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The QAnon Conspiracy Phenomenon

charliebrown said:
This thread claims that the Pentagon used Taylor Swift to rig the Super Bowel and also an agent to help get President Biden to win the presidency.

I was just pointing out the extreme power she has and all of the cities of the world who want her shows because she always enriches their finances.

Is she a government agent ?
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sounds like a load of shit to me :cool2:
 
charliebrown said:
This thread claims that the Pentagon used Taylor Swift to rig the Super Bowel and also an agent to help get President Biden to win the presidency.

I was just pointing out the extreme power she has and all of the cities of the world who want her shows because she always enriches their finances.

Is she a government agent ?
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For the New Zealand government....
 
The QAnon Prophet and the Theocratic Alabama Chief Justice.

Alabama Chief Justice Tom Parker, who wrote the concurring opinion in last week’s explosive Alabama Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos have the same rights as living children, recently appeared on a show hosted by self-anointed “prophet” and QAnon conspiracy theorist.

Parker was the featured guest on “Someone You Should Know,” hosted by Johnny Enlow, a Christian nationalist influencer and devoted supporter of former President Donald Trump. Over the course of an 11-minute interview, Parker articulated a theocratic worldview at odds with a functioning, pluralistic society.

“God created government,” he told Enlow, adding that it’s “heartbreaking” that “we have let it go into the possession of others.”
Media Matters, the liberal media watchdog group, was the first to report on Parker’s appearance on the program.

That a state’s chief Supreme Court justice would associate himself with Enlow is a cause for alarm. Enlow is a prolific conspiracy theorist, often weaving QAnon apocrypha with prophecies he claims to receive directly from God. ...

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tom-parker-alabama-ivf-embryo_n_65d7ea34e4b0cc1f2f7b3e26
 
ramonmercado said:
The QAnon Prophet and the Theocratic Alabama Chief Justice.

Alabama Chief Justice Tom Parker, who wrote the concurring opinion in last week’s explosive Alabama Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos have the same rights as living children, recently appeared on a show hosted by self-anointed “prophet” and QAnon conspiracy theorist.

Parker was the featured guest on “Someone You Should Know,” hosted by Johnny Enlow, a Christian nationalist influencer and devoted supporter of former President Donald Trump. Over the course of an 11-minute interview, Parker articulated a theocratic worldview at odds with a functioning, pluralistic society.

“God created government,” he told Enlow, adding that it’s “heartbreaking” that “we have let it go into the possession of others.”
Media Matters, the liberal media watchdog group, was the first to report on Parker’s appearance on the program.

That a state’s chief Supreme Court justice would associate himself with Enlow is a cause for alarm. Enlow is a prolific conspiracy theorist, often weaving QAnon apocrypha with prophecies he claims to receive directly from God. ...

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tom-parker-alabama-ivf-embryo_n_65d7ea34e4b0cc1f2f7b3e26
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Oh dear.
 
Having tried to locate an 'illuminati' dedicated thread and failed, I hope that this will do here.

I am trying to recall something that I saw online around 6 years ago. I have no idea if it was on here (unlikely) or a conspiracy dedicated website. It certainly wasn't a general purpose forum, nor was it Reddit. I think it came before the popularisation of Q-anon.

It was a hefty thread, possibly hundreds of pages in length, and whilst my memory will possibly distort it, the general theme involved an individual who claimed to be a life long member of the higher elite or illuminati, generously sharing his secret history with an eager, undeserving proletariat. This isn't a subject that I am overly familiar with so hope I am using the correct terminology.
It was a heck of a thread though, I couldn't look away.
This guy wrote incredibly lengthy posts describing 'their' secrets and ambitions as an exclusive global cabal....including it's history and culture. Of course, he claimed to have been born into it, and was quite obsessive about blood lines. It wasn't any sort of lizardy thing; this guy knew his world history and may very well have been quite profoundly, intellectually insane. His writing was incredibly articulate and could have been put to better use writing blockbuster conspiro-novels.

