Escape from QAnon: How Jan. 6 changed one person's path

[Nevilledog]

Link to tweet

Tweet text:

Brandy Zadrozny
@BrandyZadrozny
One year ago, I met Justin, a heavy QAnon believer who had lost friends, his job, and nearly his mind to the conspiracy theory movement. QAnon brought him to the steps of the U.S. Capitol on January 6th. Fortunately, that's not where his story ends.

nbcnews.com
Escape from QAnon: How Jan. 6 changed one person’s path
Justin had come for The Storm. The 30-year-old Brooklynite left in the early morning hours of Jan. 6, 2021, headed to Washington.
11:04 AM · Jan 18, 2022

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/qanon-jan-6-changed-one-persons-path-rcna11276

Justin had come for The Storm.

The 30-year-old Brooklynite left in the early morning hours of Jan. 6, 2021, headed to Washington. Then-President Donald Trump had called his supporters to rally in protest of the election results, but Justin believed Trump had united his most dedicated followers for something bigger: the culmination of a secret war against an elite cabal of child abusers.

Politicians, Hollywood actors, philanthropists and prominent journalists would be arrested en-masse, he thought. President Joe Biden’s win would be overturned, the military would take over, and Justin would be there to see it all go down.

It would be a validation of QAnon, the far-reaching conspiracy theory movement to which Justin had dedicated much of the last three years with increasing intensity. The truth would finally get out, Justin thought.

“After that, all the world would be liberated, everyone would be happy,” Justin recalled thinking.

The Judgment Day that Justin anticipated would, of course, never come to pass. Like tens of thousands of others who had subscribed to some piece of the QAnon conspiracy theory, Justin would be disappointed at the Capitol, as he was after the November election, and at countless other moments when a QAnon prediction went unfulfilled.

*snip*

[skylucy]

1. Interesting article. Scary too.

[Dorian Gray]

2. I appreciate

Justin unloading his belief system here and letting people see/learn from his experience.

Some people would feel deep shame and try to avoid talking about this... but he's doing a service to many here.