The State of R/Conspiracy (E324)

QAA Podcast

Julian Feeld, Travis View & Jake Rockatansky

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4.5 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

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A crossroads. A marketplace of ideas. A subreddit evolving in the age of Trump’s second term. We dive into R/Conspiracy to see where our head is at. Subscribe for $5 a month to get all the premium episodes: https://patreon.com/qaa Editing by Corey Klotz. Theme by Nick Sena. Additional music by Pontus Berghe. Theme Vocals by THEY/LIVE (https://instagram.com/theyylivve / https://sptfy.com/QrDm). Cover Art by Pedro Correa: (https://pedrocorrea.com) https://qaapodcast.com QAA was known as the QAnon Anonymous podcast.

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0:00.0	I'm
0:02.0	Oh,
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0:07.0	Oh,
0:08.0	Oh, If you're hearing this, well done, you found a way to connect to the Internet.
0:36.7	Welcome to the QAA podcast, episode 324, the state of our conspiracy.
0:42.9	As always, we are your host, Jake Rakatansky, Julian Field, and Travis View.
0:48.7	Citizens of America, I address you today about one of the nation's most pressing matters. I'm speaking,
0:55.5	of course, of the conspiracy-themed subreddit, where the wildest beliefs of the English-speaking
1:00.8	niche internet wash up on our national shores and vie for the position of America's next-top
1:06.6	conspiracy theory. Our slash conspiracy, as the subreddit is commonly known, has long been a bellwether for
1:12.7	the state of crankdom, which in the wake of Q&N has involved varying levels of right-wing
1:17.5	politics.
1:18.6	So how is our favorite subreddit faring today, having sailed past the first 100 days of
1:24.2	Trump's second term?
1:25.7	Will we find it hopelessly contaminated with GOP talking points?
1:29.2	Have entertaining and somewhat harmless conspiracy theories made a comeback? Is any class consciousness
1:34.5	leaking through? And how's the critical thinking as a whole? At the very least, I am here to tell
1:39.8	you that after years of loosely following these posts, I can report that it is not in a boring
1:46.1	phase. We have an interesting R-slash conspiracy, and I kind of was thinking about it today,
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