They are creating a new threat, Trump disavowed white supremacist (probably like all 20 of them) and the proud boys (despite not being white supremacists) so now they are forcing a new enemy that supports Trump.
It is getting so tiresome. At least it is not gamergate this time.
I know right? I've been following these "right-wing extremist groups" like The_Donald for a long time now. I also read crazy news sites and even Russian propaganda like RT. Shouldn't I be an expert on Qanon? Yet I know almost nothing about it.
We seem to have a subject matter expert here for every internet subculture ever. But when QAnon appears, the most we can come up with is that it's a based religious thing that is super woke to globohomo bullshit.
I just skimmed https://greatawakening.win/ to figure out what it was, am I a QAnon now? Seems like a label for some new censorship device.
Secretly Saving The World From Satanic Cult of Pedophiles & Cannibals
I mean... that sounds like a good thing, why are they giving it so much attention? They will start attributing more to this group, I think a lot of curious forum-goers and shitposting LARPers will suddenly be demonized by the MSM. I certainly don't want large corporations telling my employer that I'm associated with some kind of hate group or something. I do hate their lies though, perhaps that's my sin.
I found a few QAnon YouTube channels, and I found some actual Q-posts.
The Q-posts aren't actually that crazy. It's all worded with plausible deniability, questions, and insinuation, but you can boil it down to: "oligarchic elites control things and different people/groups stand to benefit from what you're seeing on the news in underhanded ways". So, obvious behavior is obvious.
The YouTubers were actually the ones that were saying crazy shit. They seemed to be the ones pushing the idea that Trump is waging a war on behalf of God against inter-dimensional pedophile demons or whatever. They read the posts, but took shit away from it that really wasn't there.
The couple Q-posts I saw seemed, normal, frankly. Like, if you knew a bit about Globalists, Finance, and Intel agencies, you could have guessed what the posts insinuate. That's not to say it's all bullshit, the connections that the poster pointed out were clever, and linked different programs and initiatives that I wasn't aware of... so the dude could be a real person in an intel, finance, or bureaucratic agency trying to make things simpler to the masses.
All the extra stuff is some over-zealous bible thumping MAGA chuds going a bit haywire, and reading their own personal fantasy into the posts. They're certainly not dangerous. I guess you could say: Crazy Church-Lady Boomers discover the internet and drink to much while reading posts online.
Boomers having strange reactions to redpills makes sense. It reminds me of Kanye on JRE. I can't comprehend how he sees the world, but he is clearly looking at the same shit I am.
They're mad that gullible boomers are being organized for glorified /pol/ campaigns.
That's really all it is.
Most of the qanon shit is no different from the old days of propped up joint /b/ + /pol/ ops. Wouldn't be surprised if it's some of the same coordinators too.
QAnon and Boogaloo Bois in Hawaiian shirts, the two right wing boogeymen every NPR listener knows a great deal about but hardly anyone has seen in the wild.
Qanon is the echo chamber bogeyman, the crazy conspiracy theorists they can point to and say "LOL only these crazy people think orange man is not bad"
And from what i've seen, I'd still call them quite a bit saner than the crazies we see screaming about trump's scotus picks being the end of the country.
Makes sense considering 9 times out of 10 when I hear about Q it's because journos are rambling about them or some social media site banned them. The left is obsessed with them for some reason.
Even over at T_D they barely come up and are mostly considered LARPers.
Maybe Q is just a psyop to keep lefties chasing imaginary windmills :D
I’ve seen lefties try and use it as a thought-terminating cliche to dunk on people because President Trump didn’t condemn them passionately enough. My response is usually “What the hell is a QAnon?” I still don’t fully understand what it is and why I should give them attention. What is it with lefties dragging obscure communities from the fringes of society into the mainstream and using them as a beat-stick against their opponents? You can’t pull some random community into mainstream relevancy, claiming its existence is a problem, then blame everyone else but yourself when more people join it than would have otherwise because, you know, you gave it more attention than it was worth.
I'm an extremely online Trump supporter, and my knowledge is barely more than this reporter. What they fuck is the media telling these people?
