I'm mentally preparing myself to do a piece about what exactly is happening in Dallas, but what you have to start with is that they believe two words, phrases or sentences with the same 'total' (A=1, B=2, etc & then all letter-values are added together) have divine significance.
At the same time BY THEIR OWN ADMISSION the rules are fast and loose. One of Neg48's admins suggests you do whatever is "fun" and makes the best "story."
This contradiction-- do whatever you want to the numbers VS the finished product is a message from God-- is dangerous.
The basic idea that God is speaking through you isn't uncommon, existing in lots of belief systems.
But when the charismatic leader and his closest disciples start showing up in the 'messages from God' made by their own followers, it creates a highly toxic cultic environment.
"As you listen more and more to Michael [Negative48] you will begin to understand and it becomes even more fun" is a sentence that should raise everyone's eyebrow.
As @PokerPolitics reminded me, the group still surrounding Michael in Dallas has started referring to itself as "the Remnant" to distinguish themselves from from the larger pool of Michael's followers, "the Called."
They continue to solicit donations to remain with him.
For those who may not understand, the current situation spilled over into the real world about three weeks ago, though obviously they've been building up to this for a while online
I'm watching the Ye/Fuentes/Jones interview now and lemmie tell ya, I hope Ben Shapiro is coming to grips with exactly what about 40% of the Republican Party secretly believes
They're nice to your face as long as you're propagandizing for them, Ben, but they'll line you up with the rest of us the second you're not useful
good fucking lord Ye is reading "jokes written by Owen Benjamin about Ben Shapiro" while Alex Jones anxiously laughs and Nick Fuentes genuinely laughs
The author went out and spoke with them face to face, and so these conspiracy theorists seem nice, and normal.
But going unexplored here is sitting down with them at their computers and seeing what these people are like online, where they gleefully talk about executions.
The article acknowledges that this is where the movement actually exists and gets all of it information, but what exactly are they learning? It's kept pretty vague.
(for instance, 'event 201' is the belief that the United Nations planned and executed the COVID 19 pandemic)
Watch the Water, a QAnon catchphrase from Feb 2018, is trending today, a week after a new "documentary" from QAnon celebrity Stew Peters started using the phrase to promote the baseless idea that COVID-19 comes from snake venom and is being spread through water treatment plants.
"Watch the Water" has been an extremely popular Q catchphrase to cite for years, because the Drop is totally context-free, meaning it could be about anything, so believers make it about anything.
Trump's complaint about having to flush the toilet 10 to 15 times?