Thread by @PokerPolitics

OK QAnon, pull up a seat. Baseball season is about to begin and we need to have a talk about your support of your team, the QAnon Digital Solder Freedom MAGA Patriots, or whatever you want to call them. For the sake of this thread we'll call them the Oakland Q's.

Now when you're on your social media platforms following your team, you got all the promoters of the team telling you that you have to watch ever game, every pitch, every out. That you gotta live and die with the Oakland Q's.

You have to comment on every post. Make up memes of support. You have to vote (Correctly) on every poll and you have to tell everyone you're sure they'll win the World Series no matter what. No negative vibes allowed!

The promoters don't care if your wife leaves you, or if your family and friends get weirded out by your support for the team. Hey they like it that way. The less things you have in your life the more you can focus on consuming their content in support of the Oakland Q's.

But the thing about Baseball/QAnon is it's a long season. The 5 game winning streak is followed by a 3 game losing skid. The standings only change a little week to week. That game you can't believe they lost on Tuesday is meaningless on by Friday.

But the promoters need you to be outraged about that game. The same way Sports Talk Radio needs to call in to demand the manager be fired, QAnon promoters need you hyped up about the audit in Arizona.

Now here is the important part. Your friends might well be casual fans of the Q's. They might ask if this new pitcher is any good or if the old vet can keep up hitting and they know you'll have the answers.

But come playoff time they'll be wearing their newly bought Q's hats. They'll be sweating out every pitch and when the Q's win it all they'll be at the parade, wearing the championship hat and T-Shirt.

You might have watched every second, but they'll still bask in the glory the same as you. You might feel somehow more validated because you 'earned it' more than they did, but in the end, everyone's at the parade and everyone's happy.

And that's just one year of supporting a sportsball team. You've given years to QAnon and you don't even have a timeline for a mythical 'playoffs' that will then conclude with a 'World Series victory'. You're living in an endless regular season with no end in sight.

The promoters promise you a payoff. They give you deadlines and then turn around and tell you the people offering you deadlines are scamming you. The endlessly ritual of telling you something will happen and then scolding you for demanding something to happen continues apace.

They tell you that you must believe, you must follow, you must commit yourself, but also that you can not hope for vindication anytime in the near future, because "We're not doing this on your timeline."

Why listen to them? Why do this to yourself? Become a casual fan. Give up on following them, give up on following this stuff on a day to day basis. Show up for the playoffs. Care when you see it's getting serious.

Might you get a bit of ridicule at the parade while you're wearing the hat and T-shirt while Hillary and Obama are being led down the street in leg irons? Sure, but who cares, everyone will be happy, you'll have all won.

Hell I'll be there wearing a hat (I'll be outing myself by wearing a Garbage T-shirt) I might have come around late but once Is see the evidence that adrenochrome is real and Hillary is a serial killer, I'll be a supporter.

Anyone who tells you that you gotta suffer before the payoff is lying. You can hop on the bandwagon anytime you want and enjoy the celebration. That's how people work. You will get no bonus points for all your 'sick decodes' in the post ⛈️🌊 world.

The only people who care about how obsessed you are, are the people who want your clicks, engagement, and money. Your likes, comments, and subscribes won't get Hillary arrested any quicker. You already know the truth, so sit back, relax, and enjoy the show from a distance.

Because Garbage got big around the same time as Marilyn Manson, Shirley had to explain her name was not a combination of Shirley Temple and Charles Manson "I'm not that creative." she said.