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History Comes Inside!
Nov 20, 2004




If the deep state run the show how did trump get elected in the first place according to the q people

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RagnarokAngel
Oct 5, 2006

Black Magic Extraordinaire

History Comes Inside! posted:

If the deep state run the show how did trump get elected in the first place according to the q people

I think their logic is that his win was so overwhelming the deep state could only fudge it so much.

I AM GRANDO
Aug 20, 2006

There’s not much of a gulf between q people and trump voters generally., is there? They’re all prone to violence under the right circumstance.

Ague Proof
Jun 5, 2014

they told me
I was everything
I think Qanon people might be some of the most aware Trump supporters.

They realize that Trump appears to have done almost nothing that they wanted, so they rationalize that by saying things are happening in secret.

They recognize that Trump appears to be a stumbling moron, so they rationalize that by saying it's an act.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice

The Chairman posted:

As long as Trump's president I think the Qanon population's going to remain sated and keep trusting the process. I'd be worried about what happens when he's no longer President, especially if he loses next year or dies suddenly.

I'm more worried about the election. Donny Smoothbrain has absolutely no problems inciting violence to get another boost to his ego. Leading up to the election it'll be all about how the perfidious Democrat is a threat to our nation and "someone" should "do something" about all those vicious, murderous antifa super soldier liberal snowflakes in their safe spaces. I'm thoroughly convinced he's going to tell his followers to "watch the polls" so "illegals" don't vote and, well, hey, ya never know how violent those "illegals" are so maybe have a second amendment solution on hand when you're standing there.

Blue Moonlight
Apr 28, 2005
Bitter and Sarcastic

Blattdorf posted:

If everyone is so concerned about Q, why not just ask the president about it? The press sure seems to spend a lot of time acknowledging Q's existence and disparaging it, but they can't be bothered to prod Trump about it. Isn't the president supposed to be a central figure in all of this?

🍊 posted:

He is, I’m told, an incredible person. The most, amazing, people. I love him, and he, I think, loves me. I have the best followers. The best. They know, they know there’s no collusion. They know it’s a witch hunt. So he does too. I know it. And James Comey, it’s incredible what they let him get away with. Very illegal. The worst.

That’s what would happen. Word salad congratulating himself and vomiting his catchphrases because he has no idea what the gently caress QAnon is beyond that they support him, and he really doesn’t care.

goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

If you ask me about the mole people in the London Underground, I WILL be forced to kill you
Fun Shoe

RagnarokAngel posted:

Honestly people have killed for far less. I think you're really assuming too much about how far reaching this could be. It's pure sensationalism.

Yeah, the nearest comparison I can think of is 90s NWO theories which were way more mainstream and (depending on how exactly you want to classify their influence on the militia movements) had *way* more of a body count.

pop fly to McGillicutty
Feb 2, 2004

A peckish little mouse!

bird food bathtub posted:

I'm more worried about the election. Donny Smoothbrain has absolutely no problems inciting violence to get another boost to his ego. Leading up to the election it'll be all about how the perfidious Democrat is a threat to our nation and "someone" should "do something" about all those vicious, murderous antifa super soldier liberal snowflakes in their safe spaces. I'm thoroughly convinced he's going to tell his followers to "watch the polls" so "illegals" don't vote and, well, hey, ya never know how violent those "illegals" are so maybe have a second amendment solution on hand when you're standing there.

That's too small minded. He'll lead up by saying the election is rigged, then refute the results if he loses. It's a built in defense for not stepping down.

Blattdorf
Aug 10, 2012

"This will be the best for both of us, Bradley."
"Meow."

Blue Moonlight posted:

That’s what would happen. Word salad congratulating himself and vomiting his catchphrases because he has no idea what the gently caress QAnon is beyond that they support him, and he really doesn’t care.

So he'd make a fool of himself and shake Q follower's faith in the whole movement. Wouldn't that be desirable? He'd turn a lot of people away from him.

Blue Moonlight
Apr 28, 2005
Bitter and Sarcastic

Blattdorf posted:

So he'd make a fool of himself and shake Q follower's faith in the whole movement. Wouldn't that be desirable? He'd turn a lot of people away from him.

