More than a few who do something bad enough to get them time will snap out of it in prison...

Like true believers. It happens.

I hadn't thought about that part of what's going on right now.

I'm talking about the cultists. The ones who believe in the most absurd stuff.

The ones that have been gone for a while.

Once they're cut off from the source...

I'm not saying "poor widdle babies it isn't their fault they did a terror uwu"

Everything about these situations is painful. What happens. What wasn't stopped. The realization. The loss. The bereaved. The anger. The silence. All of it.

If you blow up a circus because, a couple of years prior, you walked into a trap unsuspecting and unprepared and, as a result, you believed the circus was really a [insert whatever balls to the wall belief you can image here] and [literally whatever]...

Like... you clicked on something you didn't recognize as what it was because you'd never seen anything like it before.

Or you walked into a place because you needed help with your back pain. Or your anger issues. Or terrible cooking.

And then you end up a fucking terrorist.

Snapping out of it won't bring whatever the hell you and yours took at that circus the fuck back. So I get it.

Some people realize just how wrong they were. It hits them especially hard when they realize exactly WHAT fucked them.

I'm opposed to the death penalty on general principle but I also realize I don't have a say in the matter... and we live in one of the only "civilized" countries to still allow capital punishment.

It also ain't acceptable to tell people how to grieve or how to feel PERIOD

I guess what I'm trying to get at is... Now that shit's getting real, the chances of a Q follower ending up in a similar situation isn't zero.

It's already bad enough that they're dying because of it.

It's a special kind of hurt when they stick around long enough to wake up, realize that every dumbshit conspiracy was dumb as shit, understand they were lied to by a psychopath, and spend their remaining years trying to educate and warn others. (to make up for it, not to get out)

As an American, there are things I can't really say about Aum and the Aum Affair because I literally have NO say.

But I can say this about QAnon:

It is an absolute failure of American society that this was ever able to find a foothold.

That failure is called white supremacy.

Maybe the reason so many of them didn't recognize what they were walking into is because white America offers ZERO incentive for white Americans to know these things.

And knowing too much about them or feeling too strongly about them is more often than not looked down upon.