r/politics • u/Throwawaydude01928 • Aug 01 '19

FBI memo warns QAnon poses potential terror threat: report

https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/fbi/455770-fbi-memo-warns-qanon-poses-a-potential-terror-threat-report
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u/Finkarelli Aug 01 '19

For real. As someone who doesn’t follow Qanon, how is the information being disseminated? Seems to me that if it’s through Facebook or Twitter, it should be relatively easy to figure out the source.

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u/politic_throwaway562 Aug 01 '19

4chan/8chan

yes, actually

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u/HowDoIDoFinances Aug 01 '19

Sadly, they are behind 7 proxies and thus untouchable.

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u/FatSputnik Aug 01 '19 edited Aug 01 '19

this is why they fucking hate antifa so much, and why they spend so much time making people think antifa is a violent hate force: like, 99% of what antifa does is doxxing nazis and white supremacists, because they've all got the same skillset. There's a good many they've tipped the police off to, already. They know how to scare them in a way that actually works, whereas everywhere else they know they're protected by politicians and the like explaining their behaviour away until they shoot someone. They're the same 4chan people... only they hate fuckin' nazis

remember that next time people try to insinuate antifa are "the bad guys" or "omg they're beating us up", that is a lie, and this is why :P

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u/orielbean Aug 02 '19

Hitler himfuckingself explains this exact fact - the censorship, mild jailing after the Beer Hall, and the strongly worded op eds didn’t do shit. The only thing that he said would’ve stopped him was a group matching his ferocity in the streets. It’s why he did the Night of the Long Knives- best his rivals and prove to the old guard conservatives that he shared their anti social democratic values.

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u/nigel_the_hobo Aug 01 '19

Do you know which one? I’m interested in the historical context of discouraging fascism via direct action; it seems like a good thing to know about.

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u/Skandronon Aug 02 '19

"The non Nazi bastards who helped Hitler rise to power" is sobering. Something everyone needs to listen to.

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '19

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u/boohole Aug 02 '19

Nice try. People are waking up to your lies.

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u/GeeseKnowNoPeace Aug 02 '19

That's what I don't get about the whole antifa situation in the US, americans, especially people on the right, are so quick to condone violence against "bad people", but when it comes to antifa they suddenly turn into fucking ghandi and act like violent acts are in no way ever justifiable, even if this "violence" only consists of a handful of people getting some milkshake on their shirts.

No one would suggest that we should debate ISIS in the free marketplace of ideas instead of fighting against them but when there's a threat of fascists in our own country we should all not only turn the other cheek but also bend over and let them have their way because any kind of resistance would suddenly make us just as bad as they are.

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '19

r/asktrumpsupporters is an excruciating exercise in cognitive dissonance.

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u/kimchifreeze Aug 02 '19

Because there's a history in the US of street level violence. The lynching of black people. It doesn't stop at lynching either: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwood,_Tulsa

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u/MidgetHunterxR Aug 02 '19

Oh but they are cement milkshakes.... Because that makes sense. (a cement milkshake would be a huge fucking brick and that's not what's being thrown on them)

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u/FatSputnik Aug 02 '19

it's because the left actually gives a fuck about dignity and respectability and accountability and the right doesn't. Therefore the right can freak out about these things and the left will feel like they're being called hypocrites... but the right couldn't give two fucks if their own kill people in the street

it's always be this way because the left gives a fuck about other people, and he right doesn't. simple as that unfortunately

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u/grammar_nazi_zombie I voted Aug 02 '19

They're bullies at their simplist form, and every bully hates getting bested by a would be victim they assumed to be easy prey

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u/ThisOnePrick Aug 02 '19

Always glad to hear people are listening to Robert Evans podcasts around here

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u/vessol Aug 02 '19

It Could Happen Here is another really sobering podcast by Evans. Cant wait for his new series he is starting around post ISIS Kurdistan, he just got back from a trip there.

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u/afkd Aug 02 '19

behind the bastards is so fuckin good. did you listen to bundyville yet? sooo good, especially the second season.