He makes a fool of himself almost daily, so nothing new there. Followers would just say he has to keep the mainstream media off the scent, trust the plan, blah blah blah, if they don’t treat it as outright confirmation that Q is real.

im on the net me boys
Feb 19, 2017

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Blattdorf posted:

So he'd make a fool of himself and shake Q follower's faith in the whole movement. Wouldn't that be desirable? He'd turn a lot of people away from him.

If you haven't been keeping track, QAnon is literally built around the sort of mental gymnastics where anything validating Q is praised and anything that would seem to invalidate Q is merely disinformation or playing 4 dimensional chess. There is no desireable outcome if Trump talks about Q.

pseudanonymous
Aug 30, 2008

When you make the second entry and the debits and credits balance, and you blow them to hell.

im on the net me boys posted:

If you haven't been keeping track, QAnon is literally built around the sort of mental gymnastics where anything validating Q is praised and anything that would seem to invalidate Q is merely disinformation or playing 4 dimensional chess. There is no desireable outcome if Trump talks about Q.

I think if he talks about Q-anon in a specific and clear way there are some potential voters who would be turned off by that.

I know D&D likes to pretend otherwise, but I do think there are a significant number of voters who are economically fragile and don't give a gently caress about racism. So in a sense, they're passively racist. But these are the same voters who were pro-Bernie and then pro-Trump, the system isn't working for them and they want the system to change. If they see Trump actively courting a lunatic fringe that might help sway them.

GABA ghoul
Oct 29, 2011

Blattdorf posted:

So he'd make a fool of himself and shake Q follower's faith in the whole movement. Wouldn't that be desirable? He'd turn a lot of people away from him.

If you count the times he said Tshinaaa in the speech and add 4 to that you get 17 and the 17th letter of the alphabet is Q. So he outright confirmed Q and now there can be no doubt left.

e: ffs, one of the q accounts outright said that JFK Jr. is dead and they took it as confirmation that he is alive.

fishmech
Jul 16, 2006

by VideoGames
Salad Prong
If all Qanon can manage in about a year and a half is two deaths, it's way the gently caress behind the general Republican party with the 55 school shooting deaths it's directly responsible for in just 2018.

Dr. Arbitrary
Mar 15, 2006

Bleak Gremlin
The "armed feral urban thugs are going to home-invasion you" conspiracy theory is far more dangerous than the goofy Q-Anon poo poo.

Edit:
To elaborate, most of the people who follow the conspiracy theory stuff like Pizzagate or Qanon don't really believe it. They like to sorta believe it, but they don't really believe it. If you really thought that your neighbor had a dungeon full of children that he was abusing, you wouldn't just fart around on the internet talking about it, you'd be calling the police every day or take matters into your own hands.

Only a few Q people have believed the stuff hard enough to actually take it seriously and act, but there are a ton of people who buy personal arsenals because they're afraid of urban gangs attacking their suburb.

Dr. Arbitrary fucked around with this message at 20:28 on Aug 3, 2019

Lurdiak
Feb 26, 2006

I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.


pop fly to McGillicutty posted:

That's too small minded. He'll lead up by saying the election is rigged, then refute the results if he loses. It's a built in defense for not stepping down.

It's pretty clear that was his plan if he lost the first time around.

im on the net me boys
Feb 19, 2017

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I agree that there are presently way more violent movements than QAnon that we should worry about right now but I still think it's not great to be dismissive of how it could get worse

Luigi's Discount Porn Bin
Jul 19, 2000


Oven Wrangler
I worry less about the QAnon mobility scooter corps getting violent and more about cross-pollination - already-violent groups latching onto specific aspects of Q mythology, even if they don't buy into the whole thing.

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

https://twitter.com/travis_view/status/1157762553235136513

See, Qanon thinks that these violent attacks are deep state false flags, mass shooters don't have high regard in their specific community, like they do on 8chan.

pseudanonymous
Aug 30, 2008

When you make the second entry and the debits and credits balance, and you blow them to hell.

im on the net me boys posted:

I agree that there are presently way more violent movements than QAnon that we should worry about right now but I still think it's not great to be dismissive of how it could get worse

It just doesn't seem like it's in the cards for what Q-anon is and the makeup of its followers.

