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The possibility of real-world harm is high': Experts warn of violence from QAnon around the election
Yahoo ^

Posted on 10/28/2020 2:27:39 PM PDT by MNDude

Melanie Smith, head of analysis at the research firm Graphika, told members of the committee that she now considers QAnon to be “the most pressing threat to trusting government, public institutions and democratic processes.”

“I believe QAnon poses a threat to the election in two main ways,” Smith told Yahoo News. “The first lies in its ability to fit any event in the news cycle into an overarching conspiracy framework. The sheer size of this community and its capacity to shape the political conversation, particularly on the right wing of the political spectrum, cannot be underestimated.”

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TOPICS: Conspiracy
KEYWORDS: anons; cult; grifters; jimwatkins; news; pastelqanon; pigfarmer; q; qanon; qult; ronwatkins
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To: albie

Rotary Club? PIKERS! Everyone knows that it is the Kiwanians who are wild and woolly.


21 posted on 10/28/2020 2:35:08 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: MNDude

“I believe QAnon poses a threat to the election in two main ways,” Smith told Yahoo News. “The first lies in its ability to fit any event in the news cycle into an overarching conspiracy framework. The sheer size of this community and its capacity to shape the political conversation,...”

Experts warned that people like Smith would confuse Yahoo News, Twitter, and the like for QAnon.


22 posted on 10/28/2020 2:35:25 PM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: MNDude

“I believe QAnon poses a threat to the election in two main ways,” Smith told Yahoo News. “The first lies in its ability to fit any event in the news cycle into an overarching conspiracy framework. The sheer size of this community and its capacity to shape the political conversation,...”

Experts warned that people like Smith would confuse Yahoo News, Twitter, and the like for QAnon.


23 posted on 10/28/2020 2:35:25 PM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: MNDude

Many people have been killed by things deemed to be a fairy tale. Countless victims of Santa, Easter Bunny....

Imaginary things are VERY dangerous? No, actually they arent...

But real things, they can cause PAIN and PANIC.

See you Wednesday.


24 posted on 10/28/2020 2:36:15 PM PDT by Professional
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To: MNDude

Is this the Babylon Bee?


25 posted on 10/28/2020 2:36:49 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping List)
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To: MNDude

QAnon?
LOL!
Yeah right, and idea has been engaged in arson, looting and murder in Pennsylvania for the last 2 nights.
Antifa/ BLM=deep state pawns who are supplied with everything they need to destroy cities, burn farmland and forests and blow up vehicles with Trump bumper stickers. THEY all belong in prison or dead.
Wasn’t France all worried about QAnon and the next day some ISIS terrorist beheaded somebody?


26 posted on 10/28/2020 2:37:22 PM PDT by doc maverick
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To: MNDude

Panic in D.C.


27 posted on 10/28/2020 2:38:04 PM PDT by Trumpnado2016
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To: MNDude

Hilarious. These people are absolutely nuts.


28 posted on 10/28/2020 2:39:14 PM PDT by fatman6502002 ((The Team The Team The Team - Bo Schembechler circa 1969))
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To: dforest

Absolutely a LMAO moment. QAnon election violence, or Antifa/BLM election violence, which do you suppose is the most likely.

I heard Chris Plante come up with a great one during the Minneapolis riots, saying all these rioters are Democrats, and they want your vote.


29 posted on 10/28/2020 2:39:17 PM PDT by allwrong57
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To: Osage Orange

Your comment. It speaks very very highly of just how advanced the tyrannical powers we face have risen. They can take what is EMPIRICAL evidence, staring us straight in the face and pretend otherwise.

This is like the Nazis claiming that the 1930’s were under attack and assault by a vicious Jewish Legion of barbarians...

Folks, this Country is on the brink.


30 posted on 10/28/2020 2:39:21 PM PDT by Professional
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To: MNDude

I thought Qanon was just a conspiracy theory?

How can something that’s just an idea be so dangerous?


31 posted on 10/28/2020 2:39:38 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: MNDude

32 posted on 10/28/2020 2:42:32 PM PDT by Junk Silver (Calling an Antifa protest "Mostly peaceful" is like saying your girlfriend is "Mostly not pregnant".)
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To: Army Air Corps

Rotary Club and Kiwanians are softies...It’s the Optimist Club that scares me to death!!!! What a misnomer “Optimist” is....


33 posted on 10/28/2020 2:42:55 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: metmom

That’s how they do it , first you mock them...


34 posted on 10/28/2020 2:43:12 PM PDT by Cowgirl
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To: MNDude
I wondered why they weren't worried about urban rioters - 30 cops were injured in Philly. But wait - they are busily trying to link the rioters to Q, only it's hard because they have to call rioters 'protesters'....

The title under a photograph of Portland rioters: People, including one person holding a "Save Our Children" sign that refers to a QAnon conspiracy theory, in a protest against racial injustice in Portland, Ore., on Aug. 22. (Maranie Staab/Reuters)

Click to view photograph

35 posted on 10/28/2020 2:43:13 PM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: SaveFerris

After nearly 4 years of “the Russians” I guess it’s “QAnon” now.

Russia,QAnon,Russia,QAnon,Russia,QAnon,Russia,QAnon,Russia,QAnon,Russia,QAnon,Russia,QAnon,Russia,QAnon,Russia,QAnon Russia,QAnon,Russia,QAnon,Russia,QAnonRussia,QAnon,Russia,QAnon,Russia,QAnon,Russia,QAnon,Russia,QAnon,Russia,QAnon!


36 posted on 10/28/2020 2:43:36 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (I would rather be killed by Covid than by Loneliness, at the end of my life! I'll be 82 in November!)
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To: Grampa Dave; timestax

Woohoo!!

We can startz us some “news” channels with that inventory!!


37 posted on 10/28/2020 2:46:28 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: MNDude

They are worried that the Q/Anon Army will find ways to bypass their censorship, and organize resistance to fraud.


38 posted on 10/28/2020 2:46:47 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
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To: MNDude

Face palm, cubed, to the Nth.


39 posted on 10/28/2020 2:47:23 PM PDT by avenir
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To: MNDude

“I think, therefore I’m Q...”


40 posted on 10/28/2020 2:48:25 PM PDT by Tobias Grimsley (some things can be spoken, some can not)
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