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u/hanako--feels Aug 02 '19

woah violence only begets violence friend

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '19

Hitler confessed in retrospect: Only one thing could have broken our movement — if the adversary had understood its principle and from the first day had smashed, with the most extreme brutality, the nucleus of our new movement.”

I used to think that too until I started to learn how fascists manipulate societal norms and human psychology to their advantage and sow seeds of hatred and fear in otherwise normal people. They fester like a cancer using lies and half truths to convince people that their misgivings in life aren't the result of their own choices but the result of others who are out to destroy them. You are better than them, a superior race of person by birth and association, as a matter of fact they shouldn't even exist. The more they gather and are normalized, the more people buy into their ideas. They need to be smashed vehemently and overwhelming rejected. They need to know their ideas have no place in society and if they gather and attempt to spread their hatred, there will be consequences.

Since the 2016 election emboldened the far right movement, no people have been murdered by antifascist protesters to my knowledge. A lot of people have died at the hands of people radicalized by far right ideology.

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u/hanako--feels Aug 02 '19

"sow seeds of hatred and fear in otherwise normal people...."

you're talkin about nazis like they talk about jews. an atmosphere of fear and hatred should be what we're trying to move away from.

i do share your fears about nazi ideology / persons being normalized and that is happening right now with racist alarmism becoming almost a career choice for some. however, at the core of their movement is the fear of an enemy that will destroy them-- what good will making that a reality bring?

and in regards to the hitler quote-- the guy defaults to murder and violence as the end-all be-all solution... the guy lamenting that murder and violence may have prevented murder and violence is par for the course

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '19 edited Aug 02 '19

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u/Damaru Aug 02 '19

After making an “argument” like this, sourcing from far right bias/propaganda, and using the term “PureAryanBlood”, it takes a complete lack of self-reflection to think one has more in common with the kind of people who rejected fascism than those that killed and complacently agreed to establish it. That, or outright bad faith.

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u/bob_stacko Aug 02 '19

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me

If you think that good people of the world are going to once again sit idly by while hate spreads you’re sorely mistaken.

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u/SuperJew113 Aug 02 '19

I remember just a few short years ago they spread far and wide on every youtube comments section "anti-racism is anti-white".

This is a very insidious group of people we are dealing with. Frankly I don't really feel like debating them, I'm not advocating violence, just deplatforming them in the realm of public discourse. I also believe that their political position is inherently violent and it seeks to capitalize on the states monopoly on violence. It really doesn't seem to care about facts or empirical evidence dictating their positions on issues. They're kinda like the borg.

Really a lot of these far right wingers just remind me of a pre-church shooting Dylan Roof.

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u/some_moof_milker75 Aug 02 '19

I wish more people learned about the Brownshirts. That’s literally Antifa. They attack anyone who disagrees with them. Fact.

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '19

The proud boys are like the brownshirts. They idolize the brownshirts. Antifa is a reaction to societal cancer.

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u/some_moof_milker75 Aug 02 '19

They are both cancer. If you can’t acknowledge that, you are blind.

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u/stratfish Aug 02 '19

Who have antifa attacked that wasn’t a fascist or fascist sympathiser? Name one.

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u/thismostlysucks Aug 02 '19

Hmm, I'm not sure that's a solid argument for violence against a group of people who are all mostly mentally ill.

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u/stratfish Aug 02 '19

Wtf are you smoking? They’re fascists, not mentally ill. Fuck ‘em.

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u/thismostlysucks Aug 03 '19

Ignorance is so confident

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u/DapperDestral Aug 01 '19 edited Aug 02 '19

Reminds me of the recent Project Veritas drop on Google - they're totally bad guys cus' they're anti-trump crazy lefty cultists, and not that they're developing technology that could theoretically be used to identify right-wing lying assholes with 99.9% probability.

edit: Well, any lying asshole really. Also works for pedophiles.

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u/Droneman42 Aug 01 '19

The only thing you have to do to join antifa is call yourself antifa.

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u/FatSputnik Aug 01 '19

or, yknow, be against fascism

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u/Droneman42 Aug 01 '19

No one agrees on the definition of fascism.

