Does this sound like anyone here?
I know, I know, the article is from CNN, but it so reminds me of a few of the posters here.
I know, I know, the article is from CNN, but it so reminds me of a few of the posters here.
Article on QAnon "escapee"
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After this election debacle for the GOP, will there be support groups for ex-Qs wanting to get their lives back? Will there be an entire industry/sub-industry devoted to rehabbing ex-Qs the way addicts go to rehab?
The whole Q thing looks an awful lot like addictive behavior to me . . . .
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It's cult behavior.
"QAnon is a virtual cult that began in late 2017."
Meets all the criteria. As do its adherents.
Slight correction. The neurotic paranoid fan fiction that drives it, started just before the election, though it wasn't called Q yet.
It's not remotely believable. Its' stupid as f**k.
Considering that the real world wide human trafficking organization is Semion Mogilevich and the Russian mob, and the Russian mob is now closely tied to Russian military intelligence, which is controlled by Putin, it's hard not to suspect its original source is Russian and that it's a projection ie "accuse others of what you are guilty of", that they are famous for.
All of this Trump shit, nationalistic shit, and weird behavior by some world leaders, is about dirty money being floated and laundered by Russian kleptocrats and the Russian mob. It may be the dirt they hold on many enablers. Russia is known to go after government officials, and media figures. They use honey pots, bribes, and any dirt they can find or create. Russia is no longer a nation, it's a state run, world wide, criminal organization with nukes and a large very effective propaganda machine.
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A Game Designer’s Analysis Of QAnon
Playing with reality
QAnon grows on the wild misinterpretation of random data, presented in a suggestive fashion in a milieu designed to help the users come to the intended misunderstanding. Maybe “guided apophenia” is a better phrase. Guided because the puppet masters are directly involved in hinting about the desired conclusions. They have pre-seeded the conclusions. They are constantly getting the player lost by pointing out unrelated random events and creating a meaning for them that fits the propaganda message Q is delivering.
There is no reality here. No actual solution in the real world. Instead, this is a breadcrumb trail AWAY from reality. Away from actual solutions and towards a dangerous psychological rush. It works very well because when you “figure it out yourself” you own it. You experience the thrill of discovery, the excitement of the rabbit hole, the acceptance of a community that loves and respects you. Because you were convinced to “connect the dots yourself” you can see the absolute logic of it. This is the conclusion you arrived at.
Playing with reality
QAnon grows on the wild misinterpretation of random data, presented in a suggestive fashion in a milieu designed to help the users come to the intended misunderstanding. Maybe “guided apophenia” is a better phrase. Guided because the puppet masters are directly involved in hinting about the desired conclusions. They have pre-seeded the conclusions. They are constantly getting the player lost by pointing out unrelated random events and creating a meaning for them that fits the propaganda message Q is delivering.
There is no reality here. No actual solution in the real world. Instead, this is a breadcrumb trail AWAY from reality. Away from actual solutions and towards a dangerous psychological rush. It works very well because when you “figure it out yourself” you own it. You experience the thrill of discovery, the excitement of the rabbit hole, the acceptance of a community that loves and respects you. Because you were convinced to “connect the dots yourself” you can see the absolute logic of it. This is the conclusion you arrived at.
Qanon is known for vague predictions of big announcements or expose's of liberal corruption, such as "Watch for big news next Tuesday of yet another Democrat in the swamp who has committed (fill in the blank.) !!! Guaranteed!!!" If it comes true, someone takes credit for predicting it; if it doesn't come true, it is forgotten in the intervening avalanche of hundreds of other similar vague predictions.
This is a tactic identical to the predictions of psychics/fortunetellers who vaguely claim they had a vision of a airplane crashing in Paris or Texas or Africa or all three:
plane crash - World Predictions
worldwidepredictions.com
One of the stupidest air crash predictions I read about came near the end of the year and "predicted" that, in the coming year, a plane with red and blue markings would crash (without saying where). There are dozens of airlines around the world with red and blue markings in their logos and hundreds of planes in their fleets flying all over the world in indeterminate flying conditions.
Don't need to be a knowledgable insider to make this kind of prediction of either expose's or crashes. But the gullible believe them anyway.
I really never spent much time looking at this simply because it is so preposterous on it's face. Cults usually brainwash victims while in close quarters for a period of time. Idiots that believe this nonsense likely don't read much, so how are they indoctrinated?