They are creating a new threat, Trump disavowed white supremacist (probably like all 20 of them) and the proud boys (despite not being white supremacists) so now they are forcing a new enemy that supports Trump. It is getting so tiresome. At least it is not gamergate this time.
I know right? I've been following these "right-wing extremist groups" like The_Donald for a long time now. I also read crazy news sites and even Russian propaganda like RT. Shouldn't I be an expert on Qanon? Yet I know almost nothing about it.
We seem to have a subject matter expert here for every internet subculture ever. But when QAnon appears, the most we can come up with is that it's a based religious thing that is super woke to globohomo bullshit.
I just skimmed https://greatawakening.win/ to figure out what it was, am I a QAnon now? Seems like a label for some new censorship device.
I mean... that sounds like a good thing, why are they giving it so much attention? They will start attributing more to this group, I think a lot of curious forum-goers and shitposting LARPers will suddenly be demonized by the MSM. I certainly don't want large corporations telling my employer that I'm associated with some kind of hate group or something. I do hate their lies though, perhaps that's my sin.
I found a few QAnon YouTube channels, and I found some actual Q-posts.
The Q-posts aren't actually that crazy. It's all worded with plausible deniability, questions, and insinuation, but you can boil it down to: "oligarchic elites control things and different people/groups stand to benefit from what you're seeing on the news in underhanded ways". So, obvious behavior is obvious.
The YouTubers were actually the ones that were saying crazy shit. They seemed to be the ones pushing the idea that Trump is waging a war on behalf of God against inter-dimensional pedophile demons or whatever. They read the posts, but took shit away from it that really wasn't there.
The couple Q-posts I saw seemed, normal, frankly. Like, if you knew a bit about Globalists, Finance, and Intel agencies, you could have guessed what the posts insinuate. That's not to say it's all bullshit, the connections that the poster pointed out were clever, and linked different programs and initiatives that I wasn't aware of... so the dude could be a real person in an intel, finance, or bureaucratic agency trying to make things simpler to the masses.
All the extra stuff is some over-zealous bible thumping MAGA chuds going a bit haywire, and reading their own personal fantasy into the posts. They're certainly not dangerous. I guess you could say: Crazy Church-Lady Boomers discover the internet and drink to much while reading posts online.
Boomers having strange reactions to redpills makes sense. It reminds me of Kanye on JRE. I can't comprehend how he sees the world, but he is clearly looking at the same shit I am.
They keep asking Trump to disavow the “dangerous extremists” related to QAnon.
Has a Q-tip ever even done anything but yell about pedos and Trump being the next coming of Christ?
They're mad that gullible boomers are being organized for glorified /pol/ campaigns.
That's really all it is.
Most of the qanon shit is no different from the old days of propped up joint /b/ + /pol/ ops. Wouldn't be surprised if it's some of the same coordinators too.
QAnon and Boogaloo Bois in Hawaiian shirts, the two right wing boogeymen every NPR listener knows a great deal about but hardly anyone has seen in the wild.
I remember when they first started running articles about the "Boogaloo Bois" and everyone on /pol/ simultaneously went "Who?"
Qanon is the echo chamber bogeyman, the crazy conspiracy theorists they can point to and say "LOL only these crazy people think orange man is not bad"
And from what i've seen, I'd still call them quite a bit saner than the crazies we see screaming about trump's scotus picks being the end of the country.
Makes sense considering 9 times out of 10 when I hear about Q it's because journos are rambling about them or some social media site banned them. The left is obsessed with them for some reason.
Even over at T_D they barely come up and are mostly considered LARPers.
Maybe Q is just a psyop to keep lefties chasing imaginary windmills :D
Kinda like “identifying racist dogwhistles?”
I’ve seen lefties try and use it as a thought-terminating cliche to dunk on people because President Trump didn’t condemn them passionately enough. My response is usually “What the hell is a QAnon?” I still don’t fully understand what it is and why I should give them attention. What is it with lefties dragging obscure communities from the fringes of society into the mainstream and using them as a beat-stick against their opponents? You can’t pull some random community into mainstream relevancy, claiming its existence is a problem, then blame everyone else but yourself when more people join it than would have otherwise because, you know, you gave it more attention than it was worth.