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No. 291606
Since many (all?) of us are into watching trainwrecks unfold, I would like to introduce you all to the cult that's sweeping Middle America so that you can enjoy the show.
>Who is 'Qanon'?Qanon, or simply Q, is an anonymous imageboard poster who claims to be a high-level official in the White House. Seemingly omniscient, Q has been tasked with the responsibility of taking down the Deep State, which is conveniently composed of Democrats and Republicans who publicly criticize Trump.
You see, the Deep State are actually satanic pedophilic cannibals (some claim that they are also vampires and/or other paranormal beings) who kidnap children and hold them in pizza parlors and farms to harvest their adrenochrome and participate in ritual abuse against them. Luckily Qanon is here to send them to Gitmo so that they can be imprisoned and executed without a trial.
Q began sharing his top secret plans against the Deep State on 4chan posts (called 'drops') before moving to 8chan because '4chan is compromised' (which is pretty hilarious if you know about 8chan's history). Why he is allegedly sharing top-secret information on a website full of gray-area porn and anime is unknown, but luckily he is covering his tracks by coding his 'drops' in ways such as using initials to refer to public figures, intentionally spreading 'disinfo' (read: if my predictions fail then it was actually intentional!), and using a (as until a couple weeks ago insecure) trip code!
>Who are Qanon's followers?Qanon initially and predictably caught the attention of /pol/ because they're gullible and like their roleplayers. However, as Q's failed predictions began to pile up, the act became more ridiculous, and his fans caught onto the usual false prophet tactics he was using, they abandoned him.
However, Q's message quickly spread through different channels (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, conspiracy Youtube) and caught the fanatic attention of a much more technologically illiterate crowd: baby boomers.
While many of these boomers have been part of conspiracy and Doomsday Christianity circles for a very long time (hence the reason why you can see any given conspiracy from the past 40 years injected into the mythos), many more are new to the 'conspiracy' scene and have been radicalized into what can only be considered a cult. Their devotion to Qanon is pure and absolute, to the point where they have lost jobs and family members, profiteers have made thousands off of them, and they would rationalize Qanon himself admitting that he's a roleplayer as a Deep State psyop. They will believe literally anything that remotely fits into the Qanon narrative, regardless of how ridiculous and baseless, and the results are hilarious. Let us harvest the milk.
Where to find the Qultists:
Their reddit home:
http://www.reddit.com/r/GreatAwakeningAlternative:
http://www.reddit.com/r/The_GreatAwakeningDoomsday insanity:
https://www.reddit.com/r/BiblicalQ/Twitter: search #qanon, #cbts, #wwg1wga
More info:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QAnonhttps://rationalwiki.org/wiki/QAnonhttps://www.reddit.com/r/Qult_Headquarters/comments/93v1ui/a_noncomprehensive_timeline_of_qs_failed/ No. 291613
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>>291609Hollywood is packed with pedos and I'm sure there are many people in power who are sexual predators, but that doesn't validate any of this ridiculous pizza parlor numerology black magic end-times bullshit. It's a huge logical jump to go from 'many powerful people are predators' to 'everyone who disagrees with my political position is a satanic 'pedovore' and every child reported missing has actually been kidnapped and shipped to farms where the elites can harvest chemicals from their blood that are easily synthesized in a lab and don't even get you high. also an anonymous shitposter is telling me deep government secrets on 8chan'.
No. 291614
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A common theme in Qultist discussion is how their family members and friends have stopped talking to them over this shit. Here somebody suggests a class action lawsuit against 'the MSM' because of it.
Usually these threads are full of incredibly smug comments along the lines of 'don't be TOO hard on them when everything is exposed, only super smart people like us can 'get it'' and 'we must take pity on them; it's not they're fault that they've been brainwashed'.
No. 291616
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Here's a typical example of a Q drop. Well, typical of what they once were. They've gotten much stupider over time due to what's suspected to be a change of hands. But that's a story unto itself.
As you can see, it's vague to the point where it can be applied to any given significant event involving the Catholic Church (which has a scandal like every other week- the one in May was peanuts compared to the one last month, so why talk about the Pope in May rather than more recently?).
Also, the number on the top right corresponds to the 'drop' number. Qanon's devotees reference them like the Bible. Literally.
No. 291617
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>>291615I just assume that anybody in a position of significant power and/or attention is a shithead of some sort until demonstrated otherwise. There are only a few motivations as to why somebody would want one to begin with, and most of them are shit. This is… something else, though.
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Despite the 'movement' being about taking down the 'Deep State', it's heavily wrapped up in religion, namely Christian Patriotism and Doomsday Patriotism. Some cultists believe that Trump and/or Q have been sent by God to bring about the rapture and/or a 'Golden Age' that begins when the Deep State is executed at Gitmo.
