r/Qult_Headquarters

The party of FAFO.

The announcement is only a few hours old, but Qultists are wasting no time with their nonsense. The top three reasons appear to be:

1. Covid vax, cos of course

2. She shared a story three months ago in a live interview about being on a boat and a "trusted female friend" taking her downstairs to a naked, older British rocker in bed and leaving her there. She said she had to fight him off all night. (The.Cabal killed her as a result).

3. She was with her on-again, off-again boyfriend, who has faced charges of domestic violence. (He murdered her).

Of the three, the last one seems the most possible, but I'm leaning towards accidental or intentional overdose. She reportedly fought depression for many years.

ETA: She also had a long history of alcoholism and drug abuse.

I was living in New York City in 2023 with a couple of dudes who were into filmmaking, both actors and involved in producing their own pilot.

I hit it off especially well with the more down to Earth one, who was also a musician and comedian.

His childhood friend moved to the city with him many years ago, both from a depressed ex-industrial city in Massachusetts, and the two of them would hang out a lot.

I discovered very quickly that the two of them were quite into Joe Rogan and everything that comes with that scene, including the many, many, many conspiracies.

I am a skeptic by nature, in the best sense of the word, and that involves critical thinking, the real kind, not the bargain bin "I saw some stats on a Facebook post and now I hate vaccines because I'm not a sheep that listens to experts" stuff, so I knew immediately I was in for a wild ride

I forget how it happened, but they brought up one of the signature Q-adjacent conspiracies, the one about Bourdain/Bennington/Cornell having been killed for working on a documentary about child trafficking

I expressed doubt that such a thing ever existed and the other guy (the one that I didn't live with) was incredulous, the face he made was unforgettable, he could not believe I doubted it

Then, I was interrogated with a rapidfire sequence of conspiracy theories, many of them Q-adjacent, which I also expressed doubt in

I had heard most of them, including the documentary one, but they introduced me to the mud flood conspiracy, this idea that there was a civilization called the Tartarian Empire that ruled the whole world and was wiped away by a global mud flood, leaving us a bunch of architecture and a fake history for whatever reason

I once more expressed doubt and was met with looks of confusion, like they'd never even imagined anyone could think these ideas were insane

Mind you, these are late 30s urbanites, fairly educated (in the arts, which may be a negative point), and not particularly right-wing or whatever (actually, the other guy I was living with was a Tucker Carlson fan, and somehow the least conspiratorial of the three)

About a year later I was in the city again on the way to Europe and decided to hang out with them for a couple days, took them to a punk show (Weekend Nachos, for the curious), and stopped off at a really rad Vietnamese restaurant on the way back

I was pretty drunk there but I encountered a guy working there who was so stupid and out of touch that I practically sobered up on the spot

Guy was Gen Z, had to be about a decade younger than me (I was 33 at the time), and he really did not understand anything

He was asking if I thought there were really litterboxes in schools and I said "...no?" and he looked at me with the same kind of expression the other guy had before, like he had never even imagined the answer could possibly be "no"

And then he asked if I had heard of QAnon and asked if I thought there was anything to it

Again I said "no" but kind of more firmly and he said something like "I don't know man, it might not be but I'm not going to vote for Hillary this year just in case it is"

I really thought he was fucking with me

I felt it in my bones

But we had to leave so I just kind of put all of that behind me

Some time later, I realized one of my friends actually knew him!

I asked if he was seriously like that and she said "oh yeah, he's always been like that"

This was, mind you, over a year later, so the middle of last year

She said he did fine in school and all but he essentially just lives in a fog of knowing nothing at all

She told me that she didn't realize until earlier that month he didn't know who Biden was

Yes, that Biden, the President one

She showed me some screenshots from earlier that year where he was convinced Trump had been President and tried to prove her wrong but could not and blamed it on the "Mandala Affect"

I wish I were kidding about all of this but these people are out there and at least some of them do vote, although hopefully not that one