Q-anon: very bad things are happening, you are of the elect in that you know this, a nebulous we are fighting on your behalf, your role is to understand the clues and disseminate the truth.

If any of the various Q-anon prophets call for action, they'll be discredited and called false flag deep-state operations. Christianity is actually a brutally violent doctrine with apocalyptic prophecy, but for basically the last 500 years the people who said: "yes that's true, but you are a believer and essentially a good spectator" are the ones who've attracted followers. It's comparatively rare to see truly religious violence committed by Christians, given they make up about 1/4 of the world's population, spread across every continent.

1stGear
Jan 16, 2010

Here's to the new us.

zoux posted:

https://twitter.com/travis_view/status/1157762553235136513

See, Qanon thinks that these violent attacks are deep state false flags, mass shooters don't have high regard in their specific community, like they do on 8chan.

Ah yes, the Deep State wanted Hurd to not run again so they shot up a Walmart...after he announced he wasn't running again.

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth

1stGear posted:

Ah yes, the Deep State wanted Hurd to not run again so they shot up a Walmart...after he announced he wasn't running again.

no see the white hats are the good guys, so the good guys made Hurd step down because he's...in on the conspiracy against Trump because I think he once disagreed with Trump about the wall maybe?

So THIS is the deep state fighting back by...shooting up a wallmart...

90s Cringe Rock
Nov 29, 2006
:gay:
I believe the deep state are like dogs and they just sort of do things arbitrarily.

SatansOnion
Dec 12, 2011

90s Cringe Rock posted:

I believe the deep state are like dogs and they just sort of do things arbitrarily.

true fact: one time I saw a deep state lizard person fart themselves out of a sound sleep

Chef Boyardeez Nuts
Sep 9, 2011

The more you kick against the pricks, the more you suffer.

SatansOnion posted:

true fact: one time I saw a deep state lizard person fart themselves out of a sound sleep

Stop saying that I'm your WIFE, Gerald

Mantis42
Jul 26, 2010

https://twitter.com/lib_crusher/status/1157124771525681152?s=21

bird with big dick
Oct 21, 2015

zoux posted:

https://twitter.com/travis_view/status/1157762553235136513

See, Qanon thinks that these violent attacks are deep state false flags, mass shooters don't have high regard in their specific community, like they do on 8chan.

The “they think we’re literal garbage” guy may have a point.

Mantis42
Jul 26, 2010

The Satanic Panic in the 80s was about the widespread belief that ritualized child abuse was being carried out by Satanic cults in daycares. Meanwhile, actual evangelical schools and the Catholic Church really WERE carrying out child abuse on a mass scale.

Pizzagate/Qanon represents a widespread belief that the elites are running pedophile sex rings. In real life, well, they are but also Trump is one of them.

The 'populist right', represented by Infowars, believes that the global elite are preparing to genocide the vast majority of the human race and institute a police state. In actuality, we already live in a police state and the elite are planning to sacrifice most of the human race to climate catastrophe while they slink off to New Zealand.

Conspiracy theories aren't even wrong, they're just a form of false consciousness to deal with the crimes of the powerful without sacrificing the belief in violent hierarchy that ALL conservatives believe in. That a billionaire can gently caress kids without problem is a condemnation of billionaires even existing. Contraction Cycles are just a natural result of the inherent contradictions of Capital which is why they only exist on the right.

stringless
Dec 28, 2005

keyboard ⌨️​ :clint: cowboy

Mantis42 posted:

Contraction Cycles are just a natural result of the inherent contradictions of Capital which is why they only exist on the right.

I wouldn't agree with "only". Ideological purity tests are for everyone!

Mantis42
Jul 26, 2010

Marxist-Leninists deal with their contradictions via rational self-criticism, actually.

ashpanash
Apr 9, 2008

I can see when you are lying.