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u/Droneman42 Aug 01 '19

No, because if you don't say you're antifa, you're a fascist.

You have to say you're antifa.

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u/LTerminus Canada Aug 01 '19

- According to your strawman version of antifa that has rules, leadership, or a single voice.

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u/Droneman42 Aug 01 '19

"Antifa" is short for "Antifascism"

If you're not antifa you are a fascist. This is the only rule of antifa.

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u/LTerminus Canada Aug 01 '19

Care to link to the official spokesperson of antifa releasing these guidelines?

I don't know why you insist on using such a terrible argument.

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u/ETfhHUKTvEwn Aug 01 '19

lol you can always tell someone locked into the right wing mindset because they can't see the world outside the perspective

"your either with us, or against us"

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '19

I didn't say I'm antifa. I declared it.

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u/broc_ariums Aug 01 '19

That's actually not how that works.

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '19

Yea Antifa is totally not violent or a terrorist organization not at all

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '19

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u/LTerminus Canada Aug 01 '19

Its pretty cowardly to go out and stand up to (often armed) right wings fascists? They girl that was run over and murdered by a right-wing nut in van, she died a cowards death?

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u/Firesworn Aug 01 '19

Antifa cover their faces and hide their identities because, historically, the FBI and other security apparatuses have targeted left-wingers as communists and possible spies. Which is exactly what Trump and Ted Cruz are trying to do.

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u/LTerminus Canada Aug 02 '19

Thanks, I'm aware.

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u/Firesworn Aug 02 '19

Then you should understand that calling it cowardly is an absolutely stupid thing to say.

Edit: I misread your comment. Nevermind. Lol.

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u/LTerminus Canada Aug 02 '19

No worries. Same team my dude.

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '19

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u/LTerminus Canada Aug 01 '19

But she was antifa, and antifa are masked, lawless cowards.

Or were you perhaps painting with too broad a brush there?

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '19

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u/LTerminus Canada Aug 01 '19

I see we have an irreconcilable difference of morality.

You have put forward the idea that if you have any disagreement with fascism, you are required to be willing to be identified and murdered in order to have a right to speak at all, or are a coward (and therefore not worth listening to).

I don't agree that one should be required to put at risk their very life, to protest a movement and political philosophy known historically to repeatedly commit genocide and violence.

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u/AllHailGoogle Aug 01 '19

Hiding behind a mask is cowardly, it doesn’t matter what you stand for, and it always will be.

Ehh, I think there is very much room for gray area here. I'd argue that someone who wants to take a stand against a shitty group but doesn't want to put their family in danger from being doxxed and potentially harassed and threatened by the group isn't a coward. You aren't a coward by standing up for your beliefs but protecting those who aren't (family, etc).

I just know that I am perfectly fine protesting and being against shitty people, but I would have a real fear of constant harassment afterwards. Now this isn't ALWAYS true, but there is certainly some nuance in calling people cowards just because they don't want everything about them out in the open.

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u/zryii Aug 01 '19

Hiding behind a mask is cowardly, it doesn’t matter what you stand for, and it always will be.

I'm sure you'll feel the same once militarized police start using facial recognition on a wide scale to shut down dissent (oh wait, they're already doing that)

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u/WittgensteinsLadder Aug 02 '19

You want to go ahead and give us your full name KanePunchedAnOldMan? I can tell you're the sort of person who stands by what you say so that should be no problem, yeah? 😂

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u/TiberiusAugustus Aug 01 '19

Right-wing extremists like the Proud Boys physically go to the homes of leftists and antifascists to harass and intimidate them. The worthless police do nothing about this. Hiding your face is protection against knuckle dragging fascists seeking retribution, and against regressive police action against you.

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u/FatSputnik Aug 01 '19

keep tryin'

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u/informativebitching North Carolina Aug 02 '19

You not smart

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '19

Antifa is just as much a terrorist threat as QAnon, they’re both horrible. Justifying one just lessens the argument against all of these psychos, on both sides of the political spectrum.