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The movement has a number of cows that distinguish themselves from the rest in their pure batshittery (which is a pretty incredible feat given that they're all insane). The biggest is probably SerialBrain2, who is something of a celebrity in the movement. He believes that Trump is directly communicating to him by referencing his posts through coded language associated with musical notes and shit. A fearsome combination of narcissism and untreated schizophrenia.
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>>291651
It seriously is. These people are genuinely willing to die if this anonymous 8chan poster tells them to.
No. 291778
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This is just as batshit as Trump Derangement Syndrome. I feel bad for the boomers that are being taken in by some channer troll.
No. 292154
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>>291778Don't feel bad for them. Pic related.
They think they're on a different level than you and me. And they are. Just not the level that they think they are.
>>292040You're spot on. Why do you think this:
> It’s so bizarre, but it’s gotten mad traction with boomers, some of the fringier elements of gen X and even the oldest millennials.is? Did the USA breed itself into stupidity or something?
No. 292220
>>292154It disturbs me that people would latch onto this Q stuff. It’s so out there and as OP has said, verges on cultish behavior.
This might sound spergy, but I think that when things appear to be dangerously unstable to a society, some of those very frightened people are going to start latching onto anything, no matter how weird (or even logically impossible) that thing may seem. There’s a need to make things okay again, even if it’s only in their heads, and Q anon fills that role. It distracts them from the shit they’re afraid of with all the ‘follow the clues!’ weirdness. It’s like a puzzle to be solved. They have control over figuring out ‘what it all means’, even though they have zero control over the way the world is flipping out. Every bad headline that they can’t understand is explained. I think it eases their fears to some degree, and that’s why they’re quasi religious about it—why wouldn’t you spread the word about Q when shitty haiku drops on an image board have brought you such relief from your anxieties?
What does creep me out though is that they then spend all their time obsessing about weirder and more disturbing topics. You see them on sites as unrelated as CDAN, they’re everywhere. It’s so bizarre.
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Qanon has really let himself go since he accidentally leaked his own password in July. Most of the 'drops' now are links to right-wing media and the kind of PATRIOT cheerleading that you can find on a boomer Facebook feed. It's pretty likely that ownership of Q has changed hands.
>>292220The potential to become a cult member seems naturally ingrained in some people, since all cult members exhibit the same/similar thought and behavioral patterns when you strip off the clothing on top, but the fact that SO MANY people are buying into this is really troubling. I think that social media has the potential to make cults much larger and more dangerous than ever before, since now the people with that cult-following potential are more likely to be exposed to cults, and cult leaders can get much more exposure. The current political climate doesn't help, either…
> There’s a need to make things okay again, even if it’s only in their heads, and Q anon fills that role. It distracts them from the shit they’re afraid of with all the ‘follow the clues!’ weirdness. It’s like a puzzle to be solved. They have control over figuring out ‘what it all means’, even though they have zero control over the way the world is flipping out. Every bad headline that they can’t understand is explained. I think it eases their fears to some degree, and that’s why they’re quasi religious about it—why wouldn’t you spread the word about Q when shitty haiku drops on an image board have brought you such relief from your anxieties?You're spot on. And yet when you ask them what they're actually doing to help the cause/why a top government official would leak this information to begin with (how is it helpful at all when the Deep State, with its apparently infinite resources, can follow along too?), they can't provide a satisfying answer. As long as they're 'solving the puzzle', they don't have to think any deeper about whether that is meaningful in any way, even if all of it were true. It's a completely shallow sense of satisfaction and control.
>What does creep me out though is that they then spend all their time obsessing about weirder and more disturbing topics. You see them on sites as unrelated as CDAN, they’re everywhere. It’s so bizarre.CDAN has been COMPLETELY taken over by Qultists and /pol/ fanatics. It's disgusting, and the author does absolutely nothing to tell them off. iirc a few of the blind items have been pizzagate-type shit, which puts the credibility of the other blind items into question.
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Some smugness from one Qult member who is losing his wife.
No. 293881
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Here a Qult member believes that he should be treated like people whose actual job it is to combat CP because he follows Qanon. He also basically admits to viewing CP.
Archive link:
https://www.removeddit.com/r/technology/comments/9e2izn/former_microsoft_employees_sue_over_ptsd_from/e5lpm5x/ No. 293886
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Here's one of the 'best' predictions from Qanon. I think this is one of the cases where the person/people behind him were trying to see how ridiculous they could get for a laugh. The Qult genuinely believed that the internet would shut down after a picture of Obama in "tribal attire" was leaked.
No. 294036
>>294025or because it gets tiring evading permabans from 4chan for the dumbest shit
they hand them out like candy constantly there now
No. 294040
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>>294025/r/The_Donald banned all mention of Qanon, whereas 8chan gives him a platform to scam the shit out of gullible boomers and conspiracy theorists. 8chan is in part responsible for this shit. Plus it's full of untreated schizophrenics and other miscreants so I'm not sure why you're suggesting that it's above all of this.