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.
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.
There’s a story on NBC News you should ABSOLUTELY read if you have 5 minutes.
I’ll link it at the end.
A Texas cop who’s part of the far right (tried to start his own Oathkeepers chapter, even!) spent 2 years trying to land felony pornography charges on school librarians. 🧵
What he told people in /public/ — including his bosses, it seems — was: gosh, I’m just a devoted civil servant. If community members make a complaint, it’s my DUTY to investigate.
But actually he went to meetings held by anti-“porn” crusaders and told *them* to make a complaint.
One of those women, by the way, is now on the school board.
What did he object to? Basically, a bunch of YA books — books for teenagers that dared to have sex in them! Teens famously never think about sex! — and *a book by Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison.*
TIL the guy who coined the phrase “go woke, go broke” wrote a whole entire book with the premise:
wouldn’t it be cool if Waffen-SS veterans were rejuvenated and placed in charge of the effort to stop soft, effete modern-day Germany from being overrun by aliens???
1/8
“Origins,” you say, “perhaps that is a grossly unfair summary.”
OK, well, I fucking read that shit when it came out. I was a nerdy young conservative in 2005 and had *absolutely* been reading the entire series to that point.
It’s a 100% fair summary.
“Origins,” you say, “how do we know you really read— wait why are you drawing in a really deep breath?”
THE ALIENS ARE CALLED THE POSLEEN AND THEY EAT OTHER SENTIENT BEINGS, WHICH THEY CALL “THRESH” WHICH IS A PRETTY GREAT WORD IN THAT CONTEXT TBH, REALLY ROLLS OFF THE TONGUE
READ THIS BECAUSE: I *guarantee* you’re going to find at LEAST one thing that sticks in your mind for life. There are hardly any other books I’d say that of.
SUBJECT: the last months of the Third Reich.
FAIR WARNING: this book features a *lot* of people trapped in awful situations waiting for terrible fates to befall them. Also, the stuff that will stick with you isn’t necessarily fun or uplifting.
For instance, there’s a passage about how civilians perceived concentration camp inmates when they saw the death marches.
One of them writes in her journal something to the effect of: what terrible crimes they must have committed, to be treated like this.
“Think mirror” is a QAnon slogan often used in baking — that is, the search for hidden meaning in an image or text.
Ariel didn’t use the slogan in this post, but here he makes a direct & simple use of the *core concept* to suggest that the X app is somehow linked to Freemasonry:
There /are/ less direct, less simple uses of “think mirror” — lots of them.
It’s a key part of how the “Q Clock” works, for instance (image credit: Travis View, AFAIK).
It can also be used to explain away problems that arise when one of the movement’s heroes says or does something that /completely contradicts/ core QAnon beliefs.
No problem! That was a performance for the normies.