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22 Feb, 12 tweets, 5 min read
Browsing through Calm Before the Storm thread #3, and there's a LOT of discussion of Q's North Korea storyline.

There's been a bit of pushback, but most folks are just... well, look at this (split the post into 2 screenshots to make it mobile-friendly):

archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/147… ImageImage
A couple posts downthread someone asks, apparently with 100% sincerity, "Have you ever thought NK might be a test run for NWO?" (i.e. the "New World Order" of vintage 1990s conspiracy theories.)

archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/147…
This anon is SO inspired by Q that they wrote a 371-word effortpost about it.

archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/147…
But really, this is the first time I've encountered any significant pushback on Q's North Korea storyline.

"You'd have to be next-level stupid to believe this," says one anon.

"You would believe anything," says another.

archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/147…

archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/147…
But I shouldn't exaggerate the level of resistance to Q's ideas. /pol/ is a VERY conspiracy-friendly space; the average anon is closer to this post than to the skeptics' takes:

"Can I have a quick rundown please ? What'll happens ? NESARA ? The Swamp ?"

archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/147…
Q is about to make an appearance in this thread, which will be my signal to stop summarizing it. So I'll leave you with this round-up written by an anon. It is, once again, very interesting -- it puts Q on even footing with another LARPer...

archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/147…
and the post may also have Q confused with White House Insider (yet another LARPer -- WHI was a fairly prominent & successful one, though, easily in the top tier of /pol/ LARPs).

We tend to think of Q as this sort of... inevitable force of nature, but of course that's not right.
In fact, Q was part of an ENORMOUS ecosystem of LARPers, all vying for attention and pressing a bunch of conflicting storylines.

The post below is very valuable, not so much because you should understand the people and events it's talking about --fuck THAT, you don't need to--
as because it illustrates *how many LARPs there were, and how they were fighting for attention at all times.*

This post mentions, by my count, 11 different LARPers -- and it doesn't even mention Q *or* "OPAnon" from earlier CBTS threads.

archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/147…
And that's just part 1. Part 2 of that post adds three more LARPers, including our old friend Highway Patrolman, and identifies a "MilInt Anon (breadcrumbs)" in a spinoff from HWP's thread -- this is a reference to the lost drops I found from 10/30/17.

archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/147…
So in ADDITION to my earlier statements re: LARPers being locked in an endless battle for attention -- which are true & I stand by 'em -- I should add:

Some anons paid VERY close attention to ongoing LARPs; for them, it was almost a spectator sport. I wonder if Q was one of 'em.
P.S. I am VERY dissatisfied with this thread -- it's sorta... quick, disorganized thoughts that occurred to me during a first read-through. If you read it and were like "Wait, I don't understand X," just drop your questions here. :)

I'll answer ASAP.

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