I think this is something our schools need to understand and combat. Too many people believe this stuff without really thinking about it. Kids need to be better equipped to sift through BS.
Are you saying they don’t have a brain to wash?
I guess. I honestly don't know the answer to this...
Are there hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands who have bought into this? What are the outward signs? How do we know when we see/hear one?
Semion Mogilevich?? Now where have we heard that name before? Bruce Ohr, Lisa Page? What is the connection between those 2 (in particular), Moglievich, and the soon to be former POTUS Donald J Trump? Inquiring, (non-cultist) minds may want to know...
"Amidst President Donald Trump’s ongoing threats to revoke security clearances from various critics, perhaps the most mysterious person on his enemy list is Bruce Ohr, the Justice Department lawyer who has repeatedly been a Trump target for reasons that have never been clearly articulated. Ohr has never criticized Trump as far as anyone is aware, and has worked at the Justice Department as an award-winning civil servant for nearly thirty years in Republican and Democratic administrations alike.
It has been noted that Ohr had ties to the notorious Christopher Steele dossier and that his wife worked for Fusion GPS, which hired Steele, a former British agent, to investigate Trump. But there is quite likely another reason which could trouble Trump even more: Ohr’s job in the Justice Department involved facing off against Russian crime boss Semion Mogilevich whose operatives have been using Trump branded properties to launder millions of dollars for more than three decades. If the FBI’s investigations turn toward Trump’s ties to Russian organized crime, which is entirely foreseeable, the president may be interested in trying to delegitimize those efforts as he has attempted with other aspects of special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe. What the public should also understand is how Mogilevich has served as an agent for Vladimir Putin’s efforts in the United States and abroad.
If one tracks Trump’s ties to Russia, the name Mogilevich pops up more than any single name, beginning in 1984 when alleged Mogilevich operative David Bogatin bought five condos in Trump Tower for $6 million in cash. Over the years, no fewer than 1,300 Trump-branded condos were sold in all cash purchases to anonymous shell companies—the two criteria that set off alarm bells among anti-money laundering authorities. In 2002, after Trump had gone belly up in Atlantic City, Bayrock, a real estate development company that allegedly had ties to Mogilevich, moved into Trump Tower and partnered with Trump—in the process bailing out the bankrupt real estate mogul and putting him in a position to eventually run for the presidency.
And Ohr is not the only Mogilevich specialist who has been the subject of Trump’s ire. Last September, former FBI lawyer Lisa Page was fired from her position on Mueller’s probe into the Trump-Russia scandal after anti-Trump text messages exchanged between her and Peter Strzok came to light. (Strzok, a member of Mueller’s team with whom Page was having a relationship, was also fired.)
Understanding Trump vs. Bruce Ohr: Think Russia’s top crime boss, Semion Mogilevich
Amidst President Donald Trump’s ongoing threats to revoke security clearances from various critics, perhaps the most mysterious person on his enemy list is Bruce Ohr, the Justice Department lawyer who has repeatedly been a Trump target for reasons that have never been clearly articulated. Ohr...
www.justsecurity.org
QAnon received earlier boost from Russian accounts on Twitter, archives show
Russian government-backed social media accounts nurtured the QAnon conspiracy theory in its infancy, earlier than previously reported, according to interviews with current and former Twitter executives and archives of tweets from suspended accounts.
www.reuters.com
"On August 19, President Donald Trump praised believers of QAnon — a movement based on the unfounded conspiracy theory that a cabal of elite Americans run a child trafficking ring and are secretly fighting to destroy the president.
Followers of the QAnon conspiracy theory passionately believe that Trump himself is actively fighting this cabal, which they also allege involves Hollywood power-players and several Democrats.
Disciples of the unfounded theory have been accused of violence, attempted kidnapping, attempted murder, and other criminal acts. The FBI field office in Phoenix warned in a bulletin last year that the group was becoming a domestic terrorism threat, and the same determination was made in a July report from the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point. Many of the accused consider themselves to be vigilantes seeking justice where the US government has not. "
QAnon conspiracy theorists have been linked to 12 alleged crimes. Here are the incidents said to be connected to the movement and its followers.
