Posted on 08/14/2020 3:57:07 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
QAnon is a virtual cult that celebrates President Trump and casts Democratic politicians and other elites as evil child abusers. Aspects of the cult are downright delusional. Last year an FBI office warned that Q adherents are a domestic terrorism threat. Despite all of that, or maybe because of all that, this dangerous nonsense seems to be spreading. It is cropping up in congressional races and national news coverage. In recent weeks many observers of the online information ecosystem have written, with growing concern, about the mainstreaming of QAnon. Reporters like Kevin Roose of The New York Times and Ben Collins of NBC have said that the conspiracy theory is in much wider circulation than polite society wants to admit.
Much of the conspiracy conversation happens in the social media shadows, in private groups. Earlier this week NBC's Ari Sen and Brandy Zadrozny reported that "an internal investigation by Facebook has uncovered thousands of groups and pages, with millions of members and followers, that support the QAnon conspiracy theory." The source? Internal Facebook documents. The company is weighing taking action against its QAnon community. Twitter recently made similar moves.
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So I asked her to elaborate. Here's what she wrote to me: "QAnon offers its adherents an addictive alternative reality that requires their participation and, through this participation, draws them into the elaborate architecture of the conspiracy. It exploits the sense that something is broken in our society. But rather than focus on understanding these social fractures and healing them, QAnon instead fixates on the pursuit of enemies and villains described in such extreme terms that any action — either by adherents or by identified champions like President Trump —becomes justifiable. By drawing on the culture and value system, Q adherents have justified violent attacks."
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The left has been rampaging in our major cities for more than two months, burning down buildings, setting cars on fire, smashing windows, looting, and beating people up, and the left is worried about a hypothetical threat from Q-Anon.
Is the country keeps going the way it is he will end up much worse than in jail
ANOTHER mainstream media article about “Q.”
There have been four or five in the past few days in mainstream outlets that usually look down their noses at any mention of “conspiracy theories.”
I wonder what gives.
Someone made up a fantastical cult called the “Boogaloos”. The Left is dumb enough to believe that one. Lol
Mark Zucker - “Squeal like a pig boy!”
Brian Seltzer - “RRREEEE!!”
Is Q “”Over the Target”? YOU BET!
Whether real or false, ANYTHING that triggers the left and makes them worry, scared, angry etc. is fine by me. The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Brian seems panicked.
That’s what I was thinking. Is BLM any better than QAnon? I don’t give a fig about either.
I wonder what gives.
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The election.
The q crowd are a bit unusual to me but I’ve seen nothing that makes me think they are going to start any violence. I personally would hate to see wide spread violence in our country but I think I already do and it has nothing to do with q. I do think the day hard working people of all backgrounds will fight back against blm and antifa will come if the riots aren’t stopped.
The difference being that in 2020 the mainstream media has suddenly taken an interest in it.
As I said, I wonder what gives.
the latest cnn business headline is
The maker of a coronavirus vaccine backed by Bill and Melinda Gates soars in Wall Street debut
bit that i have any proof for any quanon stuff, but if qanon is such a discredited conspiracy theory, how come it commands the attention of cnn business?
“Is Q “”Over the Target”? YOU BET!”
Seems the case.
I really believe that the Left is using this as a catch all term for all Conservative online communities, just like this one. To be honest I had not even heard of this until a couple of months ago and had to look it up. I think it’s just another placeholder name to describe online “deplorables” designed to be a counter to the growing conservative online dialogue. Amazing what happens when people start seeing shadow banning happen against them and their friends from the mainstream social media sites.
Well, we all know that. I'm wondering why CNN, PBS and the Washington Post among others are suddenly -- all within the past few days in fact -- doing stories involving "Q."
Odd.
It sounds strangely like a description of liberalism and its adherents...
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