(I did not pick the angriest possible example of “anger” by a longshot but there are limits to what I’m willing to post even by way of illustration.)
Surprising number of sentiments along these lines, which is... almost sweet, in a deranged way.
It’s like 50/50 between the sweet version (some form of: “Maybe we were all tricked, but we found fellowship & community in the process & I don’t regret it...”) & the scary version (some form of: “The plan fell through but now WE have formed an army and must act!!1!”)
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How QWorld is coping (so you don’t have to wade into the sewer yourself): (1) Biden’s inauguration was faked, possibly with a lookalike, and all the images you’re seeing of Biden in the Oval Office are actually from a movie set. You can tell because the wallpaper changed.
(2) The United States was transformed into a private corporation in 1871 (don’t ask) but then secretly dissolved & restored to a real government by Trump, so Biden has been cleverly switcharooed and is only “President” of this now-defunct corporation.
The second hallucination, as far as I can tell, is based on an inexplicable misreading of a statute “incorporating” a government for the District of Columbia as somehow transforming the entire United States into a corporation. Yeah.
I’ll court embarrassment by making a prediction: Over the next few weeks & months, QAnon is going to shrink significantly as it becomes clear Biden’s just getting a normal term. But the core who remain via whatever story they make up will be even more dangerous & nuts.
More nuts because any moderating influence from people even tenuously connected to reality will be gone. More dangerous because “Trust the Plan” had a convenient soporific effect. Trump’s people were going to round up the evil satanist pedophile cannibal Elites, after all.
If you keep the Cabal fantasy minus the notion that the people in power have a Plan to stop them, some percentage are going to conclude THEY are the true Plan & need to “fight back” directly.
As with Powell’s “Spyder,” I wonder if this stuff gets traction in part because it’s so OBVIOUSLY absurd to anyone technical that the folks who could easily debunk it can’t imagine it’s worth the time to do so.
It’d be like writing a long essay explaining the world isn’t actually run by Lizard People. Who could fall for that in the first place? And if they did, well, they’ve probably got a screw loose and writing a rational response ain’t going to help.
Except it turns out NOT to be so obviously gibberish to the non-technical, for whom it all sort of sounds like gibberish, and the absence of a response gets interpreted as “the MSM is AFRAID to talk about the evidence."
This is apparently the “100% evidence” Mike Lindell is relying on to claim Dominion voting systems were “hacked” by foreign adversaries. It’s a screed from a crank site called The American Report, obviously written by tech illiterates, containing no actual evidence.
The article claims unsourced “raw data analytics” obtained by the crank site prove that various “IP addresses” associated with election offices were “hacked” by “IP addresses” in various foreign countries. It is word salad with gibberish croutons.
The article ends with an unsourced list of foreign IP addresses, paired with the domestic IP addresses they supposedly “hacked”. (You don’t “hack” an IP address, but whatever.) There is no reason to think this list represents… well, anything.
If his “100% evidence” turns out to be “Spyder” or one of these other infosec cosplayers, someone please call me an ambulance, because I’ll definitely rupture something laughing.
I suspect it may be, because “Spyder” (Sidney Powell’s sooper sekrit cybersecurity expert who turned out to be a military intel washout with delusions of being a hacker) specifically makes a bunch of dubious links between Dominion & other countries, particularly China.
As the developer of the software “Spyder” used explains here, “Spyder” incompetently inferred a nefarious China link from the fact that a domain Dominon owned years ago is now registered to a Chinese company. Yes, really. medium.com/@micallst/misu…
Though depending on the details, it might incur liability for defamation if the speaker knew or should have known it was a lie...
It occurs to me this presents a potentially tricky question for defamation law. A lot of these “rigged election” claims are sufficiently clearly false that it should be apparent to any reasonable person. But many people parroting the claims sincerely believe them...