QAnon John's antisemitic talking points are not a bug of QAnon, they're a feature.
Let's do a little Flashback Friday.
In Sep 2018, QAnon's subreddit was shuttered. Q sent everyone to a new board on Voat.
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Voat shared some similarities with Telegram (where Q Promoters would encourage everyone to go after the Jan 2021 Twitter purge), notably that the place was riddled with Nazis.
When they showed up in Q threads, some Anons objected, and the Nazis quickly responded.
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While Voat was *explicitly* a neo-Nazi hang out spot, it's not as if the /qresearch/ boards weren't antisemitic to begin with. They always have been.
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For many months, a link to discussion of the same "Jewish Question" mentioned by the Voat Nazis was listed in the Table of Contents post on each new /qresearch/ thread.
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QAnon John isn't some sort of outlier here. Most big Q Preachers have shared the same material.
It's a feature of the movement, not a bug.
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When GhostEzra went full neo-Nazi, and the other Q promoters "called him out," please notice they don't even specify their criticism, just that GE was 'truth sprinkled with lies.'
They can't call it out because they know they've said the same things, just quieter.
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Those Nazis on Voat were ultimately correct: the Q followers who objected to the Nazi stuff were either naive or new to the movement.
The deeper you get in QAnon, the more they're told that the real problem is the Jews.
This "we only hate *fake* Jews" stuff is a midpoint.
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They've been doing this dance for years, leading true believers to the desired conclusions while maintaining a veneer of plausible deniability.
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?