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A close look at the earliest days of QAnon, showing Q's origins in, and relationship to, broader 4chan culture. WARNING: primary sources may be vile.

Sep 24, 2020, 10 tweets

MINITHREAD: "TRIBUNAL" FANTASIES ON /POL/ BEFORE Q

Earlier, we noted that -- on just Q's second day of posting -- anons had already sussed out Q's metaplot. It was especially striking that one predicted the "military tribunals" that are central to the Q mythos.

How? Well...

As it turns out (surprise!), 4chan users often fantasized about their perceived enemies -- frequently Jews -- being hauled before a military tribunal and executed.

How often is "often?"

From 1/1/17 to 10/28/17, "tribunal" was used at least 1,208 times on /pol/.

Not all of these refer to military tribunals, but many do.

In fact, one of the screenshots above is from a thread posted on 10/26/10 -- two days before Q's first drop.

Let's take a look at some responses -- first, a few that mesh with Q's main themes...

And second, a few that show *just how* firmly the whole "tribunal" theme was mixed in with antisemitism in the minds of these 4chan anons:

Mix these together, and presto -- THAT'S how you get the anon immediately deciding that Q's vague hints about "Supreme Court decisions" referred to a military tribunal that would "hang all the k*kes."

We really cannot stress enough, by the way, how often 4chan users linked military tribunals to violent retribution against Jews for imaginary "crimes."

One post referred to a tribunal "delivering judgment for entertainment before sending them to the oven."

4chan is a sewer.

On a less genocidal (but still murderous) note, one anon said of Hillary Clinton:

"Until she's brought before the tribunal and executed, there's no win."

The date on that post was 10/27/17 -- one day before Q's first drop.

archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/146…

The point of all this is twofold: 1) it hammers home yet again that Q's entire metaplot was a mashup of what many 4chan anons already believed; and 2) it helps explain why so many anons -- in the first Q-focused discussion on 4ch -- linked tribunals to genocide against the Jews.

But that's a topic for our next thread, so... we'll see you then!

P.S. Update: I forgot to include the search results that *show* how often "tribunal" was used.

Link follows; as always, 4chan is an absolute cesspit, so explore at your own risk. But I always want to make it possible to check my work.

tinyurl.com/poltri

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