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The QAnon Conspiracy Theory: A Security Threat in the Making?

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Post by QuesnayJr »

anthony_romeo wrote: post #74
sunseb wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Media are endlessly debunking QAnon and PizzaGate, yet no media is investigating things like Epstein network (Mr Clinton traveled like 30 times in the famous island - he must really liked the beach).

I'm pretty sure I've heard plenty about the Epstein network from the mainstream media over the past couple of years. Are you really sure there's no media investigating it?

I literally heard about Clinton palling around with Epstein from the mainstream media. The media has never been shy about reporting anti-Clinton stories.

Re: The QAnon Conspiracy Theory: A Security Threat in the Making?

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Post by confeit »

carry_bit wrote: post #91
confeit wrote: post #81

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I am convinced that Q, if not started, was quickly taken over and turned into a Russian psyop. I expected the Mueller report to validate this (gross online astroturfing campaigns by state actors), but unless it is in the redacted parts, it is not there. But even casually investigating banned Twitter accounts used for Russian propaganda, you see a lot of clear connections with the "totally organic" Christian MAGA Qano…

> I believe Q was initially conceived in case Trump had lost the election When would've that been? The first "drop" by Q happened on October 28, 2017.

Before the elections, when Putin thought that Trump would lose, and influence campaigns were designed to promote him as a detractor and divider, calling out the rigged elections and the deep state swamp. With Roger Stone laundering Russian "opposition research", like he did with Wikileaks, at that time a front for Russian intelligence.

4Chan has been very involved with these intelligence ARGs since after Project Chanology. Pedowood morphed into Pizzagate. "Seth Rich murder" was pushed hard on 4Chan, to detract from the fact that the Russians hacked the democrats. And it works: Instead of being insulted and angry that a foreign nation state so polutes the brains of your country and riles up the population to the level of riots and extreme polarization, some like to think that Hillary had Seth Rich assassinated for leaking. With so much smoke, who knows what to think? All the while you see artificial KONY2012-style meme campaigns accusing Mueller of being a deep state fixer, synced on Twitter, Facebook, and 4chan.

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Post by rblatz »

carry_bit wrote: post #20
rblatz wrote: post #6

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This already happened because of QAnon. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/22/us/pizzagate-attack-sente... These people see a powerful satanic child raping cabal of power that run things from the shadows. Their champion is Donald Trump, if he were to lose this election it's not a reach to see an uptick in these sorts of attacks. Because, honestly, if this conspiracy were true, the only moral thing to do would be to oppo…

The first drop by Q happened months after that story...

Looks like I got my the left is full of pedo's conspiracies confused. I think the general point still stands.

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Post by dang »

onyva wrote: post #135
99_00 wrote: post #134

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>Russia collusion is not a conspiracy It's a "conspiracy theory", not a "conspiracy". >Like father like son. Proverbs aren't arguments or evidence.

Says the person who just claimed with full confidence that night is in fact day.

Would you please stop posting flamebait and flamewar comments to HN? We ban accounts that keep doing this, and you've been doing it a lot lately.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: I had to warn you about this just yesterday (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24145754). Not cool. Please fix.

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Post by sintaxi »

throwaway_pdp09 wrote: post #142
blackflame7000 wrote: post #138

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Not the way you do it.

How should I have done it?

Maybe don't use an account created less than 12 months ago to raise suspicions on another account for being created less than 12 months ago.

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Post by kipchak »

dylan604 wrote: post #124
curtis3389 wrote: post #117

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Ah, my favorite conspiracy theory. The master conspiracy theory: All totally crazy conspiracy theories are created by "them" to discredit the real conspiracies.

You can't be a fan of conspiracy theories and NOT subscribe to this one. That just wouldn't make sense.

It makes a lot of sense to me in the realm of experimental and classified aircraft. Easier to leak junk designs and call sightings UFOs than keep things secret squirrel. According to the CIA half of the UFO sightings in the 50-60s were U-2s and SR-71s.[1] There's plenty more too, like the tacit Blue, RQ-3 Darkstar, FDL-5, and GD sneaky pete that sure look like "UFOs" to the untrained eye.

[1]https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/a3995/4304207/

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Post by Balgair »

kube-system wrote: post #102
tasty_freeze wrote: post #59

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Marjorie Taylor Greene https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/511633-trump-cal... Yes, she only one the Republican primary, but it is very likely she will win the general election.

Wow, never expected a serious candidate to be posting videos that start with "have you been following 4chan?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rtYok4fdbQ

Her previous claims about 9/11 and the Pentagon are also interesting: https://www.mediamatters.org/congress/qanon-candidate-marjor...

She denounced her previous claims on Aug 13th, 2020.

154 people died in that portion of the 9/11 attacks, including many children, as can be seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIWT4f_3gDk&feature=emb_titl...

The ~4 minute video is well worth your time.

I would encourage you to ask yourself what government position/s she is qualified for, given her recent beliefs about the deaths of those people.

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Post by aleister_777 »

It's also notable though that some themes that Q covers, such as Trump being spied on, are showing progression with a significant milestone today with the guilty plea of Kevin Clinesmith.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/kevin-clinesmith-former-fbi-la...

Q first mentioned Clinesmith in August 2018.

So it raises a question of why the huge pushback and dedication of resources from the media, when, they could just be reporting on it instead of trying to discredit it. Sounds like whatever is going to happen is going to happen regardless so we'll all just wait and see.

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Post by smt88 »

aleister_777 wrote: post #12

It seems like the media is talking about this more than anyone else at this point. There have literally been over 2000 articles written to debunk this. The content has been banned from reddit, twitter and other platforms. Why is everyone so vigilant to call it "dangerous"? Why not flat earth and chem trails? Why all the attention for this one thing?

Update: Trump was directly asked if he supports QAnon conspiracies, and he refused to answer[1].

That's why it's dangerous. It has penetrated to the mainstream of the party in control of 2 out of 3 branches of US govt, as well as the entire military.

1. https://www.axios.com/trump-qanon-refuses-to-answer-question...

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