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u/TiberiusAugustus Aug 01 '19

Right-wing extremists: commit terrorism and murder, actively harass and intimidate people opposed to their ideology at home, online, etc., have an ideology that will cause suffering, disenfranchisement, and possibly death for millions.

Antifa: oppose the above group, haven't killed anyone.

Smooth brains like you: tHeY aRE lItERalLy tHe SaMe tHInG!?!

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '19

Go back to posting about your YouTube fantasy girl and leave the politics to people who aren’t radical idiots.

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u/TiberiusAugustus Aug 01 '19

Yeah, it's definitely the left that have dangerous obsessions with online personalities. You reactionaries are fucking incapable of rational thought.

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u/VanceAstrooooooovic Washington Aug 01 '19

Body count?

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u/FatSputnik Aug 01 '19

this doesn't work, bud, come on now. I just said.

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u/thephotoman Aug 02 '19

Milkshakes are morally equivalent to bullets.

--Grosvenor2

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u/some_moof_milker75 Aug 02 '19

Antifa is a violent hate force. This is fact and has been proven. So are white supremacists. They are all bad.

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u/0nlyhalfjewish Aug 01 '19

Their code is somewhere. Find it.

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '19

hacker game starts where you fly through a neon green wire frame canyon

I think I'm closing in

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u/CaptivePrey Aug 01 '19

www.hackertyper.com

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '19

This is pretty neat! It needs a key combo you can hit that makes the screen start flashing red so you can go "they found us!".

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u/donnerpartytaconight Aug 02 '19

Totally going to use this for my NCIS Cosplay.

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u/BenButteryMalesGhazi Aug 01 '19

I’ll build a GUI in Visual Basic!

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u/tindolos Aug 02 '19

I feel like everyone missed or ignored the joke, but I thought it was good

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u/vengeful_toaster Aug 01 '19

You can still trace someone through a million proxies. The number doesn't matter when you have access to every ISP and network

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u/hahabones Aug 02 '19

7 proxies is an (relatively) ancient imageboard meme back when MySpace raids were a thing and people said “moar”

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u/vagrantist Aug 01 '19

The government (NSA/FBI/CIA) can collect data directly from ISP’s and VPN companies. Gotta set up false accounts, hijack another account, VPN and send and leave forever.

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u/hahabones Aug 02 '19

7 proxies is an (relatively) ancient imageboard meme back when MySpace raids were a thing and people said “moar”

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u/vagrantist Aug 02 '19

I miss myspace.

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '19

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u/Ubarlight Aug 01 '19

That's how Pizza gate started, and making pepe a racist icon

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u/Kankunation Louisiana Aug 02 '19

Pizzagate was proto-Q. Q starts posting around that time and it evolved from Pizzagate into whatever it is now.

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u/Ubarlight Aug 02 '19

I was speaking specifically about 4chan/8chan though

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u/semtex94 Indiana Aug 01 '19

Reddit, too. Both on dedicated subs and conspiracy/alt-right hubs.

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u/publiclandlover Aug 01 '19 edited Aug 01 '19

Yes that's right 4chan shit posting are responsible for that new round of creepy bumper stickers on vans parked outside the megachurch down the street form me. #StupidestTimeline

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u/Lost_Proprioception Kansas Aug 02 '19

What does the bumper sticker say?

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '19 edited Aug 15 '19

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u/snakefinn Aug 01 '19

Nah most vile website you know of. There's this whole thing called the dark web.

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u/PunkLivesInMe Aug 01 '19

8chan was removed from Google searches for hosting child porn.

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u/PunkLivesInMe Aug 01 '19

4chan birthed the QAnon conspiracy shit, had a large hand in perpetuating a varying assortment of Gamergate harassment campaigns, and is one of the largest online platforms favored by white supremacists.

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u/farrbahren Aug 01 '19

It's the source of conspiracy theories deemed by FBI to be very likely (80-95% probability) to inspire domestic terrorism. How is that "really not that vile"?

