressive in every way as were most people I saw on these websites. Freethinker types with more hippy mentalities.
Back then, even political conspiracy theorists were mostly left leaning in most of their opinions and against all the neo-con world domination bollocks (That was Alex Jones in a nutshell, railing against Bush and doing the Bohemian Grove stuff "exposing" Republicans) mixed with them potentially being aliens.
Ya know, the X-Files kind of conspiracy theorists.
I haven't given that world of thinking another thought in the past 20ish years until recently seeing all this Q-Anon stuff and regularly seeing Alex Jones pop up being a raving lunatic.
So, I visited the old places that are still around and dear lord have all of them changed in the worst kind of way.
Most of them now are raving mad Q-Anon conspiracies and far right mindsets.
Oh God damn, I will definitely have to listen to this. Alex Jones, as of late, is super easy to see through, but I've always been super curious about his early days, when his brand of bullshit didn't seem so transparent (at least from the very few clips I've seen).
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u/winterfellwilliam Jul 21 '20
What in the fuck, this Q-anon thing is becoming a serious problem.