QAnon seems to be ramping up.

[hamsterjill]

I’ll not post their crap here. But I follow a former high school classmate who is totally submerged in Q and she has been posting a lot of scary crap on Facebook the last couple of days.

This shit is dangerous even if it isn’t true because it emboldens the crazies who live amongst us. Yes, I report her posts all the time. She gets kicked off and then gets back on after a period of time in Facebook jail.

They are literally advocating for the overthrow of democracy. Again, most sane people understand it’s just made up crap. But to the crazies who think it’s real, they may want to act on it.

Scary times.

[Sky Jewels]

1. QAnon has been around for five years or so.

You'd think these dipshits would finally realize that not one Q prediction has come true in all that time, but nooooo. Some of the nuts just double down on the crazy.

[hamsterjill]

5. The crazies don't have the ability to reason

And see that nothing has happened even with all of the predictions.

But you can’t reason with crazy either, and in my opinion, that’s the part that is scary. They will do as they believe they are being asked.

[Warpy]

21. Uh, yeah, they do, but it's garbage in, garbage out

because they're given carefully targeted scraps of information plus disinformation and told to connect the dots between them. It's a slick as hell psyops campaign and it's working.

Along with connecting the dots, they're given praise for being so far ahead of the rest of us, and that keeps them coming back for more.

I'm not conedmning people who got sucked into this stuff, it's seductive as hell. I just want to know who is leading these people around. I sincerely hope there is a group of geeks somewhere in the government who are tracking this shit down to its source and that source is revealed soon. That guy in South Africa who started it for the lulz is no longer herding the sheep. I want to know who took over from him.

[Trueblue1968]

37. I THINK YOU SHOULD report all her horrible posts to facebook !!! i'D DO THAT.

[Scrivener7]

7. It seems like it's an identity thing. People who believe

it think they know something the rest of us don't. And that makes them smarter than the rest of us and gives them something to belong to. And from what I have seen, they tend to be the ones who have never known more than others and have never belonged. So they can't give it up.

[Sky Jewels]

11. Yes, that's a good point. Similar to Trumpers.

They've invested so much time and so much of their identity in this idiocy, there's no going back.

[hamsterjill]

15. I totally agree.

But the more of them, the more they feel that they are “right” and that emboldens them.

[yonder]

22. +1.

[brooklynite]

9. "Q" never made predictions...

It posted cryptic statements that adherents interpreted themselves; when a prediction didn't come to pass, they simply reinterpreted the post.

[IronLionZion]

25. I've told them that. And asked them how long is this going to take.

And they respond with more Q crap like trust the plan, deep state is hiding the truth, the great awakening is coming, etc.

They refuse to admit they've fallen for a fraud.

[Orrex]

27. Every time their bullshit conspiracy theories are disproven, they consider them proven.

[paleotn]

31. Cults don't operate on proof or logic.

That's the thing that irritates me the most about these people. No matter how hard you try, or how well you articulate your response, you just can't reason rationally with these dumb mother fuckers.

[Sky Jewels]

32. Very true.

And, to be fair, the death-cult religion Christianity has been waiting 2,000 years for the major prediction of their "faith" to actually happen, so its track record is exponentially worse than Q's. I always want to tell zealots: "Spoiler Alert: Jesus wasn't magic and he's never returning to Earth." The only difference between a cult like Q and other major religions is that the major ones have enough cultural familiarity that people don't think of them in the same terms.

[cilla4progress]

2. How many

are there?

[hamsterjill]

3. How many what?

How many posts?

Several, and she’s learned to post stuff in the comment section on Facebook because comments are less likely to be flagged. Also there’s a lot actually.

[cilla4progress]

8. How many

Qanoners..(?l..

[hamsterjill]

12. No idea.

But I googled some of the information she had posted and it seems to be spreading on multiple sites.

It’s all made up stuff. But again, those crazy enough to follow Q aren’t likely to worry about what is real versus what is made up. That is the aspect that is frightening to me.

[cilla4progress]

14. I'm just trying to discern

how frightened to be based in how big a threat they are...in part based on how many of them there are?

[hamsterjill]

16. Q has been around a long time.

My personal belief is that they are worldwide. I have no way of knowing or proving that. It’s my gut feeling.