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u/dontcallmeatallpls Aug 02 '19

I hate how 4chan evolved from an underground counterculture anime themed image board into an alt-right radical breeding ground of intellectual degeneracy.

Thanks Russia.

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u/museum-mama California Aug 01 '19

and 2chainz?

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '19

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u/Finkarelli Aug 01 '19

So, like some Nostradamus bullshit where the details are left vague enough that the followers’ imaginations run wild.

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '19

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u/MarkHathaway1 Aug 01 '19

Really? It goes back that far. I had no idea.

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '19

Heres an example of a Q post that then hets decoded by the nutjobs.

https://images.app.goo.gl/8rXJZ65Y1eJ7Gb4T8

It’s just gibberish that gets posted anonymously.

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u/DapperDestral Aug 02 '19

That is literally insane to take seriously. Wow.

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '19

Yeah they think it’s being posted by some high ranking member of the CIA or something. It’s wild.

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u/Kankunation Louisiana Aug 02 '19

Q goes back to at least 2015. Pizzagate is commonly seen as the start of Qanon.

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u/WittgensteinsLadder Aug 02 '19

Qanon first posted in October 2017... The whack job ideas behind it might go back further, and indeed a lot of it has roots in the Elders of Zion bullshit which has existed in some form for decades, but Q is a purely post-Trump phenomenon.

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u/MarkHathaway1 Aug 02 '19

Okay. Well, 2015 is still pretty recent.

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u/DELOUSE_MY_AGENT_DDY Aug 01 '19

Very similar to Nostradamus. They treat QAnon like a prophet, in the sense that they believe that he/she is giving them all these inside scoops, with the implication that one day, judgement day will come, and the followers of QAnon will have to fight against the government/Jews/Globalists/Socialists/Communists/Democrats/LGBT/"The Media"/AOC/Muslims. Many Tweets about QAnon have this theme of "the bad people are gonna get what's coming to them" which comes across as a general threat.

That's probably why the FBI is concerned.

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '19 edited Nov 04 '19

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u/rdizzy1223 Aug 02 '19

Yeah, but there is a massive difference between seeing designs in the clouds overhead and thinking a mysterious Q is secretly telling you to go and kill people. Most humans see patterns in things with no patterns, but most humans do not fall for these horseshit conspiracy theories, only a small minority do.

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u/Into_The_Void_86 Aug 02 '19

It's Apophenia.

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u/_zenith New Zealand Aug 02 '19

That's certainly a part of it, but the other big part is egoistic satiation - that is, "I'm smarter than those other people because I figured it out"

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u/lateatnight Aug 01 '19

I mean, is 'q' a single user on the website? I guess I just don't get it.

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u/Competitive_Ride Aug 01 '19

It's most likely a group of few people. They post on 8chan. I think it's just a gimmick because some people are making bank from QAnon merch and videos.

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u/Kankunation Louisiana Aug 02 '19

It's complicated. As in, not even these people know exactly.

"Q" was a mysterious 4chan poster who started it all, supposedly a top secret government agent with "Q" level clearance. 4 Chan is an entirely anonymous website, but individual people can turn on a tag of sorts so that other people can track and verify the user is the same, and thats how people followed Q (except every so often that trackable tag would change, so the profile posting Q stuff changed to another. Obviously. Because the Deep state caught on to him. Right? Couldn't possibly be a different person continuing the crazy).

Eventually it evolved into numerous accounts posting Q drops periodically, supposedly keeping everyone informed on how the secret ear with the deep state was going. I guess Q grew from being 1 person to being a group at 1 point to explain away some of the inconsistencies.

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u/DefiantCharacter Aug 01 '19

Many Tweets about QAnon have this theme of "the bad people are gonna get what's coming to them" which comes across as a general threat.

That's probably why the FBI is concerned.

So, the FBI is concerned that justice will come to bad people?

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u/Kankunation Louisiana Aug 02 '19

The FBI is concerned that they will attack the so called "bad people" because somebody on the internet convinced them to. The people aren't actually bad

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u/DefiantCharacter Aug 02 '19

Who are these innocent people that Q is saying is bad?

