I wonder if the perpetual prediction/disappointment /new prediction cycle is part of the appeal to the Qanon followers. Sort of an externally imposed bipolar disorder?
At this point all I can do is point you at the articles I’ve read that talk about how the development of QAnon addiction works. I found these illuminating:
It will be the day of the Q d’état.
Even if, as some suggest upthread, QAnon is indelibly Trump-centric and therefore falls by the wayside as El Trumpo finishes imploding, the botnet still exists waiting for a new thought leader and leading website to feed it new crap.
As has been discussed in umpteen threads over the years and umpteen learned psychological articles, CT-susceptibility is itself a state of mind. Once in that state of mind someone is easy prey for any and every new CT to come along. The QAnon replacement may have nothing Trumply, no pedphiles, and still be massively attractive to the QAnon followers of 1/5/2021.
If only they could get addicted to some relatively harmless CT like Flat Earth or even stupider, the Time Cube.
They need something better to have as a bee in their botnet.
Covfefe!
March 4!
Covfefe!
(If you don’t understand it, that just illustrates that you’re not in the know. )
Covfefe!
I would note that Qanon is, itself, just the latest mutation of some fundamental conspiracy-related commonalities going back centuries. Powerful malicious people with evil motives that are unspoken and unknown to the general public (but obvious if you know how/where to look), underdog forces trying to expose them, and Jews in the mix, always Jews.
This conspiracy cult ebbs and flows, wearing different faces and going by different names, but it’s been around forever.
Qanon may not be called Qanon in thirty years, but its successor will operate according to the same basic structural ideas.
I do like a good pun, so I want to thank you guys for Q-operating in this thread.
Interesting NBC article on what’s next for Q folks:
By the way: what does “WWGIWGA” stand for in Q-speak? Anyone know?
I see it from time to time in news photos of Q-folk.
Where we go one, we go all. WWG1WGA.
It’s a quote from the movie White Squall, of all fuckin things.
Also, he didn’t pardon a single one of them but he DID pardon Steve Bannon, the guy who set up a fake charity and pocketed all the money he conned them into donating. I’m thinking those two things, specifically the former, might have been the tipping point for a lot of people to jump off the trump train. Finally realizing what others have been saying for 4+ years. Regardless of anything he says or does, he’s not on your side, he’s playing for a team of 1 and he’ll leave you behind the very second he doesn’t need you anymore.
It always struck me as a very grammatically awkward saying.
It seems like a stupid mangling of “all for one and one for all.” Or maybe there’s some other similar saying that I’m not thinking of? How do “we go one” exactly?
As noted, it’s a quote from a movie. And the movie shows the quote as being engraved on a ship’s bell, as I recall. Maybe it’s traditional or something. But that’s where it comes from.
I just wanted to bump this link and add another and encourage everyone that’s interested in this subject to read them both, and follow some of the embedded links inside the stories. It’s fascinating. While QANON draws largely from the classical conspiracy theories of shadowy cabals and global domination, these pieces tell the story of how it was weaponized by Russian disinformation sources, and it outlines the involvement of characters like Mike Flynn and OANN’s Chanel Rion.
Here’s the companion piece. It is also linked to in the article @begbert2 posted, but it’s worth a link of its own.
Well, either the movie people or somebody else had to come up with the mangled phrase at some point. Mangled it is, and it figures that Q people would glom onto it and attach significance to it.
Didn’t half the crew die in that film due to the captain’s incompetence? Sounds a little too on point.
I think you may have been the one who turned me on to these articles, back in another thread. (Credit where credit’s due.) Fascinating stuff, and it helps explain just where the hell all these people suddenly came from. I mean, yes, there have always been stupid people. But trumpism isn’t founded on stupidity, it’s founded on insanity - the literal rejection of reality and rational thought. And while 50% of people are of below-average intelligence, that shouldn’t mean that 50% of people are bugfucking lunatics.
The fact that there’s an actual, reasonable explanation for how people got turned into Qnatics is actually reassuring, in a sort of conspiracy-theoristish way - it’s scary when crazy horrible things happen randomly, and in this case there was a deliberate conspiracy to manufacture all these crazy people that are wrecking things.
Unfortunately, like I said, that also means that there are people who have put a significant amount of time, money, and effort into making QAnon and its mob of crazies into a useful tool for their use. They’ll do whatever it takes to keep that tool in play.