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QAnon spreads across globe, shadowing COVID-19
The Hill ^ | 09/12/20 06:32 AM EDT | BY CHRIS MILLS RODRIGO

Posted on 09/12/2020 10:38:24 AM PDT by RandFan

The QAnon movement is spreading around the world, turning an outlandish conspiracy theory revolving around President Trump into one of the nation’s most dangerous exports.

Flags and banners brandishing one of the conspiracy’s mottos — “WWG1WGA,” an acronym for “where we go one, we go all” — dotted the crowd at a rally against lockdowns in Germany last month.

And when Trump visited Japan in 2019, he was greeted by cardboard cutouts of the letter Q.

These aren’t just isolated instances either. Researchers have found large QAnon communities in more than 70 countries.

The original conspiracy theory was tightly focused on an alleged cabal of deep state figures and Hollywood elites running child trafficking rings that Trump was working with the military to expose. But it has since evolved into a meta-conspiracy theory that pushes its anti-institution and anti-Semitic strains more explicitly.

Experts who spoke with The Hill about the theory’s spread said it has become worse because of the coronavirus, which itself is the subject of many conspiracy theories. This helped create a perfect storm fostering distrust in established government and public health institutions.

“Pandemics fuel a lot of questions and make people very skeptical, especially in cases when what we would consider to be credible and trustworthy institutions all of a sudden themselves don't seem to have the right answers or are not aligned on how to manage the situation,” Anna-Sophie Harling, head of media evaluation startup NewsGuard’s Europe team, said in an interview.

“Conspiracies are rooted in the idea that we're all being lied to by some greater authority or voice and QAnon perfectly ties into that.”

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Conspiracy
KEYWORDS: anotherqthread; covid19; qanon; trump
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To: bagster
Follow me on twitter.

Are you going someplace interesting?

Liquor store?
Ho-house?
Taco truck?
SG-1 Command under Cheyenne mountain?

Yeah, I'll take a look at Twitter maybe tomorrow.
Declaring myself somebody's "follower" smells kind of funky to me.

I'd hate to wind up in hell over that blasphemous shiz-nit.

41 posted on 09/12/2020 2:52:37 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: RandFan

Fear the “Q,” you left-wing, 50 IQ commie apes.

“Q” has you surrounded and out-gunned and is leading you into the kill zone.

Say bye-bye.


42 posted on 09/12/2020 3:04:18 PM PDT by sergeantdave (Teach a man to fish and he'll steal your gear and sell it)
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To: humblegunner
Declaring myself somebody's "follower" smells kind of funky to me.

Yea, yea I get it. You walk alone.

But even the Karate Kid followed Mr. Miyagi.

Everybody needs a hero. Even you.

And there's always room for one more in the Qult of Bagster.


43 posted on 09/12/2020 3:06:59 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: sergeantdave
left-wing, 50 IQ commie apes.

Daddy likey.


44 posted on 09/12/2020 3:10:22 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: bagster
But even the Karate Kid followed Mr. Miyagi.

Miyagi may have been a pedo groomer.

They everywhere, you know.
And combing hairs and shaving folks, a-groomin' like crazy.

45 posted on 09/12/2020 3:16:40 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: bagster

The IQ number is generous.


46 posted on 09/12/2020 3:47:50 PM PDT by sergeantdave (Teach a man to fish and he'll steal your gear and sell it)
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To: sergeantdave
The IQ number is generous.

Yea, I was gonna say.

#MyOnlyQuibble


47 posted on 09/12/2020 3:59:12 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: humblegunner
And combing hairs and shaving folks, a-groomin' like crazy.


48 posted on 09/12/2020 4:07:46 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: bagster

Ah! Quibble and dip - one of my favorite Saturday night snacks.


49 posted on 09/12/2020 4:14:30 PM PDT by sergeantdave (Teach a man to fish and he'll steal your gear and sell it)
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