But it was fascinating stuff, regardless. He described their occult practices, symbols and rituals, as well as their (again, exclusive) 'afterlife' continuity as a higher 'race'. What was most surprising was how the community at large were utterly transfixed - he who ought to have been their sworn enemy suddenly elevated to god like status, they hung on his every word, desperately awaiting his replies. Was probably the most fun he'd ever had in his life, and god knows how he managed to summon enough energy to keep this up for as long as the thread went on.

Does anyone recall ever seeing this at all? There's so much rubbish out there on this subject that I can't imagine where it might have been. Nothing useful transpired, but it certainly straddled the Fortean for me due to it's sheer dedication and craft.
 
merricat said:
Having tried to locate an 'illuminati' dedicated thread and failed, I hope that this will do here.

I am trying to recall something that I saw online around 6 years ago. I have no idea if it was on here (unlikely) or a conspiracy dedicated website. It certainly wasn't a general purpose forum, nor was it Reddit. I think it came before the popularisation of Q-anon.

It was a hefty thread, possibly hundreds of pages in length, and whilst my memory will possibly distort it, the general theme involved an individual who claimed to be a life long member of the higher elite or illuminati, generously sharing his secret history with an eager, undeserving proletariat. This isn't a subject that I am overly familiar with so hope I am using the correct terminology.
It was a heck of a thread though, I couldn't look away.
This guy wrote incredibly lengthy posts describing 'their' secrets and ambitions as an exclusive global cabal....including it's history and culture. Of course, he claimed to have been born into it, and was quite obsessive about blood lines. It wasn't any sort of lizardy thing; this guy knew his world history and may very well have been quite profoundly, intellectually insane. His writing was incredibly articulate and could have been put to better use writing blockbuster conspiro-novels.

But it was fascinating stuff, regardless. He described their occult practices, symbols and rituals, as well as their (again, exclusive) 'afterlife' continuity as a higher 'race'. What was most surprising was how the community at large were utterly transfixed - he who ought to have been their sworn enemy suddenly elevated to god like status, they hung on his every word, desperately awaiting his replies. Was probably the most fun he'd ever had in his life, and god knows how he managed to summon enough energy to keep this up for as long as the thread went on.

Does anyone recall ever seeing this at all? There's so much rubbish out there on this subject that I can't imagine where it might have been. Nothing useful transpired, but it certainly straddled the Fortean for me due to it's sheer dedication and craft.
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If it's the same one I'm thinking of it was posted about 10 years ago, I think, on an 'anything goes' forum called God Like Productions.

I've a copy of it somewhere. I'll have a hunt for it.
 
The only conspiracy dedicated site I've heard of is Above Top Secret, so wondered if it was that.
 
It has been quite a while since I endangered any brain cells by visiting either site, but GLP is a place that makes the loons at ATS look sane. Just saying. I stay away because I don't want to gamble on any of that crap being contagious somehow. The kinds of places where you find people who believe every conspiracy theory they hear, except the ones that are likely true.
 
Austin Popper said:
It has been quite a while since I endangered any brain cells by visiting either site, but GLP is a place that makes the loons at ATS look sane. Just saying. I stay away because I don't want to gamble on any of that crap being contagious somehow. The kinds of places where you find people who believe every conspiracy theory they hear, except the ones that are likely true.
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GLP is the lowest of the low. It's the only forum I've come across where open racism is tolerated. On the rare occasion there is something of interest it soon gets taken over the brain dead mob. I've haven't looked at GLP for years until yesterday to find the posting for Merricat.
 
There's a wonderful review of the Real Raw News website. This paints a totally parallel US reality:

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/your-book-review-real-raw-news

The World According to Michael Baxter​

Some people write fanfics about Harry Potter. Some people write fanfics about Buffy the Vampire Slayer. And then, well, some people write fanfics about Donald Trump.

