He once thought Hillary Clinton and Lady Gaga ate babies. Now he wants to help people out of QAnon

[Nevilledog]

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-man-who-formerly-believed-qanon-conspiracy-theories-speaks-out-20200906-u62bb43elbhhljjw33sidhd3im-story.html

Stephen Ross went from being one of Lady Gaga’s “little monsters” in high school to believing she was a cannibal pedophile.

The Massachusetts native says he was a sheltered kid with “overprotective” parents who severely restricted his screen time before he left home at age 18, shortly after coming out as gay.

He entered the world a smart but insecure and gullible bleeding heart — the perfect mark.

When one of his first serious boyfriends — a fan of InfoWars host Alex Jones — introduced him to the “truther” movement that considers the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting a hoax, he started his lengthy fall down the rabbit hole.

“I became obsessed with Sandy Hook. I got enraged. I couldn’t believe they’d have kid actors,” Ross, 27, told the Daily News about his descent and eventual extrication from the perverse patchwork of conspiracy theories now underpinning the unhinged world of QAnon.

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[Initech]

1. How do you deprogram cult members though?

[Thekaspervote]

2. Sick!!

[underpants]

3. Maybe it's just PR but there have been many reports on the number of people tapping into Q

during the shutdown. Lots of idle time. Some surely were just checking it out and some to laugh at it but this could be like Trumps (and Russia’s) Facebook work in 2016. Just saying.

[kimbutgar]

5. Someone posted that some of the strict evangelicals who couldn't go to church became attracted

To QAnon and the pastors lost congregants in their churches. The same weak people who let religion control their lives not guide their lives got sucked up into this vacuum of QAnon.

[Codeine]

4. Dumbass. nt

[ck4829]

6. Glad he's out of it