Comments by "XSportSeeker" (@XSpImmaLion) on "The Sci-Fi Alien Tech That Became QAnon’s Favorite Cure-All" video.

  1. So, here's the thing... this will sound radical, I know, but here's the thing. The US has to find a way to criminalize the practice of scam alternative medicine crap, or else the population will eventually pay severe consequences for it. This is something I've been saying for well over a decade now, and I think the consequences are starting to show up. See, it's all fine and dandy when people are fooled into these things and end up dying because of it. Well, not exactly fine and dandy for everyone who knew it was bullshit and still end up affected by all of it... family members, friends, people who gets fooled into it because of others supposed experiences. I don't want a nanny state as much as anyone else worried about privacy, self reliance and freedom, but there should be limits as to what people promise in these sham products and services, and if before the Internet this was already an urgent problem to fight against, with the advent of Internet, and particularly with the shift of people's attention towards social networks which is something that should never have happened in the first place, the speed, reach and size of audiences who are become victims of these scams, radicalized by the speech, and becoming like cult followers.... it's just unprecedented in human history. And something like this will have all sorts of consequences in all levels, but perhaps the most damning of it all are the cumulative consequences this has in the psyche of an entire culture. The thing about scammed people that fully believes into these things is that eventually one case will arise when someone that is already vulnerable, potentially with mental issues, and ready to do anything to get what he or she wants, will use violence to get it. You might end up with a case of murder, mass murder, or even something worse if a group of these lunatics get together. The fact that QAnon is something still active in America is just, from an outsider perspective at least, as dangerous as if not more dangerous than the gun violence epidemic. It seems less damaging because it's not as visible, and it's eroding things bellow the surface, but eventually ignoring this and making little of these stories Vice puts out will resurface in a very bad manner eventually. I'm telling you, I am truly hoping for the US to get a president, politicians, justices, institutions, regulatory bodies, and a whole set of laws to stamp these things down. Or else there is no hope for healing a nation that is already as damaged as it is.
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