Missed the drama in here last night (sadly), which has now relocated to The Arena.
But just my two-penneth worth on the reappearance of Q, of QAnon fame.
I had the pleasure of reading a couple of books on QAnon, written by those within the community, true ‘red-pilled’ folk to use the vernacular. Think I actually posted in here about it at the time, and recall I was a bit worried about me seeing some truly convincing evidence of Q’s veracity, and being compelled to buy into the community.
Kinda goes without saying that it’s all proper horsesh!t, and even the strongest “Q proofs” are a woeful combination of vague prophecy, numerology and biblically referenced coincidence, at best.
It seems, from what I’ve read last couple of days, that the new Q posts, have been demonstrated to have been posted by Jim Watkins, or at the least, an admin for 8chan (I’m not techy enough to understand the evidence showing this, but those in the know seem to be convinced that Jim has left it indisputable that he’s the originator of the posts).
There’s seemingly now a split in the QAnon community of those who think it’s been Jim all along, and the true believers who think Jim has ‘hijacked’ the Q account for his own purposes.
To those who might think this is mainly harmless stuff, or a fringe belief, I’d argue that’s not the case. Aside from individual cases I could cite of people actually committing acts of violence after being drawn into this community, there’s a much deeper problem of the ease of radicalisation into quasi-religious conspiracy thinking that many have fallen for, and the immense damage done to families as a result of this.
QAnon style thinking is now literally embedded in the US halls of power, and this is extremely dangerous.