Q-anon and "The Storm".
 

An old friend who is unfortunately a conspiracy theory aficionado put me on to this. As with religion in general, I am incapable of this degree of faith in the unverified word of someone I have no reason to trust.
http://www.newsweek.com/how-storm-bi...s-story-796725

There is obviously an international conspiracy to use propaganda mindworms to induce outright mental illness in susceptible individuals.

This is from Newsweak. A medium which for several years has been pushing war.

Newsweek is infinitely more credible than Infowars or 4 Chan.

Do you consider the Wash Post any better than Newsweek? This originated at the Wash Post (link to Chicago Trib).

The conspiracy theory behind a curious Roseanne Barr tweet, explained

Wow. And I thought Whell and Zero were looney tunes. This stuff is madness. Hard to imagine anyone takes it seriously, but when you consume InfoWars, Faux and Limblow as your “news”, I suppose it’s possible.

Q-anonsense.
The far right is struggling to contain Qanon after giving it life https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...t-life-n899741

Be something if Steve Bannon the one behind all of this Q $hit.

I'm thinking it's entirely possible Q is a LARP, pranking the fanboyz and fangalz.

More Q-anonsense background.
How three conspiracy theorists took 'Q' and sparked Qanon https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...-qanon-n900531

The Soros conspiracy theories nonsense.
 

BBC News - Why is billionaire George Soros a bogeyman for the hard right?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-49584157

"The church of QAnon": How a bizarre conspiracy theory is linked to evangelical Christianity

https://www.salon.com/2020/05/24/the...nity-_partner/

Lunatics, all.

QAnon groups have millions of members on Facebook, documents show
The preliminary results of an investigation by Facebook shed new light on the scope of activity and content from the QAnon community on the platform.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...-show-n1236317

Imagine millions of clowns as looney as Insane out there! :eek: WTF is wrong with people!?

Crisis cults are very attractive to people who highly need a way to feel OK in, well, a crisis. And we right now are having a long term political/economic crisis that is enriching a few oligarchs while impoverishing the many, a pandemic crisis that is so poorly managed it is killing a thousand plus people a day, and an acute economic crisis caused by the pandemic and aggravated by derelict leadership, and more political crisis stemming from the demagogic/authoritarian efforts to distract from it all as the election looms. Hell, it's a wonder we don't have 10 Q-Anons.

Trumpism itself is a 'crisis cult,' of course.

Down the internet QAnonsense rabbit hole, one woman's story:
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...-mask-n1236695

We need much stronger tort, libel, slander laws in this country. Something along the line to protect against this form of misguided mind control of the vulnerable.

You don't have to brainwash all of the people all of thectine--just 50%+1 of the ones that vote. Not even that many with the electoral college involved....

Dear God, it's worse and worse!
Folks are willingly gullible to utter nonsense and now, it's infecting 'Pubs with, what appears to me to be, foreign backed internet trolls LARPing these fools.
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinio...ng-ncna1236845

From FB:
"We have instincts to love hero figure leaders and hate enemies and villains. This means it feels good and right to activate these instincts. That's how they work to motivate us. Critical thinking, in comparison, is generally difficult and not very emotionally rewarding at all. Indeed, if you haven't been doing it, the results are just about certain to be quite unpleasant."

Something from FB worthwhile!:)

Man Known as BabyQ Is in Trouble for Using Synthetic Penis
Q-TIP
Just your average day in the Qniverse.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/right-...ynthetic-penis

These clowns would be amusing except for the fact that so many are swept up in their Insane world.

I think concocting harmful belief systems that ensare people in obsessive, insane thought patterns should be a crime. It directly compares to propagating computer viryses.

QAnon fans spread fake claims about real fires in Oregon

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/11/tech/...ory/index.html

Like Insane, who posts untruths like these constantly, these people are dangerous, and must be silenced.

Something I had not realized, but it's obvious when pointed out: QAnon in a Nazi cult, rebranded. If you've ever looked at the 'Protocols of the Elders of Zion,' the QAnon schtick should be very familiar....
https://www.justsecurity.org/72339/q...ult-rebranded/

A crime protected by the First Amendment. :cool:

Thought police?

They're already here ...

1984, The Minority Report, Brazil ...

Just flirting with the idea, guys. I'm definite that the crime of mental poisoning exists, but I'm still a bit unsure about how well trying to detect and punish it would go....

BTW, let's not lose sight of the QAnon-Nazi comparison. The parallels with classic anti-semitism and the blood libel are actually stunning.

QAnon Key Figure Revealed as Financial Information Security Analyst from New Jersey

https://www.logically.ai/articles/qa...rom-new-jersey

Having worked with IT types for many years before retirement, I'm not at all surprised at this clown's CV. Many in IT are very narrowly educated, with the Liberal Arts barely or never being a part of their education. The ones I worked with were fanatical players of violent "kill or be killed" video games. They were not capable of having a civil conversation about art, music or literature.

The websites this pig was running have a familiar ring to them: they sound very much like the sites our resident conspiracy theorist and IT guy Insane keeps posting "news" from.

His primary QAnon site has been shut down.

What are the true goals of QAnon? It's the 21st century's ultimate catfish scheme
All the elements of the QAnon conspiracy theory have been carefully selected and repackaged — but by whom, and why?

https://www.salon.com/2020/09/13/wha...atfish-scheme/

Wow. Sounds eerily like the nonsense this Insane clown posts here. He's very likely an adherent of this insanity.

The truth is right in front of them. Plain to see. Out in the open.
Yet will believe this conspiracy propaganda no matter how outrageous!!!!!!!!!

Catfishing. First the chum, then the hook. Then reel 'em in!

People with extremist views less able to do complex mental tasks, research suggests
Cambridge University team say their findings could be used to spot people at risk from radicalisation

https://www.theguardian.com/science/...earch-suggests

Explains a lot about morons like Whell, the Insane clown, this new "reason-less" clown...

'Biden shut down that pipeline and now the price of gas has shot up $0.39 and the stock market crashed.'
'The Confederacy was run by Democrats so, therefore all Democrats today are racists.'

This is the depth of your average Trump voter. All that stuff behind the headline is just too boring and confusing for them.

it just occurred to me that axiom that the modern day godfather of Republicanism Ronald Reagan popularized, "trust but verify" has somehow escaped the trumpers. They cannot analyze information or confront facts, which is a complex thought process. So sad and this explains why.

I paraphrase as "don't trust, verify".
BTW, is citizen X in the penalty box?

In a box of some sort, I guess. Don't really care.

I noticed him blatantly crossing some lines. I speculate he wasn't getting what he liked here, we didn't trigger so easily. Moderator action would offer a 'face-saving' exit, in his mind.

But keep in mind actually discussing moderator action is a sure path to the penalty box.