Also recommended, a deep dive into QAnon from the Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/06/qanon-n...
The QAnon Conspiracy Theory: A Security Threat in the Making?
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#62All misinformation is a risk and threat. But Qanon seems minor when compared to others that are perpetuated by major news organization and undermine democracy: Russia collusion conspiracy theory, fine people on both sides hoax (the belief that the President called neo-nazis fine people). These have much more public and institutional support than QAnon.
I’m sure Trump’s love of neo-nazi imagery, slogans, ideas, policies, and people is just a coincidence, like the video he tweets of his supporters yelling ‘white power’. I’m sure it’s all a hoax, like his support of the very fine neo-nazis that killed heather heyer or the trump tower meeting with veselnitskya.
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#63It 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?
There's been a similar amount of shutdown on 5G tower conspiracies after they resulted in vandalization, arson and even a shooting. 17 towers were attacked in New Zeland alone[1] for example, and plenty elsewhere.[2] As a result 5G groups have been banned on Facebook and the like. Things like this that has real impact is for better or worse pretty quickly suppressed on most platforms. If flat earthers started setting tankers on fire or something they'd probably get the same treatment.
[1]https://www.businessinsider.com/17-cell-towers-have-been-van...
[2]https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/3/21276912/5g-conspiracy-the...
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#64The general public was subjected to years of "RussiaGate" conspiracy theory nonsense, so I don't find complaints about "QAnon" credible.
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#65Compare "The Paranoid Style in American Politics" (1964) https://harpers.org/archive/1964/11/the-paranoid-style-in-am... with examples from 1797 onward.
Interesting. From the article:
"In recent years we have seen angry minds at work mainly among [redacted], who have now demonstrated in the [redacted] movement how much political leverage can be got out of the animosities and passions of a small minority."
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's funny, I remember seeing the original thread on 4chan for QAnon, not sure if I was actually on the site or just saw a screencap. Anyways I thought it was kind of dumb and tolling, got a laugh and went on with my day. I think 2-3 days later I see QAnon being talked about on Fox News and CNN. My exact thought was "some guy in his basement must be thrilled that his shitpost on 4Chan landed on national TV". It's cra…
There are also members who believe Hillary and Biden are clones, controlled by the deep state. How????? When did we get to CLONES?
One of the effects of mass media psychosis is feeling that what you're seeing is a simulation. Biden on TV looks like Biden, but isn't actually physical Biden himself - therefore clones.
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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if 'intelligence' [sic] actors were involved in signal-boosting all sorts of wacky urban legends and conspiracy theories - so why not Pizza gate and Q as well?
Kind of like how intelligence actors fabricated Russiagate from whole cloth?
No that was a lot more than just signal boosting.
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#68It 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?
Because Twitter still hasn't and there are hundreds of thousands of Americans who follow the accounts that propagate this.
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#70It 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?
There's been a similar amount of shutdown on 5G tower conspiracies after they resulted in vandalization, arson and even a shooting. 17 towers were attacked in New Zeland alone[1] for example, and plenty elsewhere.[2] As a result 5G groups have been banned on Facebook and the like. Things like this that has real impact is for better or worse pretty quickly suppressed on most platforms. If flat earthers started setting…
Does anyone know which vendors' equipment was on the attacked towers?