Q is Joe Biden, another non-US Politics thread (Q Anon, Qanon, Q_anon, Joe Biden is Q)

"I love the way butter won't melt in Trump's mouth"

need to see the evidence on this

Those brainwashed cult members cannot overcome our soul force.

What is running out of my nose rn, oh it is my brain which has melted.

if the ultimate endgame for q is "it becomes scientology for people outside of los angeles" then that's fine imo

'(even in each of us)'

Bellingcat had this excellent primer last week as well


https://www.bellingcat.com/news/americas/2021/01/07/the-making-of-qanon-a-crowdsourced-conspiracy/

That's optimistic imo. Q's a dragnet that's been drawn over p much the whole world now. Like the MediaMatters piece says, it takes on a different form and emphasis of nutters in different countries. It's completely easy to ignore Scientlogy and never ever have to deal with it in real life; this, not so much.

xxp

to be clear, i think the endgame will be worse than that

and even if they believe their "soul force" is enough to counter whatever they think is going on, and that "power of prayer" mindset deters them from action, it is still not ideal to have a large group of people praying for the execution of their political enemies.

Soul force vs Space Force

There is literally no end to this shit pic.twitter.com/vDLqbJOcOy

— c a i t l i n (@hello__caitlin) January 21, 2021

She looks unnervingly like a woman I worked with who asked me if cavemen are real after seeing a Geico commercial.

some people might be hanging on but i think these people are currently scattered and 'reeling.' they'll regroup soon enough as another fringey movement, but their moment has passed for now. away to the dustbin!

Like is there really still that much lead paint within reach of America's children?

Vaguely tempted to start a 'What if Trump had been reelected?' counterfactual thread, partly because I wonder how far these people would have taken their little 'game'.

somebody really needs to sit these people down and introduce them to fan fiction

The best fanfic doesn't know it's fanfic, and they know this to be true without knowing it.

xpost I've been saying variations of this for years. It's like they've somehow had zero previous exposure to benign outlets for their wilder imaginings or baser impulses. Go DM a D&D campaign or shred on some CoD, for chrissakes, and stop dragging literally everyone in the world into your waking fever dream.

Does she use her lashes to catch krill

i kind of enjoy watching stupid people tell me the details of what they've found in the corners of their mind labyrinths as long as they keep it to two minutes or less

Like is there really still that much lead paint within reach of America's children?

Not necessary, it's right there in the water

Fox News is worse than lead, imho

I heard some talk of this on a podcast and those chan missives sounded like nothing so much as clues on 3-2-1. So yeah, Q is the reanimated corpse of Ted Rogers and you've won "Dusty" Biden?

I just watched the Leap Day William episode of 30 Rock, there's a train of thought Tracy does in response to a 'clue' re the soup kitchen he's standing next to, that's exactly this.
Tracy: "Remember where I came from." But we all came from the sea! Sea, like the letter 'C' which is part of the alphabet. Alphabet soup. Soup kitchen. Kitchen--
Man: --No, no, don't keep going!
Tracy: The Kitchen Debate with Richard Nixon. Richard M. Nixon. The M Train. Soul train. Chicken soup for the soul. Chicken soup. Soup kitchen.

I, for one, blame Lacan.

I'm loving all these stories about tearful, crestfallen Qberts, but it begs the question: did they really believe this was going to happen? That Democrats and Tom Hanks would be executed for pedophilia at Guantanamo Bay? Or was this all some kind of elaborate role playing game?

I mean, I guess some of them must have believed it, but the majority? It's fucking crazy talk.

Its like sports fandom, you do get het up in the moment

How many self-described religious folks believe in God/gods? etc.

Haha i totally get the Ted Rogers thing.

yes many people believed it and many still do. i saw some meme account on IG post some meme making fun of Q believers because of Biden's inauguration and there were multiple comments in the vain of "trust the plan", "this is going to look stupid in a couple of weeks", clicking through to the user's accounts showed that they were mainly in earnest

and they were all young people

NYT: Biden’s 17 Executive Orders and Other Directives in Detail

:O

I mean:

https://www.reddit.com/r/InsaneParler/comments/l1iufi/insane_parler_qanon_lunatic_crying_and_begging/

It is to laugh

This is playing out over and over again on the QAnon/pro-Trump internet. Whenever someone suggests taking real action, like voting, organizing, forming a new political party, running for office, etc. the response is always the same: Elections are rigged, so it won't matter. pic.twitter.com/TjFtgS0H4f

— Molly Hensley-Clancy (@mollyhc) January 21, 2021

in the sense that elections are generally rigged to prevent lunatics from getting elected to pursue batshit conspiracy theories, yes. these people should be satisfied with the number of nuts they get through as it is.

Belief isn't an all or nothing thing. I think part of the QAnon phenomenon is that believers mostly began by allowing themselves to believe in the possibility that the Q mythology was based in truth. They just gave it a chance. The rest of the work was done by crowd psychology and the seductive nature of the Q mythos, which offered them simple enemies with purely evil motives who would be summarily dealt with by simple retributive justice in the end.

The fact that none of this was detectable in visible reality was easily explained by the super-secret nature of the evil conspiracy and the righteous counter-conspiracy. Q was the prophet who gave them tiny glimpses into the complex machinations of both sides and this solidified its 'reality'. As soon as you believed in Q's reality, you got sucked into the vortex.

I’m okay if they are too demoralized to do anything, including random violence.

For most of them the excitement was in waiting for it all to go down, like kids waiting for Christmas to come. There will be a few who wanted the public executions of their named and known 'enemies' (e.g. Democrats in Congress and state governments) so all-consumingly that when they realize nobody's going to do it for them, they'll start seeking another way for it to happen.

I look forward to the phrase "...before turning the gun on himself" making a comeback.

In the world of domestic violence it never went away.

Cant not read in movie trailer voice, sorry

I know not everyone has patience for Brad Troemel, as he certainly grates on me at times, but I think this is actually really helpful and interesting in understanding how Qanon groups used memes to really spread the conspiracy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xG8wCRmdVmQ

Cant not read in movie trailer voice, sorry

*a sudden deep bass BOOM! of a giant bass drum with the echo canyon reverb setting*

oh really

Lawyer for 'QAnon Shaman' says he feels 'duped' by Trump after not getting a pardon https://t.co/P1eccPXeRk

— Raw Story (@RawStory) January 22, 2021

It's all about the choads he didn't pardon, u see

Trump is ultimately responsible for the storming. I’m happy that the people who were there are being appropriately charged, but the person I want to see held to account most of all is Trump.

Well the funny thing is, per that lawyer, is that they’re clearly thinking of ways that could go. Civil suits, perhaps?

reading that quote he 100% sounds like he's preparing a civil suit

wait you mean like all the QAnon folk civilly suing Trump himself?

cos that would be all kinds of hilarious

that's what I took away from it, they were misled by his lies then he told them to walk to the capitol

next to of course rotting in jail, nothing else would bring me more joy than him having to appear in civil court for lawsuit after lawsuit for years and years and basically being ass out

or should I say more ass out than he already is