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

 

[superchuck500]

Wait. We all agree that Prince Charles is a vampire who had Diana killed and that Elvis is still alive though right?

Two additional questions: (1) What's the Avril Lavigne thing about and (2) people still care about Avril Lavigne?

 

[bdb13]

Two additional questions: (1) What's the Avril Lavigne thing about and (2) people still care about Avril Lavigne?

It's Complicated.

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[superchuck500]

It's Complicated.

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[LA - L.A.]

The original Q was annoying, but helpful.

Coming Soon | Star Trek

www.startrek.com

This post shows how tragically un-hip that I am. I just now realized I missed the opportunity to reference the OQ.

 

[Complex Kid]

Two additional questions: (1) What's the Avril Lavigne thing about and (2) people still care about Avril Lavigne?

I think it's just an updated version of "Paul is Dead" for the pop/skate punk crowd.

 

[Christian]

Alex Jones on JRE this week said QAnon is just a bunch of nerds larping. Not only is that a hilarious way to look at it... it's so true!

 

[Optimus Prime]

Another former follower - her freak out went viral

I think it’s the ‘I have a breathing problem woman”
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........Instead, she went to Target the next morning to buy a bottle of Fiji water, as if everything were normal. It wasn’t. The Scottsdale, Ariz.-based PR professional, a self-described “type A” personality, had spent the pandemic barely eating, barely sleeping, barely socializing with friends.

Instead, “I was all consumed with doom-scrolling on the Internet. I was living in these conspiracy theories. All of this fear porn that I was consuming online was just feeding my depression and anxiety.”

She had found comfort in QAnon, a loose collection of conspiracy theories that touch on everything from politics to covid-19.

En route to grab the water, she noticed a display of masks, the ones to help prevent the coronavirus.

“The culmination of everything I had experienced, like all that energy, just zeroed in on the masks. And I just snapped,” she said.......

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/11/11/masks-qanon-target-melissa-rein-lively/

 

[Optimus Prime]

Article on post election Q
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President Trump’s election loss and the week-long silence of “Q,” the QAnon movement’s mysterious prophet, have wrenched some believers into a crisis of faith, with factions voicing unease about their future or rallying others to stay calm and “trust the plan.”

The uncertainty has been compounded by the abrupt public resignation, also last Tuesday, of Ron Watkins, the administrator of Q’s online sanctuary on the message board 8kun.

Q has gone quiet before. But the abrupt lack of posts since last Tuesday — Election Day, which the anonymous figure had touted for months as a key moment of reckoning — has sparked speculation and alarm among the movement’s most ardent followers.

Some QAnon proponents have begun to publicly grapple with reality and question whether the conspiracy theory is a hoax. “Have we all been conned?” one user wrote Saturday on 8kun.

Wrote another: “HOW CAN I SPEAK TO Q???? MY FAITH IS SHAKEN. I FOLLOWED THE PLAN. TRUMP LOST!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT NOW?????? WHERE IS THE PLAN???”

Trump’s defeat threatens to undermine the tale that Q, a supposed top-secret government operative, has woven over years: that Trump and his allies would soon vanquish a cabal of “deep state” child abusers and Satan-worshiping Democrats, exiling some to the U.S. detention facility in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba............

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/11/10/qanon-identity-crisis/

 

[Xeno]

Alex Jones on JRE this week said QAnon is just a bunch of nerds larping. Not only is that a hilarious way to look at it... it's so true!

Oh god, I kinda sorta agree with Alex Jones? Can anyone recommend an industrial solvent that could take care of how dirty I feel?

Article on post election Q
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President Trump’s election loss and the week-long silence of “Q,” the QAnon movement’s mysterious prophet, have wrenched some believers into a crisis of faith, with factions voicing unease about their future or rallying others to stay calm and “trust the plan.”

The uncertainty has been compounded by the abrupt public resignation, also last Tuesday, of Ron Watkins, the administrator of Q’s online sanctuary on the message board 8kun.

Q has gone quiet before. But the abrupt lack of posts since last Tuesday — Election Day, which the anonymous figure had touted for months as a key moment of reckoning — has sparked speculation and alarm among the movement’s most ardent followers.

Some QAnon proponents have begun to publicly grapple with reality and question whether the conspiracy theory is a hoax. “Have we all been conned?” one user wrote Saturday on 8kun.

