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16 Nov, 5 tweets, 2 min read
How QAnon works -- a tale in 3 posts:

User A: "WHAT WAS THAT THAT JUST HAPPENED ON FOX?!?!... QANON CONFIRMED"

User B: It's probably this segment about Congress misbehaving: "Hill of Harassment?"

User A: "I was fucking LARPing, like everyone else in this thread. Go to bed." ImageImageImage
Direct links to posts:

archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/147…

archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/147…

archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/147…
I should add that if you're new here, what you're seein' is:

1) anonymous imageboard poster Just Says Some Shit™

2) another anonymous user takes it seriously and starts gathering information about it

3) ta-da! QAnon in a nutshell.

Neither user was Q, BTW. As far as we know.
Also worth noting that the anon in item #2 *got it wrong* -- look at the timestamps. He should've been looking at a segment from 7-ish minutes before his post, not 17ish.
But presumably whatever was airing 7 minutes ago wasn't very interesting to a 4chan-dwelling CHUD, and was therefore discarded in favor of something involving Congress + sexual harassment

Anyway, this is how the World's Greatest Researchers roll, so... good work all around. 🤷‍♂️

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16 Nov
Just came across a 4chan user whose Grand Theory was:

"Jews did Uranium 1 bc they were planning to nuke DC but only had American-supplied nuclear weapons, & they wanted to frame North Korea (plus Hillary and Obama), so they needed it to make sense that NK had American nukes." Image
The claim re. Uranium 1 here is building on Q's story: that U1 was a way for Hillary and Obama to funnel nuclear material to Iran and the CIA/Deep State-led bastion of North Kora, which was going to use nukes to blackmail any Patriot™ who somehow became President.
Needless to say, this is 100% disconnected from reality. I'm pretty sure it's even 100% disconnected from *how the right-wing media presented* Uranium 1; it's so... it's so...

I feel like a dog staring into a kaleidoscope. What even is happening???
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15 Nov
Here's a conversation from Q's very first failed apocalypse (November 3, 2017):

"Anyone else nervous AF right now?"

"I work a 12 hour shift today, but I'm bringing my gun just in case."

To some extent this is just how /pol/ *is*...

archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/147…
and the community was also on edge because almost everyone on /pol/ expected the Antifa Apocalypse™ to break out on November 4th.
But it's still striking to see Q inspiring -- allegedly -- someone to *take a gun to work* because they were worried about "getting murdered."

I think it was pretty canny of Q to start posting in the run-up to the Antifa Apocalypse™, tbh. I think that anxiety helped Q catch on.
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11 Nov
MORMON HISTORY MOMENT (because it’s my account and you can’t stop me):

After Joseph Smith died, Brigham Young *did* claim control of the main body of the church & eventually moved it west.

But there were other claimants, including Smith’s first wife, Emma. Let’s talk about her!
Emma Smith started a Mormon offshoot church (which still exists to this day!) based, essentially, on her profound, BURNING need *not to admit* — not to the public, not to her son, and maybe not even to herself — that her late husband had had dozens of wives.
This is what I meant in the OP (or the thing I quoted in the OP) when I said the claim you make when starting a new religion, or a new conspiracy theory, or a new political movement, doesn’t have to be true.

It only has to meet your emotional needs, & maybe feel truthy as well.
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10 Nov
This is why it's futile for Democrats to retreat from the issue of race. They HAVE to fight for a multiracial democracy and call the opposition what it is.
In this respect, the Democrats could stand to take a leaf from Abe Lincoln's book -- or from his campaign song, "Lincoln and Liberty."

"We'll finish the temple of freedom
And make it capacious within
That all who seek shelter may find it
Whatever the hue of their skin."
I like the next verse too:

"Success to the old-fashioned doctrine
That men are created all free
And down with the power of the despot
Wherever his stronghold may be."

Those two verses are the *exact opposite* of what the Republican Party stands for in 2021. And we know it.
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9 Nov
This is 100% the deal with the “decertify” crowd.

They don’t care that there’s no such thing as “decertifying” an election. They don’t care that Biden won in a free and fair election.

Their emotional identity is so bound up in Trumpism they can’t tolerate his being out of power
Doesn’t matter that installing Trump as an unelected dictator — which is hat they’re really talking about, what they’re really advocating for — is *profoundly* un-American, finding no precedent in our national history or American values.

Hell, they can’t acknowledge THAT either!
Because their identity is ALSO bound up in the idea that they “love the constitution.”

When their actions —such as, again, advocating for an unelected dictator to be installed over the United St in defiance of the constitutional procedures for *how we elect presidents*— ahem.
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9 Nov
“Khazarian” is, for reasons too stupid to burden you with, a code for “Jews.”

But *otherwise* this is dead on target w/how QAnon people talk about Australia: they’ve constructed a fantasy alternate reality in which a foreign land labors beneath the yoke of a COVID dictatorship.
It will be REALLY interesting to see if a Scandinavian version of this catches on.
It’s also worth noting that, in the conservative imagination, both Australia and Scandinavia are *white*, which might make them especially attractive locations for imaginary COVID dictatorships—the imaginary *resisters*, like the Q people, will be overwhelmingly white.
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