QAnon (2 Viewers)

[Dragon]

This organisation and its reach is seriously scary. When the head of the New York Police Department's second-largest police union openly shows his support of this "organisation" then something is seriously wrong!

The head of the New York Police Department's second-largest police union gave a television interview Friday afternoon while sitting in front of a mug emblazoned with QAnon imagery and slogans.

The mug behind Mullins featured the word "QANON" and the hashtag #WWG1WGA, which stands for "where we go one, we go all," a popular slogan among QAnon supporters. At the center of the mug was a large letter Q, which refers to a supposed government insider who, according to QAnon supporters, posts cryptic clues on the Internet about the "deep state."


More than a year ago, the FBI reportedly assessed that QAnon was a dangerous movement that was likely to inspire its most extreme members to commit violent acts of domestic terrorism.

In recent weeks, QAnon supporters have been posting videos of themselves reciting an oath and repeating the "where we go one, we go all" catchphrase that is seen on the mug. They say they are preparing "digital soldiers" for an apocalyptic reckoning, when thousands of "deep state" pedophiles will be arrested and prosecuted at military courts at Guantanamo Bay.

https://us.cnn.com/2020/07/17/us/head-nypd-union-qanon-mug/index.html

 

[SFIDC3]

He and I have a reciprocally douchy relationship here. Do you know him in person?

Naw, do you? I just no a unnecessarily douchy comment when I see one....

 

[Booker]

Looks like Q has been identified…

QAnon founder may have been identified thanks to machine learning

With help from machine learning software, computer scientists may have unmasked the identity of Q, the founder of the QAnon movement.

www.yahoo.com

…two independent teams of forensic linguists who claim they’ve identified Paul Furber, a South African software developer who was one of the first to draw attention to the conspiracy theory, as the original writer behind Q. They say Arizona congressional candidate Ron Watkins also wrote under the pseudonym, first by collaborating with Furber and then later taking over the account when it eventually moved to post on his father’s 8chan message board.

The two teams of Swiss and French researchers used different methodologies to come to the same conclusion.
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And they’re confident in that identification. The French team made of computational linguists Florian Cafiero and Jean-Baptiste Camps told The Times their software correctly identified Furber’s writing in 98 percent of tests and Watkins’ in 99 percent. “At first most of the text is by Furber,” said Cafiero. “But the signature of Ron Watkins increased during the first few months as Paul Furber decreased and then dropped completely.”

 

[SoggyBottomBoy]

Looks like Q has been identified…

QAnon founder may have been identified thanks to machine learning

With help from machine learning software, computer scientists may have unmasked the identity of Q, the founder of the QAnon movement.

www.yahoo.com

This Furber? Just did a simple search on LinkedIn.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-furber-03b9994/

 

[insidejob]

This Furber? Just did a simple search on LinkedIn.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-furber-03b9994/

There are apparently 19 others named Paul Furber on LinkedIn you could choose from. They have them listed on that guy's page in the bottom right hand corner of the page. Rather unfortunate for them right now.

 

[MT15]

This Q stuff isn’t going away, guys:

 

[SystemShock]

This Q stuff isn’t going away, guys:

Wasn't Flynn caught on a hot mic saying Qanon'ers are nuts not long ago?

 

[Optimus Prime]

sounds about right
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A QAnon influencer and grifter who claims she can time travel, who led a campaign to replace elected officials with QAnon supporters, and who boosted a conspiracy theory about foreign interference in the 2020 election in an election lawsuit before the Supreme Court, now wants to become Ohio’s next Secretary of State……

QAnon Grifter Who Claims She Can Time Travel Is Running for Office in Ohio

Secretary of state candidate Terpsehore Maras isn’t even trying to hide her affiliation to QAnon.

www.vice.com

 

[SamAndreas]

sounds about right
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A QAnon influencer and grifter who claims she can time travel, who led a campaign to replace elected officials with QAnon supporters, and who boosted a conspiracy theory about foreign interference in the 2020 election in an election lawsuit before the Supreme Court, now wants to become Ohio’s next Secretary of State……

QAnon Grifter Who Claims She Can Time Travel Is Running for Office in Ohio

Secretary of state candidate Terpsehore Maras isn’t even trying to hide her affiliation to QAnon.

www.vice.com

A time traveler all right, runs from state to state crossing the lines in the darkness of night.

Steals from the needy to be greedy: https://attorneygeneral.nd.gov/site...ns/2020-09-14-MagicCityChristmas-Judgment.pdf

 

[Bigdaddysaints]

I can't believe there are still morons out there who believe this Q junk.. It makes me sad for humanity...

 

[Optimus Prime]

The latest Q theory
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A bizarre new theory is making its way through the ranks of QAnon, with some followers now reportedly believing that former President Donald Trump's unusual pronunciation of "China" is actually a secret message referring to Ukraine.

QAnon, a far-right political movement, has become well known in the past few years for their numerous conspiracy theories. Many of these theories revolve around liberal politicians, including the disproven idea that President Joe Biden stole the 2020 election as a result of widespread voter fraud.

Other QAnon conspiracy theories involve former President Barack Obama and 2020 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. These theories typically concern a reported cabal of liberal elites that QAnon believers say are working behind the scenes.

As Russia's invasion of Ukraine nears the end of week three, the eyes of QAnon conspirators have now turned to Ukraine. The latest QAnon theory concerns the uncommon way in which former President Trump pronounces "China," often emphasizing the word so that it sounds more like "chy-na."

Some QAnon followers now reportedly believe that Trump's pronunciation is purposeful, according to a Monday Vice News report. The pronunciation, these followers allegedly think, is actually a codeword that Trump is using to refer not to China, but to Ukraine...........

