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the apparent unwillingness or inability of Q-true believers to engage in constructive dialogue with critic

First of all, I am not sure what a Q-true believer is. Even though I think I have a very good hypothesis as to Q's identity, which I will not share, to the extent that Q is just one person, and I think Q is the mouthpiece for a team, I remain skeptical as I think most Q sleuths are. They just don't have to preface every statement with an "if Q exists, then I would interpret this as follows."

Second, though the effort of Q-followers is to try to interpret what Q is saying, because the first indicator that Q is "real" is that you can find a logical, consistent credible meaning in what he is saying, a meaning that corresponds to real world events. It is like any theory. A theory is a hypothesis that some statement about reality is true. Some will claim that they have debunked the theory, e.g. evolution. But the real test is, if I assume that the theory is true can I explain things in the world that I cannot explain otherwise.

Third, some of this will be elusive because if Q is, then Q's purpose is to propagandize. And what is the purpose of propaganda - to shore up the morale of your suporters and join them in a common purpose, while undermining the morale of you enemy, confusing him and subverting his plans. Its a balance between telling truths and telling falsehoods, seeming benign to your friends and overwhelimingly terrifyingly powerful to your enemies. Q is certainly doing this.

Fourth, Q has served one purpose well, which is to remind everyone that the battle being fought is a lot bigger than fake golden shower gate and other kinds of election shenanigans. Allowing that Q is a 14 year old kid playing hooky (a singularly brilliant 14 year old as I challenge anyone here to replicate what he has been able to do), he has successfully drawn connections between a lot of the things we see going on broadening our consciousness beyond just that some idiots at the FBI got taken by a couple of Russians selling fake [or real] Trump scandal.

So the problem is that if you want to debate does Q exist before you debate what does Q mean you will be called foul names. It's one of those deep existential things. Q's existence is only meaningful to the extent what he says has meaning.