Huntdown the freeman 4chan5/20/2023 We need more psychologists and ex-extremists to talk about why people feel hopeless enough to believe in global conspiracy theories. I cover this stuff for a living and even I don’t have the answers, but I know who to ask. We’re going to have to learn to create a vocabulary to talk about how their friends fell down the wrong YouTube hole and came out speaking another language. It’s going to be a rude awakening in the next few months as we find out which of our friends got sucked into truly astonishing tales of New World Orders and Great Resets that helped them cope - and just so happen to be spectacularly wrong. The news should be providing that defense.Ī lot of America slipped into conspiracy thinking during this pandemic, and they got there from yoga Instagrams and NFL forums and private church choir Facebook groups that were systematically invaded by QAnon and anti-vax recruiters. A hydra of Ruby Freemans, whose actual identities they’ve shucked and discarded for fame and profit. Bad actors have been building fantastical, tremendous tales with truly villainous bad guys. (If this country can’t reach herd immunity and I can’t hug my grandmother ever again because VinyasaFlow360 has tremendous engagement, who do I blame: my friend, Instagram in general, or VinyasaFlow360’s tremendous engagement?)īut quickly you’ll realize something: You’ve been left in the lurch. Or maybe you’ll want to be angry but practical. (Who, after all, is this “they” that’s trying to microchip you? You’re not going to like the answer.) You’ll want to tell them about the anti-Semitic underpinnings of all of this. Your instinct will be to get angry at them, which will feel right. ![]() They’ll tell you, no, it’s real, it’s from her favorite yoga influencer on Instagram, that she’s not usually all that political, but that this was too important not to share. Slowly and not too pryingly, you’ll suggest that maybe they shouldn’t trust things they heard on Facebook. You’ll be talking about how your mom got the vaccine, because she has that underlying thing, and one or two or even three of the six people at the table, mathematically, will ask you: “But aren’t you worried about the microchip?” Or you’ll be at brunch, at the old restaurant you went to before the pandemic, the one that barely survived. He’ll be talking with the same voice that might otherwise talk about James Harden trade rumors, which will be the spookiest part. But now he’ll be speaking about scary political actors and evil companies and probably some private citizens like Ruby Freeman as if you’re both living in the same YouTube morass only he had accidentally slipped into. You probably knew him and talked about the NBA salary cap with him before COVID. You will simply have no idea who or what he’s talking about. It won’t even be that you’ll disagree with him. You’re going to be standing next to another parent at soccer practice, watching your kid fail to kick a ball for the first time in 14 months, and that dad is going to lean over to you and, in the most clarion, measured tone, he is going to say the most insane thing you have ever heard. So why do I want to talk about Ruby Freeman?īecause at some point in these next few months, you’re going to return to the honest-to-goodness, real-life social world. This is tragic, obviously, but it is probably not shocking to you that people reading screenshots of 4chan on Twitter in an effort to drum up support for overturning the election might have access to some bad information. She pretty joyfully tells everyone that she’s “living holy and having fun without backsliding” and reminds you: “Remember, in all thy ways, acknowledge God and he shall direct your path.” ![]() This comes as a surprise to me, since I’ve heard Ruby’s voicemail a lot in the last few weeks. That’s because, on 4chan and far-right blogs, she is some sort of Sith Lord/Al Capone combo, who personally stole the election by doing…something with briefcases? That part’s unclear, but what the QAnon people are certain of is Ruby Freeman - a 60-something election worker who also sells handbags at the mall - is part of the global conspiracy to steal the election. Her business is called Lady Ruby’s Unique Treasures, and I don’t recommend you look at the Instagram comments for that store anymore. ![]() She also helped count ballots in Georgia last month. In reality, Ruby runs one of those kiosks in the middle of the mall that sells ladies’ accessories, purses - that sort of thing. I bet you don’t know who Ruby Freeman is, and that would make you a normal person. ![]() She has been, bravely and correctly, off the grid since some psychopaths doxxed her shortly after the election. Really, I want to talk to Ruby Freeman, but I can’t.
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