MSN

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[Optimus Prime]

I don't know (and I'm glad I don't) but has there been an 'official' Q post lately?

The Q movement seems to be feeding itself

 

[Optimus Prime]

Are you or a loved one feeling serpentine lately? The QAnon-right thinks your COVID-19 vaccine might have been laced with snake blood to inject you with Satan’s DNA.

The false claim is the subject of a new documentary by a far-right bounty hunter turned podcast host. It’s just as baseless as other vaccine conspiracy theories before it (remember the 5G hoax?), but the fraud is going viral on right-wing social media. “There’s a lot of debate whether it’s cobra DNA, is it crate snake DNA,” says Fever Dreams host Will Sommer.

But this sort of gives you a glimpse at the ideas that are taking off.............

MSN

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[Bigdaddysaints]

Are you or a loved one feeling serpentine lately? The QAnon-right thinks your COVID-19 vaccine might have been laced with snake blood to inject you with Satan’s DNA.

The false claim is the subject of a new documentary by a far-right bounty hunter turned podcast host. It’s just as baseless as other vaccine conspiracy theories before it (remember the 5G hoax?), but the fraud is going viral on right-wing social media. “There’s a lot of debate whether it’s cobra DNA, is it crate snake DNA,” says Fever Dreams host Will Sommer.

But this sort of gives you a glimpse at the ideas that are taking off.............

MSN

www.msn.com

So when i shed the Vaccine, i give someone else Satan DNA? cool...

 

[Taurus]

So when i shed the Vaccine, i give someone else Satan DNA? cool...

I, for one, welcome becoming one of the Yuan-Ti overlords.

 

[MT15]

How do people buy this sort of crap? I mean, this isn’t someone who just entertained the thought of “mole children”, he took action.

 

[Taurus]

How do people buy this sort of crap? I mean, this isn’t someone who just entertained the thought of “mole children”, he took action.

Why can't we harness this energy to help children who actually exist?

 

[Optimus Prime]

for what it's worth
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Recent calls to deprogram QAnon conspiracy followers are steeped in discredited notions about brainwashing. As popularly imagined, brainwashing is a coercive procedure that programs new long-term personality changes. Deprogramming, also coercive, is thought to undo brainwashing.

As a professor of religious studies who has written and taught about alternative religious movements, I believe such deprogramming conversations do little to help us understand why people adopt QAnon beliefs. A deprogramming discourse fails to understand religious recruitment and conversion and excuses those spreading QAnon beliefs from accountability.

Deprogramming, a method thought to reverse extreme psychological manipulation, can’t be understood apart from the concept of brainwashing.

The modern concept of brainwashing has its origin in Chinese experiments with American prisoners of war during the Korean War. Coercive physical and psychological methods were employed in an attempt to plant Communist beliefs in the minds of American POWs. To determine whether brainwashing was possible, the CIA then launched its own secret mind-control program in the 1950s called MK-ULTRA.

By the late 1950s researchers were already casting doubt on brainwashing theory. The anti-American behavior of captured Americans was best explained by temporary compliance owing to torture. This is akin to false confessions made under extreme duress.

Still, books like “The Manchurian Candidate,” released in 1959, and “A Clockwork Orange,” released in 1962 – both of which were turned into movies and heavily featured themes of brainwashing – reinforced the concept in popular culture. To this day, the language of brainwashing and deprogramming is applied to groups holding controversial beliefs – from fundamentalist Mormons to passionate Trump supporters.

In the 1970s and 1980s, brainwashing was used to explain why people would join new religious movements like Jim Jones’ Peoples Temple or the Unification Church..........

Despite the pivot to exit counseling, the language of deprogramming persists. The concept of deprogramming rests on the idea that people do not choose alternative beliefs. Instead, beliefs that are deemed too deviant for mainstream culture are thought to result from coercive manipulation by nefarious entities like cult leaders. When people call for QAnon believers to be deprogrammed, they are implicitly denying that followers exercised choice in accepting QAnon beliefs.

This denies the personal agency and free will of those who became QAnon enthusiasts, and shifts the focus to the programmer. It can also relieve followers of responsibility for perpetuating QAnon beliefs.

As I suggested in an earlier article, and as evident in the QAnon influence on the Jan. 6, 2021, capital insurrection, QAnon beliefs can be dangerous. I believe those who adopt and perpetuate these beliefs ought to be held responsible for the consequences.

This isn’t to say that people are not subject to social influence. However, social influence is a far cry from the systematic, mind-swiping, coercive, robotic imagery conjured up by brainwashing..............

'Deprogramming' QAnon followers ignores free will and why they adopted the beliefs in the first place

 

[Optimus Prime]

Q moving away from political conspiracies and going back to normal crazy conspiracies like the moon landing, and magic healing beds
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In a popular QAnon chat group, a woman named Julie was selling hope and a $22,000 cancer treatment.

For “those interested in medbeds,” she wrote in a 36,000-member QAnon group on the chat platform Telegram, “FYI My husband uses a #medbed generator and 4 tesla biohealers for his stage 3 inoperable and aggressive salivary gland tumor. THIS technology is very supportive!”

The message might have sounded like gibberish to outside readers. But in this corner of the internet, where conspiracy theories and alternative health practices run wild, it suggested something barely short of a miracle: the arrival of a much-hyped device that followers think could treat aggressive cancer.

An increasingly popular conspiracy theory falsely centers around the existence of “med beds,” a fabled medical instrument that does everything from reversing aging to regrowing missing limbs. The theory has grown in popularity among followers of far-right movements like QAnon, some of whom claim to be urgently awaiting a med bed to treat severe health conditions..........

MSN

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