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."
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
From the scant objective material that exists on the internet about “Q” and the whole “deep state” plot to protect Trump it appears to me that the whole meme was created by leftist media like CNN. Its a classic case of “projection”, i.e. attributing Trump’s inexplicable election to some nefarious team of embedded military and IC spooks. Its just a domestic version of the “Russia” hoax.
What isn’t a hoax is the saturation bombing of leftist news source with ridiculous and non-specific gibberish like this article.
Excellent post.
I’ve read one possibility is that the DS knows that soon Q predictions will begin to manifest, thus the mass censorship.
That will certainly get interesting when very specific predictions begin to happen.
Yeah I know. The leadership does, But the followers don’t.
” those that agree with CNN on this issue are socially/intellectually superior? “
LOL!
How about: “intellectually equal”?
That’s insult enough to the qanons...
No not necessarily
I’m saying we should get back to normal conservative topics like lower taxes, gun rights, individual liberties and religious freedom strong defense etc., and not made up stuff like lizard people cults putting microchips in people
I also honestly regret saying anything that might have sounded rude
Are you serious that they're not going to try chipping people?
They're already pushing it *for the children* and to protect senile old grandma and grandpa.
And IMO, lizard people is the PERFECT description of democrats.
Huh?
You have labeled Q followers "socially/intellectually inferior" and "lizard people cults"
Name calling is characteristic of liberals?
Were Brian Stelter's words just before he wrote this crap "Hold my Beer"?
Exactly what I was just thinking.
I'd love to see that moon-faced fattie dance...
Sounds like “Brain” Stelter might be a little worried that his alleged child sex-trafficking activities might be exposed in the near future...
I would expect that an alleged child-sex trafficker like Molly McKew would be concerned about Q-Anon.
It would threaten both her alleged source of income, and her alleged source of jollies...
“Brain” should practice holding his breath...
This is definitely an attempt to label this movement as dangerous.
From the article:
It is a dangerous, fully immersive alternative reality that is inspiring its followers to plan domestic terrorist attacks. It is, in other words, a system of radicalization.
Opposite.
Qanon exposes the false reality presented by the deep state media. It pulls back the curtain, so to speak. Looking at the world through the Q lens, gives a glimpse of the true reality.
The world of the Epstein operation being used to control governments, for example.
None are so blind as those who will not see.
#Matrix
Polite society is becoming more and more aware of the phenomenon. That's a good first step for them.
I see we have some members of polite society on this thread.
#TheGreatAwakening
That's a bingo.
That's the opposite of the truth.
Millions of brains in the 'hive mind' (you might call it a cult) take what is offered and run off to open source materials digging up the truth and sharing it with each other.
Best cult EVER.
The derp state (polite society) is afraid. Very afraid.
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