[OneGrassRoot]

23. It is worldwide.

Having followed it from the inception, before becoming more widely know, I can tell you that it is most definitely a presence in all western democracies. By design.

[CloudWatcher]

26. by design

I just wonder if the original Q drafts are in Russian or Chinese.

[ramen]

19. A truly shocking number:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/27/us/politics/qanon-republicans-trump.html

This was 15 months ago, so I'm not sure about changes since then.

[BunnyMcGee]

29. Check out this

and look at the pdf link on the right
[link:https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.15715?context=cs|

No Calm in The Storm: Investigating QAnon Website Relationships

Hans W. A. Hanley, Deepak Kumar, Zakir Durumeric

QAnon is a far-right conspiracy theory whose followers largely organize online. In this work, we use web crawls seeded from two of the largest QAnon hotbeds on the Internet, Voat and 8kun, to build a QAnon-centered domain-based hyperlink graph. We use this graph to identify, understand, and learn about the set of websites that spread QAnon content online. Specifically, we curate the largest list of QAnon centered websites to date, from which we document the types of QAnon sites, their hosting providers, as well as their popularity. We further analyze QAnon websites' connection to mainstream news and misinformation online, highlighting the outsized role misinformation websites play in spreading the conspiracy. Finally, we leverage the observed relationship between QAnon and misinformation sites to build a highly accurate random forest classifier that distinguishes between misinformation and authentic news sites. Our results demonstrate new and effective ways to study the growing presence of conspiracy theories and misinformation on the Internet.

[Runningdawg]

4. Q is the child of the Tea Baggers and social media

1-6 wasn't the first time a gallows has been erected near the capital.

[hamsterjill]

17. Trump has used them.

He knows how to punch their buttons, and we don’t have anyone on the Republican side contradicting it because they aren’t taking it seriously.

[blm]

6. Two words work for me more often than not: Prove it.

Would you bet your house without evidence that the propaganda you believe is true?

Go to court without legal evidence that the propaganda you believe is true?

Would you risk the lives of your family without evidence the propaganda you believe is true?

Murder your fellow citizens and neighbors without evidence the propaganda you believe is true?

Destroy a democracy without evidence the propaganda you believe is true?

[brooklynite]

10. "Would you bet your house without evidence that the propaganda you believe is true?"

See the Millerites in the mid-19th Century for an answer...

[hamsterjill]

13. I agree for normal, rational people.

Rational arguments do not work with these people. They just think you aren’t in the group.

[AnotherMother4Peace]

18. Q is part of trump's cult. The cult will kill for their leader. trump is ramping up his cult/base.

It's all there in history (recent and before). Look at Jim Jones, Charles Manson, David Koresh, etc, etc, etc,

We have great reason to be concerned because they're heavily armed w/a deranged master.

[Beartracks]

24. BUt... but the lack of evidence IS the proof!!!1!

That's how deep this shit goes, man! That's how big the conspiracy is!!!11!


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[TheRealNorth]

28. Yup

There is always an excuse.

[blm]

33. Oh, I am fully aware it won't work on all of them.

Have confronted those brick walls and know when to make note of it turn around. I live in Mark Meadows territory.

We lucked out that enough Repubs came to their senses to vote out Cawthorn in the primary, though. 😉

[SouthernDem4ever]

20. Do you report her posts to the FBI?

That is who needs to be tracking her.

[Justice matters.]

30. FBI contact link:

https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2015/crime-in-the-u.s.-2015/home

If you see something suspicious, say something.

[flying_wahini]

34. She just may get the attention she craves.

[Snackshack]

35. Yep

Get ready.

Over the next few weeks the entire apparatus that is MAGA is going to ramp up. The GOP desperately wants the House so they can put operation chaos in play and start issuing subpoenas to every Dem and their dog walker and kill the current investigations. It’s going to get very nasty.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

36. TFG is encouraging this crap

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[LetMyPeopleVote]

38. They aren't even hiding it anymore.

Link to tweet

[hamsterjill]

39. Yep. They can't wait to do away with democracy.

And install Trump as dictator. It all just makes me want to throw up!