I'm working on a revision and expansion of my adrenochrome thread, and can I just say it's amazing how many studies were conducted in the 1950s linking mescaline and adrenochrome based on molecular similarities? No wonder it entered pop culture.
Most of these studies came up with "well, it doesn't do much" as their result and yet the studies continued
Changes to brain activity on mescaline are profound and accompanied by patients reporting euphoria and hallucinations
On adrenochrome, patients felt a little drowsy and the changes to brainwave activity are... well, let's just call them "unimpressive"
And again, most of these studies were the result of someone saying "hey those molecules kinda look alike"
between 1954 and 1957, there were 22 studies on adrenochrome
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Right now, QAnon is on a similar trajectory as Pizzagate was after Edgar Welch shot up Comet. After the widely publicized violence it became unfashionable to be a "Pizzagate believer" but they didn't go away by any means, they just found a more private corner of the internet.
For the first time EVER, I'm going to say this: Q actually saw this one coming.
There's a reason Q instructed their followers to stop saying "QAnon" and stop talking about "Q" and start using more and more coded language as the election approached.
It's also why none of the big-name Q promoters did their typical ban evasion tricks after the great purge of January 8th, but instead retreated to Telegram taking as many of their followers with them as possible.
The evolution of this single book really says a lot about QAnon
As suspected, all references to Q have been removed from the latest edition
"Thank you to the entire Q Army... thank you the 8-chan Anons who do battle" has been replaced by "Thank you to all the patriots everywhere... thank you to those who do battle"
This is like reading a Creationist textbook edited into an Intelligent Design textbook.
There's been a little bit of chatter about how burnt-out people who watch, cover & report on conspiracy and extremist groups have gotten recently.
I feel it myself.
And the worst part is that (for me at least) it comes from a place of deep disappointment.
For me, and for some others, it was impossible not to have a spark of hope that this would actually *end* at some point.
Surely, I thought in 2018, someone with the ability to act will start taking this seriously.
Surely, I thought in 2019, now that people are committing crimes in the name of Q, we're going to see a real shift in the halls of power because someone will realize how dangerous it is.
I never expected Trump to come out against it, but I dunno-- I kinda expected *something*.
Lots of hay has been made of QAnon’s affection for Russia and Vladimir Putin. One seemingly obvious conclusion is that QAnon is secretly funded by Russians, who use the movement to push their geopolitical agenda and harm other nations they don’t like.
An examination of the global QAnon movement would even appear to support this conclusion, showing QAnon spreading fast in many countries traditionally opposed to Russian interests, and by contrast, the native Russian QAnon movement is still small.
But whether Russia pumps money into Q or not has actually very little to do with answering the question of why QAnon seems to like Russia so much. Could it be that Q is a Russian Intelligence Operation? Sure, maybe—but it doesn’t matter here.