Wrote another: “HOW CAN I SPEAK TO Q???? MY FAITH IS SHAKEN. I FOLLOWED THE PLAN. TRUMP LOST!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT NOW?????? WHERE IS THE PLAN???”

Trump’s defeat threatens to undermine the tale that Q, a supposed top-secret government operative, has woven over years: that Trump and his allies would soon vanquish a cabal of “deep state” child abusers and Satan-worshiping Democrats, exiling some to the U.S. detention facility in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba............

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/11/10/qanon-identity-crisis/

Please let Q be Sacha Baron Cohen.. Please let Q be Sacha Baron Cohen..

 

[Optimus Prime]

Please let Q be Sacha Baron Cohen.. Please let Q be Sacha Baron Cohen..

On the one hand yes, it would hilarious if this was all a Sacha Baron Cohen/Andy Kaufman style long con prank

On the other - not so much

This Q stuff has ruined people's lives and families and relationships

It would be like if someone invented a drug that gets you really, really high but also makes you stink. For a full day you have this odor coming from your pores and you smell like you've been sitting in a pool of pig shirt

One the one hand funny, on the other hand - not so much

 

[DaveXA]

On the one hand yes, it would hilarious if this was all a Sacha Baron Cohen/Andy Kaufman style long con prank

On the other - not so much

This Q stuff has ruined people's lives and families and relationships

It would be like if someone invented a drug that gets you really, really high but also makes you stink. For a full day you have this odor coming from your pores and you smell like you've been sitting in a pool of pig shirt

One the one hand funny, on the other hand - not so much

Honestly, if people let Q ruin their lives, they already had bigger problems than Q.

 

[Optimus Prime]

Honestly, if people let Q ruin their lives, they already had bigger problems than Q.

True

I think some people are addicted to conspiracy theories and it's no different than being addicted to anything else

And it's cruel to take advantage of someone's addiction

If someone spikes an alcoholic's drink - that's not that funny

 

[DaveXA]

True

I think some people are addicted to conspiracy theories and it's no different than being addicted to anything else

And it's cruel to take advantage of someone's addiction

If someone spikes an alcoholics drink - that's not that funny

True dat. That said, people ultimately have to take responsibility for their own actions.

 

[zztop]

Unfortunately at least 2 Q believers have won house seats

QAnon goes to Washington: two supporters win seats in Congress - Roll Call

QAnon is heading to Congress, as victories by Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert put the delusional conspiracy in the halls of power.

www.rollcall.com

I wonder if this will spread like wildfire amongst the (R) just like the TEA party did. I thought the TEA party was a bunch of lunatics, but this Q nonsense takes it to a whole new level. I view trump as basically the embodiment of all the TEA party insanity (I remember the TEA party griping about incandescent bulbs being phased out for more energy efficient ones - sound familiar?)

 

[SFIDC3]

Honestly, if people let Q ruin their lives, they already had bigger problems than Q.

Yeah, like I've said before an old friend I grew up with (who taught me how to play guitar) and really loved like a brother is in the Q cult. He divorced his 1st wife, joined the military, became a born again, married a woman much younger and preceded to have a bunch of kids (after having 2 from his 1st marriage). He is (as far as I know) unemployed and they travel the country in a Winnebago.

It is really, really hard for me, can't believe it. He is one of the last people I would think that could be conned so easily....

 

[samiam5211]

People have to take responsibility for their own actions, but we as a society should hold people who take advantage of them responsible.

If an elderly person is scammed out of their money, the scammer faces charges.

Scamming someone to take over their thought process is at least as bad as stealing money.

We need to redefine free speech, because telling a story to mentally ill people who then believe they are a soldier in an imaginary war is a danger to society.

 

[insidejob]

Having these nuts infiltrate the federal government is scarier than Trump being president. I get that they are in such a minority that their views won't get any traction, but that could change. The tea party completely warped the republican party and if these clowns manage to convince those clowns to join their cult, watch out. Too many clowns is never a good thing.

 

[DaveXA]

People have to take responsibility for their own actions, but we as a society should hold people who take advantage of them responsible.

If an elderly person is scammed out of their money, the scammer faces charges.

Scamming someone to take over their thought process is at least as bad as stealing money.

We need to redefine free speech, because telling a story to mentally ill people who then believe they are a soldier in an imaginary war is a danger to society.

Well, I'm not ready to start redefining free speech. Do we really want to start policing people's thinking? That's a far more murky issue than I'm willing to go. I mean, where does that line get drawn?