One tweet would cause Q followers to abandon their belief in Q? I don’t think so, personally.
You really don’t understand what Q is at all. The entire point of Q is Donald Trump, and his ability, using his administration to get around our fake news. It is there to expose exactly how evil, not just corrupt, our system has become.
You copied and pasted from an article you linked to that is nothing but a Q hit piece.
Hey sideboard mod, did you know that us Q freepers believe in lizard people? Oh, and we are also terrorists, according to the article. And that isn’t even the half of it. is this what passes for research?
Anyway, I asked you why you think Q is on the outside, you said it was started as a lark. So, if true, then where is the fun in this lark. The motive per se. I would think the “fun” would be to try to get gullible people to believe what you were writing, and then mock and laugh at them.
This brings us to the entire point. Q, being inside the admin. or outside. THAT IS THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS!
So are you saying that Trump does not care that his supporters are being mocked and ridiculed? See, I just don’t believe that. He could have sent out one single tweet. boom. Q (By the way, you can tell when people don’t have a clue they call Q Qanon) lol. Q is fake news.
Can you give me any logical reason why any slightly reasonable person wouldn’t let his group know they were being played?
Trump supporters were mocked and ridiculed by the left long before anyone had ever heard of Q. Before Trump, they mocked and ridiculed the Tea Party and even referred to its adherents using an epithet for a peculiar homosexual practice.
Of course the article I linked to is critical of Q. Yes, it uses the term Qanon. Whether true Q followers like it or not, that is what the phenomenon has come to called by the press. It is also a better keyword for getting hits from internet searches than just the letter Q, so it continues to be used.
The article does not claim all Q followers believe in lizard people, and only mentions once that in Q World “David Icke’s stories of lizard people could be true.” (There was a mentally ill guy claiming to be a Q adherent in Seattle who stabbed his brother to death with a sword because he “thought he was a lizard person” but this was not mentioned in the article.) Later in the article, the author points out similarities between Icke’s writings (satanic rituals, secret cabal, the Rothschilds, international banking conspiracies, etc.) and Q drops.
The main theme of the article is the similarities between the Q phenomenon and other conspiracy theories and cults, and, as an example of where some of these cults have eventually led, cites Aum Shinrikyo and Heaven’s Gate.
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History is littered with cults and movements that have crafted a new world for their followers. A world where something revolutionary is happening just below their feet, and the only key to seeing it all is to wake up. As a favorite expression of conspiracy theorists, borrowed from the Matrix movies, is “take the red pill.” At their least damaging, these movements are a home for disaffected and frustrated people looking for a comforting alternative to a society in tumult. At their worst, this detachment from reality inspires acts of terrorism.
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The following paragraphs concern Aum Shinrikyo and Heaven’s Gate.
“Foreign Policy” has always leaned left, increasingly so over over the past decade or so. I think it unfair fear-mongering to compare the Q thing to Aum Shinrikyo and Heaven’s Gate for the satisfaction of their pearl-clutching readers, but that’s what they do.
Q appears to have spawned few acts or attempted acts of terrorism. Here’s the only one that seems truly Q-driven:
The Corey Hurren case is often cited, as he posted some Q memes and whatnot, but it seems to me his downward spiral into attempted suicide-by-cop was actually driven by family and financial problems and isolation due to Covid lock downs.
A few other incidents and arrests commonly reported in what you might well call Q hit pieces appear to me to be kooks or drunks who happen to be Q followers doing the sorts of crazy things kooks and drunks do, not worthy of being labelled “Q terrorism”. In other words, to make it crystal clear, crazy acts committed by kooks and drunks have little or nothing to do with who they voted for, what they ate for breakfast, or whether they follow Q or not, and everything to do with their being kooks or drunks.
Where’s the fun in the lark? Apparently, some of the folks who hang out on places like 4chan and 8chan and 8kun get a kick out of role playing various high-level insider types. It’s a game to them, and they probably do laugh at those falling for it and taking them seriously. In the case of Q, it escaped the bounds of the dark web. Noticed as potentially lucrative, the Q thing was taken up by certain grifters and introduced into mainstream social media where it took off — and did prove lucrative for some.
Who is Q? I don’t know or particularly care, but the best evidence so far points to Watkins and/or his son (as well as means, motive and opportunity). Motive? Money, mainly, of course. Perhaps he also got a sort of power high off it, too.
Trump, when asked, said he did not know anything about Q. That is not enough for you. No, it must be a tweet, not a statement he made on national TV. His tweeting days are over now, so that is convenient for you.
Logically, why would he need to tweet about it? He made a public statement that was widely reported in the news. Why would he want to tweet about a movement he stated he knew nothing about?
By the way, Q followers are not his only supporters.
Logically, why would Trump turn to the ugly underbelly of the internet and choose a slimy site linked to mass shootings and known for providing a gathering place for neo-Nazis and pedophiles? He already had his tweeter to “get around the fake news”.
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Can you give me any logical reason why any slightly reasonable person wouldn’t let his group know they were being played?
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1. He does not consider Q followers as “his group”. Why should he, if he knows nothing about Q, did not start it, and is in no way affiliated with it?
2. He did let Q followers know, phrasing it as gently and politely as possible, that they were being played when he said he knew nothing about it on national television.
I still think it would make no difference to Q fanatics if Trump got his tweeter back and tweeted “Q is a hoax!” No, the Q community would claim “disinformation is a necessity” and go into overdrive divining a hidden message in the tweet based on the time stamp and the number letters in the tweet and the numerical values of the letters and run it through some sort of numerology hocus pocus mental machination to reveal something BIG is coming SOON. And, why did he tweet this NOW? It’s Proof! With a capital P! He’s sending us a message! Yes, something Big!
It’s just like the people on FR promoting the “Ashli Babbitt was a crisis actor and it was all fake blood” conspiracy theory. “No memorial service! Show me a memorial service!” When the memorial service happened and there were photos of it, they cried “fake memorial service with crisis actors!” Same with “Why don’t we hear anything from Ashli’s family, her friends?” When published quotes from her family and friends were provided, videos, etc., they cried “Fake news! Fake actors!” Nothing will ever convince them poor Ashli was not a crisis actor, that she was indeed shot to death on Jan. 6.
Speaking of Ashli, don’t you find it at least distasteful that Q followers would denounce one of their own as a “paid Antifa crisis actor” and ridicule her very real death as “fake”? Some of those promoting this “crisis actor” theory here on FR were Q followers. I find it appalling. She was a patriot with good intentions. She truly believed in Q, truly believed Jan. 6 was “The Storm” and believed they were about to rescue thousands of abused children and bring the evildoers to justice. She gave her life for her beliefs.