Is QAnon the new pizza gate?

[Irving]

If you've never heard about QAnon neither have I until I came across this article. This is the only source I've seen so I can't get a good read on how much interpretation or exaggeration there is going on here. I'm kind of wary of this particular publication though. The article talks about QAnon, but it is really a piece about how buying into the conspiracy is affecting people's personal and social lives, so the tone is a bit strange. Anyway, peppered through out this long article is enough auxillary info to put together a picture of what is going on, I think.

From the article.

The QAnon theory falsely claims that President Donald Trump?s prominent opponents are part of an international criminal ring involved in the trafficking, abuse, and sometimes eating, of children. Believers think this because ?Q,? an anonymous message board user who claims to be a high-level military insider, has been telling them so since October 2017. Over its year-plus lifespan, the theory has attracted untold legions of fans. It has also attracted comparisons to cults for behavior by adherents, some of whom claim to have become estranged from families and friends over their Q belief.

Anyone else heard of this?

https://www.thedailybeast.com/christ...for-qanon-fans

[def90]

There is a long Q thread over at the akfiles, those guys that follow that shit are idiots.

[henpecked]

Qanon.pub
Last April they said the Vatican would be having a bad month. May rolls around big article about the Vatican covering for all the pedo priests. About the only thing that they fore told.

[Irving]

I've been more recently interested in the concept (that I made up) that trolling and other social manipulation is just a social Rube Goldberg machine where everyone is surprised at where it ends up.

[MattR]

It's really amazing that people believe this nonsense in Qanon, I have a friend who believes 100% that anything in there is true. He says Q doesn't say anything, Q gives you an idea to research and find out the truth for yourself. They think some pretty rediculous stuff is true, mainly that some of the government is involved in human trafficking and satanic rituals that involve eating remains of sacrificed babies. It rediculous, they think Trump has a secret code telling everybody the "Truth". It's an online cult in my opinion, they are preparing for a new American Revolution. I don't talk to my friend much anymore because it's all he wants to talk about, and I want no part of it. I've told him it's probably some hacker kid living in his mom's basement, stoned and bored, lol.

[Great-Kazoo]

So it's a flat earth society for conspiracy theorist .




Speaking of conspiracy theorist, may get to meet a flat earth true believer tomorrow.

[MrPrena]

Using emoticon.

[WETWRKS]

So it's a flat earth society for conspiracy theorist .




Speaking of conspiracy theorist, may get to meet a flat earth true believer tomorrow.

But is he a member of the flat Mars society?

[Zundfolge]

I think the appeal of Q is that its wishful thinking ... people want to believe that Trump is secretly running this hidden cabal to take down the corruption in DC from the inside and there's this cool insider leaking stories about it. I can understand why people want to believe such a thing (hell, I want to believe too ... I just don't).

That said, someday I think we'll look back on Pizza-gate and discover that it was ~90% correct ... I guarantee you wherever you have collections of wealthy powerful men you will find networks of people providing them with child sex slaves and other things to feed their "particular tastes" for the right price. We know that Jeffrey Epstine has an island where rich and powerful men go to have legally and morally questionable "private entertainment", so I have no doubt that there are networks of child sex traffickers providing sex slaves for prominent, wealthy politicians on US soil (and in DC in particular) as well. It may just be that the particular pizza place (and maybe even the pizza related code) is the only part of the story that's incorrect.

[Irving]

Whoops, misread your post.