I came across a piece about her on The Tyee (which is pretty cool and has one environmental columnist whose work is really good: Andrew Nikiforuk):
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2022/07/01/Dangerous-Delusions-Canada-Queen-Of-World/
‘Queen of Canada’ tours the country
Didulo tours Canada in a recreational vehicle, accompanied by an entourage. They hold “meet and greets” where she speaks formally. These are recorded and posted on multiple channels on QAnon conspiracy theories, pseudo-legal sovereign-citizen beliefs and new age spirituality.
She tells her followers of her supernatural abilities. She claims she can become invisible by “cloaking” herself. This power is not unusual for beings of her race, she says. She is not of this Earth. She is a member of a highly advanced, alien race — an Arcturian, an alien being with special celestial powers.
I find people this crazy hard to assess serious as social threats go. I could never really process Qanon. With a population of 8 billion people, even with a small % of crazies it’s going to be a lot of people.
I get your average sleazy profiteer or corrupt creep or pro deregulation industrial types better.
My home is in the Global South and there a lot of poorer, less educated people I come across who casually hold views that are pretty “crazy” from a Western standpoint. I personally get impatient with them and societal inertia wrt change but it’s mostly just a sign of poor education and exposure more than mental illness or cultishness. Cluelessness. Otoh that’s more the inertia of progress than outright resistance to progress.
Sometimes I get a little impatient. Otoh it’s not really my job or thing to tell other people what to think and do. I am not an educator and I have clear views and compartments since as DUer TrollBuster said auto-didact disease is the curse of the times.
If people want to be that way in their spaces whatever. But in my space I won’t have policies or laws formulated such that all views are considered equal including Intelligent Design, Creationism, mysticism, magic, puranas etc. They aren’t real. You stay in your lane and I stay in mine. But just because I am godless and pro real science and that’s a minority view these days, doesn’t mean I don’t want a say.
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