Believers in QAnon claim that Donald Trump is the country's savior from a cabal of powerful figures involved in activities such as child trafficking.
www.insider.com
I'm gonna say 100,000's of thousands including (in terms of Trump's attacks on the legitimacy of the election) his lawyer Sydney Powell. She is also Flynn's lawyer and besides being a Kook on the Mas level, she is a long time QAnon adherent... In fact I imagine we'll see more of the contents of this exercise in lunacy making it's way to various threads here in the next few days...
Thanks, I just searched his Twitter account. I don’t see the hashtag. Is it under an assumed name?
None of the conservatives here knew who 4-chan was, or the proud boys, or the boogaloos. When is it a lack of engagement or willfull ignorance?
#WWG1WGA
Their rallying cry is "where we go one, we go all," a line from the 1996 Jeff Bridges sailing adventure "White Squall" that they misattribute to President Kennedy.
The phrase is frequently abbreviated to "WWG1WGA," which Roseanne Barr — one of several celebrity QAnon supporters — tweeted in June 2018.
What is the QAnon conspiracy theory?
A conspiracy theory that explains everything and nothing simultaneously takes off among Trump fans.
www.cbsnews.com
#WWG1WGA
Their rallying cry is "where we go one, we go all," a line from the 1996 Jeff Bridges sailing adventure "White Squall" that they misattribute to President Kennedy.
The phrase is frequently abbreviated to "WWG1WGA," which Roseanne Barr — one of several celebrity QAnon supporters — tweeted in June 2018.
What is the QAnon conspiracy theory?
A conspiracy theory that explains everything and nothing simultaneously takes off among Trump fans.
How do you guys keep up with this? I had no idea what that meant. I am a terrible cult follower. I need more time away from work learning about this stuff.
But you are very up on the leftist AOC cult. I wonder why?
The Cooler is a great teaching site thanks to the Liberals. I had no idea there was any such thing as Gamergate and Pizzagate. What’s that say about anyone spending hours reading about the crazy stuff?
Not really. I’ve seen is news clips. I follow her two accounts on Twitter. Very seldom read her tweets
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Trumpism is actually much more like a cult. Look at the civil war brewing in Georgia right now. His followers will run into a moving propeller.
A GOP civil war rattles Georgia Republicans at inconvenient time
This is not how Georgia Republicans imagined the first days of a pivotal runoff campaign would go.
Liberals believe Trump only paid $750 in federal income tax too.
I don’t plan on running into any propellers. I believe the Dems cheated in elections long before Trump.
That said Trump should concede and move on. Best thing he can do right now is get republicans out in GA to make sure the Dems don’t win the two senate seats. I believe Schumer when he says they will change America and the World. I don’t want his/their change.
All this crazy stuff keeps going mostly because liberals keep talking about it. Few conservatives give a rip about gamergate, pizzagate, or Q ????. Yet the liberals believe those things are about to do away with democracy as we know it.
I am sure that is completely equal to saying Democrats running a massive child sex ring.
Not close to equal. Many believe that anything in the NYT is equivalent to Moses and the stone tablets. Pizzagate is the fringiest fringe.
Look what else Lin Wood accomplished this week:
Lin Wood Scores Another Victory, Kyle Rittenhouse OUT of Jail
Rack up another win for powerhouse attorney L. Lin Wood. While fighting for America alongside Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, he’s still finding time to represent his other clients, most notably Kyle Rittenhouse. And thanks to Wood, Kyle is OUT of jail tonight. Check it out: Trending: WEF...
welovetrump.com
Kyle Rittenhouse Was Released on $2 Million Bail Thanks to Donations from Conservative Activists
The Illinois teenager was charged with killing two men and wounding another during protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
And, he's in tremendous company: My Pillow Lindell and ...
Concession is overrated. We have a process for choosing the president. That process is not finished. In the absence of court orders the process will proceed. Those who think democracy is being undermined need to take remedial civics.
He could clear that up by releasing his taxes. What’s he hiding?
I have no idea what he's hiding if anything besides his privacy. I doubt if releasing his taxes will solve anything. If his taxes were printed out, the paper would probably fill a box car. I doubt anybody will understand it let alone agree on what taxes were paid, how they were paid, or when were they were paid.
If it wasn't for wingnut pearlclutchers here, and Foxnews, few people would have heard much about AOC.
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