Spewing forth from a single WordPress site that doesn’t even display properly in mobile, Real Raw News presents itself as the lone bastion telling the real story of what is going on in America, for everyone who isn’t fooled by the fake news of all the other media outlets.

At Real Raw News, Donald Trump is still president – just a temporarily embarrassed one, who has had to abandon the public-facing side of his job in order to lure the “Deep State” out of hiding into its own annihilation.

In the world of Real Raw News, at least, it’s working. In this corner of the World Wide Web, America is going through a revolutionary purge rivaled only by the worst excesses of Joseph Stalin’s government – with the important difference that this time, the perpetrators thankfully all deserve it.
 
September 2, 2024
Editors' notes

Q&A: Author explores the toll of QAnon on families of followers​

by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard University

The 1969 moon landing? Fake. The assassination of President John F. Kennedy? Cuba really did it. Thomas Jefferson's bitterly contested election in 1800? Choreographed by hidden hands.

Political conspiracy theories have long found receptive audiences in the U.S., often on the fringes of society. Among the best-known today is QAnon, a set of fabricated claims that a group of Satan-worshiping pedophiles controls American politics and media. At its center is an anonymous oracle known as "Q."

Since 2021, QAnon belief among Americans jumped from 14% to 23%, while the percentage of skeptics declined from 40% to 29%, according to a national survey published last fall by the nonpartisan Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI).

A new book, "The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family," delves into the private lives of some believers, chronicling the painful emotional and financial toll this elaborate conspiracy has taken on ordinary people.

Author Jesselyn Cook, a tech reporter who joins Harvard this fall as a 2024–2025 Nieman Fellow, spoke to the Gazette about why so many have fallen under the spell of QAnon and why the Big Tech platforms are only partly to blame. Interview has been edited for clarity and length.

How did QAnon go mainstream and what was so compelling about it that you became interested in the human toll it took?​

October 2017 was the first post from Q on the online forum 4chan. Very few people knew it existed back then. This was around the time Pizzagate [a false conspiracy theory about a pedophile ring run by the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign from a Washington, D.C., pizzeria] was starting to blow up with the 2016 election.

The platforms that it migrated onto didn't do much. They allowed it to spread and grow. By the time Facebook and then Twitter and YouTube took action, most people already knew the name QAnon.

I had been lurking on some of these online forums for a while, watching QAnon in these dark corners of the internet, feeling like it was a little maddening to see it unfold, and no one really talking about it.

But then, in 2020, it became something we couldn't ignore anymore. I think it was a lot of things coming together all at once. COVID put a lot of people in a really vulnerable place. There were these huge information voids that QAnon influencers rushed to fill quite effectively. They tried to answer questions with a lot of misleading and weaponized false information and took advantage of people's fear. We're very aware of what it's done to our democracy and to our public health, but we don't really see what's going on behind closed doors with families.

You call QAnon not just a conspiracy theory, but 'a movement.' Why?​

You don't hear today the word QAnon as much. "Q," the figure at the center of the movement, is no longer posting, but the ideas have really been normalized and seeped into our culture.

The polling by the nonpartisan Public Religion Research Institute suggests that around one in five Americans believes that our financial, media, and government worlds are controlled by a cabal of Satan-worshiping pedophiles, which is the core of the belief system.

The reason I call it a movement more than just a theory is because every conspiracy theory out there can be stitched into QAnon. It's so much more than just this idea of "the cabal" and Donald Trump and "the storm" [a foretold conflict in which Trump defeats the cabal].

It's now antivaxx conspiracy theories; you'll see some flat Earth stuff in there; and every little idea that there's corruption going on gets woven into it. People have devoted their lives to this; they really do feel like digital soldiers in a movement. And so, to call it just a theory feels like it's really not representative of the big picture. ...

More information: Cook, J. The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family​

https://phys.org/news/2024-09-qa-author-explores-toll-qanon.html
 
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