Posted on 02/15/2018 11:17:43 AM PST by MNDude
Wild conspiracy theories have a way of seeping into public discourse these days, thanks in part to the divided nature of U.S. politics, the growth of websites that actively promote them, such as InfoWars, and the capacity for fake news to spread virally on social media without any fact-checking or oversight.
Enter Q.
In late October, just days before a different InfoWars-inflated conspiracyabout anti-fascist protesters plotting a civil warwas about to fizzle, a user identified as Q on the imageboard website 4chan started posting vague, portentous messages related to an approaching storm. The user claimed to be a high-level government operative, and the folks on /pol/, a subsection of 4chan with a history of spreading fake news, took noticewith some even believing it was President Donald Trump himself who was posting the messages on 4chan and on a similar website, 8chan. The Q internet posts began appearing three weeks after Trumps cryptic remark about the storm. The anonymous user would ask questions referring to the idea that Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama and George Soros could potentially be arrested or detained, and would make random claims such as: This has nothing to do with Russia (yet), apparently referring to his own internet writings. People started cobbling together the posts and reporting them to one another as clues in what they saw as a larger puzzle. One phrase that gets bandied about a lot on #Qanon threads is Follow the white rabbit, referring to the turn of phrase used in Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and the 1999 film The Matrix, which has been mined for allusions by Trump supporters since he launched his campaign back in 2015.
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a.) Make the term "conspiracy theory" equal to lying liars/fake news/kookoobird.
b.) Label people like Alex Jones "conspiracy theorists" and things like "pizzagate" conspiracy theories.
c.) Equate "Q" to Alex Jones, who they have already discredited by use of step b.
d.) Rinse/Repeat.
"Conspiracy theory" is a very useful term for the Deep State. Many, even here on FR have been conditioned by it.
Tsk, tsk.
LOL
Irrelevant and on the skids Newsweek along with their liberal colleagues are running scared. You know it when the liberal rag takes note and devotes that much print in an effort to debunk Q and his followers.
Excellent Post. I have always thought Q was leftist "agitprop" designed to make the right look unhinged and divorced from reality.
Nam vet told me that if you were taking the most incoming fire, then you knew you were in the right place. You didnt like being there, no one likes being shot at, but you were in the best position to accomplish the missions objective.
This story hasnt had a chance to put its pants on yet. And guess what, liberal journalists arent investigating it, just covering it up.
Just in from Q:
Feb 15 2018 13:05:39
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Newsweek problems?
http://www.newsweek.com/how-storm-biggest-fake-news-story-796725
Strike back against us?
MSM not happy?
“Conspiracy” label.
Re_read crumbs re: “conspiracy” / MSM coverage.
Who will be next?
They are here.
They will try to discredit.
They are stupid.
They bring more eyes.
The ‘proofs’ are important.
‘Proofs’ provide new ‘eyes’ ability to question.
This board in the coming months will be spread & discussed across ALL PLATFORMS.
Important to be prepared.
We will help.
TRUTH always wins.
Q
underwhelmed
Author Michael Edison Hayden. Is he the son of former Director of CIA and former Director of NSA Michael Vincent Hayden?
Protecting his dads Deep State?
Newsweek = Fake News
Go to love when Freepers post pathetic Fake News Sites like Newsweek to lecture us on what is fake news.
Hilarious!
Thanks for the laugh.
Didnt Newsweek sell for $1 not to long ago? It sold for that cheap because no one believes Newsweek. Its nothing but lies, tricks and deceit. All they do is lie, lie and lie.
Newsweek = Fake Stream News
Notice how the Delusional Lying Leftist outlets like Newsweak calls them “wild conspiracy theories” when it’s directed at them, but when it is directed at their opposition, as in Watergate, it’s”serious” and “dangerous”.
What a bunch of phony hypocrites.
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