I'm going to assume that's a joke

FRINGE
May 23, 2003
title stolen for lf posting

Mantis42 posted:

Meanwhile, actual evangelical schools and the Catholic Church really WERE carrying out child abuse on a mass scale.
... and the American right wing *cough* "hates" homosexuality and is fixated on child porn.

https://www.insideedition.com/headl...rge-authorities
https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/trump-s-oklahoma-campaign-chair-plead-guilt-child-sex-trafficking-n822461

quote:

Child prostitution charges have been filed against Oklahoma Sen. Ralph Shortey, a member of President Trump’s state leadership team, after he was found with an underage boy in a motel room, authorities said Thursday.

Shortey, 35, a conservative Republican who is married and has two children, was discovered by police in a room that reeked of "raw marijuana," according to a court affidavit seeking a search warrant.

Shortey and the 17-year-old acknowledged they had engaged in conversations about "sexual activities in exchange for money," the document said.

quote:

Trump's Oklahoma campaign chair to plead guilt to child sex trafficking

https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/06/03/trump-transition-figure-arrested-on-child-porn-charges/

quote:

Trump transition figure arrested on child porn charges

George Nader helped arrange a secret meeting in 2017 between Erik Prince and a Putin confidante

...

He helped arrange a meeting in the Seychelles in January 2017 between Erik Prince, a Trump supporter who founded the private security firm Blackwater, and a Russian official close to Russian President Vladimir Putin. The purpose of the meeting was of particular interest to Mueller’s investigators, and some questions about it remain unanswered, even after Mueller issued a 448-page report on his findings.

...

Nader was convicted 28 years ago of transporting child pornography, a case in which he received a reduced sentence after influential figures argued privately to the court that he was playing a valuable role in national security affairs – trying to free U.S. hostages then held in Lebanon.

Time Crisis Actor
Apr 28, 2002

by Hand Knit
Did Voat lock everything behind a registration page?

Spins
Feb 26, 2016

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
I'm at work so must be in haste:
These two shooters, the Garlic Festival and the El Paso one , looking so alike is VERY UNFORTUNATE. I admit its uncanny, however I doubt it's some kind of false flag, we.
But I can imagine how effing nuts Qrazies and conspiracy fans are going rn. I think this is enough to convince those who might have been wavering, and even bring some disillusioned Qtips back to the fold.
Dang.

Only registered members can see post attachments!

FRINGE
May 23, 2003
title stolen for lf posting

Spins posted:

I'm at work so must be in haste:
These two shooters, the Garlic Festival and the El Paso one , looking so alike is VERY UNFORTUNATE. I admit its uncanny, however I doubt it's some kind of false flag, we.
But I can imagine how effing nuts Qrazies and conspiracy fans are going rn. I think this is enough to convince those who might have been wavering, and even bring some disillusioned Qtips back to the fold.
Dang.



Vat grown. Obviously.

Goatse James Bond
Mar 28, 2010

If you see me posting please remind me that I have Charlie Work in the reports forum to do instead

Spins posted:

I'm at work so must be in haste:
These two shooters, the Garlic Festival and the El Paso one , looking so alike is VERY UNFORTUNATE. I admit its uncanny, however I doubt it's some kind of false flag, we.
But I can imagine how effing nuts Qrazies and conspiracy fans are going rn. I think this is enough to convince those who might have been wavering, and even bring some disillusioned Qtips back to the fold.
Dang.



ehh the similarity is pretty much just "has prominent nose that looks kinda flat in the middle", "same hair color", "wears same glasses" (lol)

Feinne
Oct 9, 2007

When you fall, get right back up again.

GreyjoyBastard posted:

ehh the similarity is pretty much just "has prominent nose that looks kinda flat in the middle", "same hair color", "wears same glasses" (lol)

Yeah almost any given detail of their face is very different.

Spins
Feb 26, 2016

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
Smh

Nope

stringless
Dec 28, 2005

keyboard ⌨️​ :clint: cowboy

We already know that a common trait to Qanon is face blindness

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Feinne
Oct 9, 2007

When you fall, get right back up again.

FFT posted:

We already know that a common trait to Qanon is face blindness

Yeah sadly.

I mean we're agreeing people with face blindness will see them as identical but they would also see both of them as being secretly John Candy.

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