Qanon is real, but by that I mean it's a psy-op designed to stop Americans from legitimately freaking out over the Podesta emails and US election fuckery.
It worked too.
Those emails were legitimate and they confirmed that the Democrats rigged their convention, the debates, murdered a whistleblower, and were conspiring to cheat the the polls as well.
Thanks to the magic of Qanon though, we've had 4 years of people thinking that there's a massive pedo ring but that now the good guys are in charge and they're cleaning it up.
Meanwhile, in those past 4 years the Democrats have rigged their convention again, rigged the Presidential debates even further and they've rigged the US elections twice.
All while people were focused on Qanon rather than demanding change, accountability and charges. After all, the good guys are in charge now, you don't need to do anything, just sit back and wait for the next cryptic information drop then spend a bunch of time figuring out what your secret saviour meant.
It's pretty fucking insidious but it's real.
It's not real, it's just some kid(s) larping on 4chan. And yes, the whole Qanon thing discredited the effort to bring public scrutiny to the Podesta email, but that was the fault of dumbass conspiracy theorists on 4chan and the MSM who made the story about them instead of what they were scrutinizing, not some elaborate, convoluted PR scheme by the "deep state".
Occam's razor. The fact that even this board is full of dummies who buy into insane conspiracy nonsense hook, line and sinker is poof enough that you don't need some deep state plot to float a conspiracy narrative.
It spread through 8chan, twitter and facebook for the most part.
Occam's razor for me is "the US government and all kinds of federal agencies constantly try their best to control any dissident group, so anything like Qanon is most likely the US government trying to get ahead of anything it sees as having the potential to threaten them."
Especially when the integrity of their elections is a concern, that's when reigning in the crazies becomes a real concern.
Let me put it this way, in 1964 the Spanish Flu returned and shortly afterwards there was a recession that made it hard for the youths to get jobs.
We know that the CIA was associated with the promotion of LSD, we know the CIA was associated with the hippy movement, and when the hippy movement became a problem we know that the CIA was associated with a bunch of new-age cults including the Manson family.
If they were willing to do that then, why wouldn't you think that they wouldn't spread Qanon conspiracy theories at a time when the DNC's significant amounts of dirty laundry was being aired?
Furthermore, when it comes to the "deep state" 4 years ago the deep state meant the career politicians and bureaucrats who wield an undemocratic amount of influence, and do it poorly. The people in safe ridings, the ones who were chosen by party elites, the ones whose careers are owed more to their outstanding skills at sychophantry than their personal integrity and accountability to their voters.
Within 4 years they've made it so that "deep state" means "satanic child-molesting cultist" in the eyes of many people.
That just screams "psy-op." By changing the meaning of the term they've managed to restore faith in the system and to make anyone who even mentions the deep state sound like a total lunatic.
That isn't something that's organic. That isn't a 4chan larp. That's a full-on government operation.
Qanon isn't real.
Qanon is real, but by that I mean it's a psy-op designed to stop Americans from legitimately freaking out over the Podesta emails and US election fuckery.
It worked too.
Those emails were legitimate and they confirmed that the Democrats rigged their convention, the debates, murdered a whistleblower, and were conspiring to cheat the the polls as well.
Thanks to the magic of Qanon though, we've had 4 years of people thinking that there's a massive pedo ring but that now the good guys are in charge and they're cleaning it up.
Meanwhile, in those past 4 years the Democrats have rigged their convention again, rigged the Presidential debates even further and they've rigged the US elections twice.
All while people were focused on Qanon rather than demanding change, accountability and charges. After all, the good guys are in charge now, you don't need to do anything, just sit back and wait for the next cryptic information drop then spend a bunch of time figuring out what your secret saviour meant.
It's pretty fucking insidious but it's real.
It's not real, it's just some kid(s) larping on 4chan. And yes, the whole Qanon thing discredited the effort to bring public scrutiny to the Podesta email, but that was the fault of dumbass conspiracy theorists on 4chan and the MSM who made the story about them instead of what they were scrutinizing, not some elaborate, convoluted PR scheme by the "deep state".
Occam's razor. The fact that even this board is full of dummies who buy into insane conspiracy nonsense hook, line and sinker is poof enough that you don't need some deep state plot to float a conspiracy narrative.
It spread through 8chan, twitter and facebook for the most part.
Occam's razor for me is "the US government and all kinds of federal agencies constantly try their best to control any dissident group, so anything like Qanon is most likely the US government trying to get ahead of anything it sees as having the potential to threaten them."
Especially when the integrity of their elections is a concern, that's when reigning in the crazies becomes a real concern.
Let me put it this way, in 1964 the Spanish Flu returned and shortly afterwards there was a recession that made it hard for the youths to get jobs.
We know that the CIA was associated with the promotion of LSD, we know the CIA was associated with the hippy movement, and when the hippy movement became a problem we know that the CIA was associated with a bunch of new-age cults including the Manson family.
If they were willing to do that then, why wouldn't you think that they wouldn't spread Qanon conspiracy theories at a time when the DNC's significant amounts of dirty laundry was being aired?
Furthermore, when it comes to the "deep state" 4 years ago the deep state meant the career politicians and bureaucrats who wield an undemocratic amount of influence, and do it poorly. The people in safe ridings, the ones who were chosen by party elites, the ones whose careers are owed more to their outstanding skills at sychophantry than their personal integrity and accountability to their voters.
Within 4 years they've made it so that "deep state" means "satanic child-molesting cultist" in the eyes of many people.
That just screams "psy-op." By changing the meaning of the term they've managed to restore faith in the system and to make anyone who even mentions the deep state sound like a total lunatic.
That isn't something that's organic. That isn't a 4chan larp. That's a full-on government operation.
No, the fact the none of it comes true and it's all worded like a child wrote it points to it being some kid posting nonsense on the internet.