She’s lucky she didn’t get shot…
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I had hope for a minute there. People have left Scientology or the KKK and genuinely turned against them, trying to make amends, so I’d like to believe it’s POSSIBLE, if exceedingly unlikely, that she could have woken up. But yeah, that’s not what’s happening here.
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Me either. If people have no chance for forgiveness or redemption, then they might as well double down on their awful behavior.
My first recollection of the feeling of embarrassment is around age 4, when my mother had a meltdown at the Ames over buying less than all the remaining fabric on the bolt. She didn’t get help until nearly a decade later, so that wasn’t the only meltdown I witnessed. I can’t imagine how much worse things could have been if it was during today’s circumstances instead of 1985.
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This. If you really want to help, as an “ex” Qanonner, then work with a cult deprogramming group to help convert those currently stuck in the cult.
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So Q is just the GQP. That’s been their whole plan since 1980. Q is just an outgrowth of that (hence why so many GQP politicians are embracing it).
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The linked article and video are not available in my country, apparently.
But from what I can ascertain from the BB post, I’d probably have no sympathy for her whatsoever.
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No, “were” NOT “canceled”. You DID cancel. You canceled your own business to be exact. And no, it was not an evil cult that tricked you into acting that way. It was YOU who acted that way. You weren’t magically brainwashed - you CHOSE that the stupid Qanon beliefs aligned with your own and then you CHOSE to act out on those beliefs.
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pay attention! i am successful! pay attention! i have a great great life! pay attention! i believe in conspiracies! pay attention! my antics have cost me everything! pay attention! i am really sorry i’ve been knocked off my perch! pleasepleaseplease pay attention to me.
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Yes I agree! But I think a lot of people are talking about it as political extremism, not a cult. Of course it is a bit of both, but I think it makes more sense to view as primarily a cult if we’re talking about the true believers, and therefore heavily intertwined with mental health. But complicating things is that it is a cult surrounded by a dirty cloud of cynical political extremists pushing it and supporting it, and taking advantage of it, in both soft and hard ways, when they know it is utter horse shit.
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Well said! And who the hell knows what the foreign state actors are up to using something like QAnon. It… can’t be good.
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The very fact that she thinks she was “canceled” makes me think she doesn’t really see the error in her ways: the loss of her business is framed as somebody else’s collective fault rather than her own shitty beliefs and actions.
Christ, what an asshole.
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I agree in theory, but this lady is not the first person to whom I want to extend forgiveness. There is certainly a way to express genuine contrition and do real work to repair the damage done from your actions, and she hasn’t done either if she slides “I was cancelled!” into her non-apologies.
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The fact she posted this tells me she’s probably not telling the truth. How many hidden Q-anon symbols can you find? It’s a bullshit treasure hunt!
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The problem with that is it requires a true change of heart, not just a PR push and reputation burnishing. There are two indicators that this statement is the latter rather than the former:
- The apology is a nonpology;
- She does not really take ownership of her actions or how they affected others.
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I think that’s exactly right. I’m fine with the concept of repentance and do believe that there should be a path back from the brink for people who actually want to reform themselves, but it’s not the job of the media to make that process easier for her.
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This is from 4 months ago
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Apologies are worth nothing. Atonement must be the touchstone for redemption.
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I mean, honestly, a sincere apology counts for a lot to me in situations like this. Because as easy it would seem to simply use them as get-out-of-consequences-free cards, I notice most people don’t. Instead you get non-pologies and blame shifting like this as a matter of course. Considering that they’re just words, actual apologies that aren’t meant are surprisingly rare.
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