Post March 4th, there will be another date QAnon believers think Trump will return to office. And another after that. Q is a prophetic movement based on a great change event, and we're going to have to learn how to not panic every time some Q guru "divines" the next date.
We're all on edge after 1/6, but great dates that come with hype and leave in silence are the currency of both affinity frauds (which Q is based on) and prophetic movements (which Q is). These people will wait as long as they have to for the prophecy to be realized.
QAnon and its mythology of a stolen election protecting a pedophilic deep state from mass destruction is now as much a part of GOP orthodoxy as "Hillary lied, 4 men died." We've got to find a way to push back against it without running in circles every time a date appears.
1/6 was the final act in a year of conspiracy theories pounding that Trump couldn't lose if the election was free and fair. And it was plotted in the open, for all to see. 3/4 is some sovereign citizen not understanding the difference between "corporation" and "incorporation."
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Some other infestations of Nazi horror designed by those fascists at Design Foundry: the Mandela 100 Years Gala and the Biden Cancer Summit.
Nobody's going to admit they were wrong because, hey, it's Twitter. But it's clear that Design Foundry designed the stage, the ACU approved it, and it wasn't meant to look like a Nazi rune. Now can we please go back to hating CPAC for its ideas, not its stage design?
It's more complicated than this. I don't have compassion or pity for the Capitol attackers. They chose insurrection over democracy. But many QAnon believers are trapped in their own fear of a cold and changing world that offers no easy answers, only an endless stream of enemies.
QAnon offers these people answers to their questions, a community of those who think the same things they do, and a way to strike back at those seen as keeping them down. Yes, it's a racist and anti-Semitic mythology. But they genuinely don't see it.
I would never tell anyone their anger toward coercive movements like Q is misplaced. But not all Q believers are the same. Some are violent and authoritarian, others are just looking for someone to tell them everything is going to be okay.
A young Kelly Loeffler staffer named Harrison Deal was killed in a car crash today. And because Q believers are grief-addicted ghouls, they're already creating a conspiracy theory that he was murdered by Brian Kemp or Barack Obama or someone. Deal was 20.
A 20-year-old person dying in a car crash is not "comms" or a "deep state message." It's a tragedy. Only someone absolutely numb to all human feeling would think otherwise.
They're already comparing Deal to Seth Rich and Michael Hastings. I'm not screen capping it because it's disgusting. These people need a hug and to spend a week without technology.
I hate to say it, but conspiracy movements like QAnon rarely "end." Some of the precursor scams and tropes that fed into Q have been going for decades. People will drift away, but the core values of Q - distrust of authority and need for enemies to be punished - are eternal.
That's not to say that we shouldn't be pushing back against it, exposing its falsehoods, and trying to help people get out of it. We should be. But expecting that work to lead to Q "ending" will only lead to disappointment.
Expecting Q to "end" implies that people will suddenly stop thinking they have powerful enemies, and will stop looking for order in chaos. That's never going to end. It might just go by a different name.
"The kraken" appears to be a 100 page long request that Governor Kemp declare Trump won Georgia, because of Hugo Chavez's voting machines. I'm merely an unfrozen caveman lawyer, but I don't see this plane flying.