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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They are in full blown panic mode.
Enjoy the show.
Each FAKE NEWS article written or attack is a badge of honor - military grade. pic.twitter.com/04tJgrOdoO— CuriousCamo (@CuriousCamo) August 14, 2020
QAnon is a virtual cult that celebrates President Trump and casts Democratic politicians and other elites as evil child abusers.
There's something wrong with this statement??????
It gives me the impression that the Establishment is worried about what Q is saying, for some reason.
The dumbest article of all time from the dumbest fake journalist of all time.
And that’s sayin something.
Q is GREAT! Educational, informative, history-providing, context-providing and humorous individuals. INFOWARRIORS.
ThankQ for posting. WWG1WGA
I stopped at the first lying sentence, which was the first sentence. Ive read hundreds of Q posts. The one I remember most is The war is real. The news is fake. Perhaps THATS the real reason for the recent rash of Q hit pieces.
Yes...it’s like they WANT people to check it out
And “white supremacists”. Don’t forget about them . . .
This is analogous to the RATs mantra about the dangers of “White Supremacists” that Clinton and Reno were conjuring up out of virtually nothing in the 90s. This crap led to Ruby Ridge and Waco. They are trying to revive this sort of crap again to justify extra-legal abuses.
If you label a group with cultlike status, you can do as you wish with them.
Coordinated. Always is.
Now the MSM starts hitting Qanon. How strange.
Almost like they are afraid of something.
... Mark Dice - “THWWWEEEE!!
Because he is one of them. Rev.3:9!
You,know we are in trouble if Q writes the Senate’s safe and Trump by a landslide.
Q gets most of his info from the news the day before.
Trying to refocus our attention off the AntifaBLM riots?
Gee Ive never seen anyone from Q burning down buildings, destroying property, and throwing ice water bottles at people..oh I know who does, I know I know, its ANTIFA, the same group of commie jacka@@es that Kamala Harris referred to as “Heroes”
“Yes...its like they WANT people to check it out.”
There is something odd here, and you are correct. QAnon is a cult, or is cult-like. I wonder where it is heading...
“Brian seems panicked.”
He should be. There are thousands of adept Anon hackers sitting in their basements watching him.
They See how he talks about him, they consider him their President’s mortal enemy. They watch and archive his shows, they parse his lies. They let him know what a pig he is.
Since he thinks they are a hideous right wing terror group he probably equates it to walking in front of a kennels filled with dobermans.
For these people at CNN et al, terrorists are people whose words or actions might change people’s minds who have been supporting the Left.
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