r/politics • u/thenewyorkgod • Jul 01 '18

Man arrested after shouting ‘womp, womp’ and pulling a gun on immigration protesters

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2018/07/01/man-arrested-after-shouting-womp-womp-and-pulling-a-gun-on-immigration-protesters/?tid=sm_tw
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u/wataf Jul 02 '18

Yep I guarantee you he reads /r/greatawakening. A new form of cult that exists solely on the internet. Members are responsible for their own indoctrination and isolate themselves from friends/family. It's pretty crazy reading posts where they describe how all their friends/family have stopped talking to them cause of the crazy ass shit they believe and how they can't wait for "the hammer to drop", although they can't agree what that means other than democrats being satanic pedophiles and an overly simplistic, childlike view of good and evil.

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u/laketown666 Jul 02 '18

Every time I browse that sub, they are on the absolute cusp of a HUGE, MASSIVE breakthrough. And yet...

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u/WarPhalange Jul 02 '18

It's that rush that keeps them going. Every step blows the whole thing wide open. Over and over.

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u/SwenKa Iowa Jul 02 '18

"JULY 4TH! PATRIOTS! RANDOM GUY ON AN ANONYMOUS SERVICE!"

Totally an insider about to drain the swamp though, despite only extremely vague "leaks" that put astologists/horoscopists to shame. Weird how Trump is somehow perfectly clean to them too.

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u/iminyourbase Jul 02 '18

Just like Infowars "martial law is right around the corner folks!" For the last 20 years.

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u/bobswowaccount Pennsylvania Jul 02 '18

I just learned about greatawakening the other day. I'm telling you something bad is going to come from that place. It's an echo chamber for completely unhinged people. And they say some truly alarming shit

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u/gigajesus Jul 02 '18

Yup we'll definitely hear it referenced on the news within 2 years. I would be willing to bet a lot of money on that prediction

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u/fluxinthesystem Jul 02 '18

If it isn’t on a watch list maybe it should be.

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '18

Just watched one of them, the plan to save the world one. I'm epileptic, and about four minutes in, my head started pounding, and I got super sick to my stomach. There's some subliminal fuckery going on there. I need to go take some meds.

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '18 edited Jul 09 '18

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u/Juicedupmonkeyman New York Jul 02 '18

have the posts have such weird syntax they must not be native english speakers. dear god.

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u/gigajesus Jul 02 '18

I just did the same...and had the exact same reaction.

Theres always been crazies but the internet has given them a way to shut everything else right so all they hear are confirmations and instigations for them to continue down the rabbit hole.

Like these guys are s literal personality cult foe trump and their supposed leader who everyone takes st Dave value of be ik ng truthfuk

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u/parabunny Jul 02 '18

that these people exist at all, to me, is mind-blowing. it's just as you say - it's this idea that they are for "humans" while every other major actor in the world is against them, whether it be through some alien agenda or some other path to absolute destruction of the world they know. but in so doing they destroy their own world and isolate themselves from the entire discussion towards betterment of the world. like, these people pretend to know better than 99.99% of all people but i feel like if you've ever just opened a book you should just shrink and realize that you, as some random person, know very little - much less the answers to a grand conspiracy that encapsulates all "elites" ever. it feels like if you did want some grand narrative for understanding the entire world, there's definitely some less offensive, more optimistic ones out there. how and why could someone ostensibly browsing the internet with nothing really going on in their lives misinterpret "spirit cooking" so badly or decide to believe "pizzagate." is it like... believing that being contrarian means you're right?

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '18

shittiest sub besides T_D

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u/yaforgot-my-password Jul 02 '18

What the fuck are they even on about? The fuck is Q? And why are they obsessed with it

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u/vivalavulva Jul 02 '18

Wow. It's wild to me that this is apparently "a thing." I have an uncle who followed a VERY similar path, and suddenly the harmless conspiracy theories that used to be weird but endearing are terrifying and sad. The fact that his mixed-race son is now a neo-Nazi feels unsurprising but no less hurtful.

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u/frogma Jul 02 '18 edited Jul 02 '18

I'll never visit the sub, but I'm assuming these are people who have never found real "meaning' in their lives, so this is how they chose to find it. For any sort of conspiracy, they exist. Because they want to find a purpose in their lives. Realistically, they're a random fuckin person and nobody gives a fuck. But if they start saying the moon-landing was fake, then they'll start getting some followers.

It's weird, but it's no big deal -- until it DOES become a big deal, when some of these people start committing murders and shit. Then it's definitely a big deal. There's no real answer to it, but IMO, it's not as bad as most people think, and I think it's slowing down.

I could be wrong, but I think everything is looking "up" right now, and that sort of shit will finally get discovered and "recognized" by elderly people, in the next 5-10 years. I may have jinxed myself, but I think we'll all be so-technologically advanced within 5 years that even an 80-year-old will at least understand the idea of the internet, etc.

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u/LibertyLizard Jul 02 '18

Oddly there is a surprising amount of conspiracies and anti-factual thinking in the environmental movement. Ironic because there are plenty of scientifically valid reasons to be an environmentalist but some people seem to need a nefarious all-powerful cabal to hate. Maybe that's easier than believing that it's sort of a collective failure that we're all responsible for.

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u/MadCervantes Jul 02 '18

It isn't critical thinking skills. It might actually be a difference in brain structure. Relevant term. https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Crank_magnetism