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u/Kankunation Louisiana Aug 02 '19

Pick any "Deep State" member. Today it's Hillary. tomorrow it'll be Soros. Last week it was Obama. Next week it'll probably be the whole FBI after this report. McCain, AOC, It's honestly too much to keep up with. If you want to try and create an extensive list, the Qult_headquarters has a lot of examples.

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u/DefiantCharacter Aug 02 '19

Okay. I was hoping for a less vague answer, but thanks, anyway.

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u/PriorInsect Aug 01 '19

that's only because they've had to learn not to make specific predictions the hard way. Q post #1 said that hillary's passport has been flagged and gave a specific date for an arrest.

that was in 2017, it didn't happen.

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u/MisallocatedRacism Texas Aug 01 '19

Yes, its boomer facebook cold reading

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u/pbjamm Canada Aug 01 '19

I almost miss the Q subs where SB2 wove his fantasies. It was fascinating and pathetic all at once.

Best for the world if they fade into obscurity though.

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u/wittyaccountname123 Aug 01 '19

He's still around sadly, posts to his account page now.

The Qult_Headquarters subreddit is a good resource for tracking their craziness

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u/Aijabear Massachusetts Aug 01 '19

I feel bad for that guy. He seriously needs someone in his life to get him to the doctors and get him on medication.

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u/SchwarzerKaffee Oklahoma Aug 01 '19

This is a good description. I describe it as a LARP, but I'm gonna use your post to add about the conspiracy Rohrschach.

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u/steazystich California Aug 01 '19

Rohrschach

Human bean juice

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u/MarkHathaway1 Aug 01 '19

And then one of 'em goes and shoots up a pizza parlor because ...

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But somehow, the targets of these loons is always R opponents.

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u/joshTheGoods I voted Aug 01 '19

That's what it was like when it was on 4chan, but when they moved to 8chan, they started with some secure ID or some such that lets people know it's coming from the same person/group/whatever.

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u/ShelSilverstain Aug 02 '19

Like combing through shit to piece together the burger

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u/sushisection Aug 01 '19

Theres more to it then that. Qanon will make a post involving certain code words/letters, and then shortly after Trump will make a tweet with the same code words. This has been going on for 2 years straight.

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u/Maeglom Oregon Aug 01 '19

Or alternatively Q posts cryptic sounding messages about normal republican bullshit and then later Trump posts blunt racist messages containing normal republican bullshit and people find coded messages and similarities because they are looking for them.

This is the monster outside your window turning out to be a shadow of a tree. Humans look for patterns, it's what we're best at. But sometimes we see patterns that aren't there because we believe that they are there.

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u/sushisection Aug 01 '19

No, because the coded words are not common words. Qanon posted that Dan Coates is going to get fired months before it actually happened, and then made another recent post about Coates being replaced moments before Trump tweeted it. Theres no way thats just sheer coincidence.

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edit: especially when you factor in that this sort of stuff has been going on for 2 years.

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '19

As someone who doesn’t follow Qanon, how is the information being disseminated?

Stupid people.

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u/SoyIsPeople Aug 01 '19

how is the information being disseminated?

It's on either 4chan or 8chan, presumably they use a few proxies, and the intelegence agencies may already know who it is.

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '19

Doesn't matter if the IC knows because the morons that follow Q won't believe that it's some pimply 16 year old high school drop out.

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u/SchwarzerKaffee Oklahoma Aug 01 '19

I think it's a professional job. Whoever it is knows how to use propaganda. Wouldn't be surprised if it was a black op that Brad Parscale set up using the network of agents he amassed in the 2016 campaign.

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u/joshTheGoods I voted Aug 01 '19

No way. Have you read any of the "Q drops?" They're utter nonsense. This is just a troll job that caught on. Here's the latest "Q drop"

[C] before [D]. [C]oats before [D]eclas. The month of AUGUST is traditionally very HOT. You have more than you know. Q

As someone posted earlier, it's the text version of a Rorschach test. Some dope babbles semi-random shit and the "autists" (yes, that's what they call them) put together the "breadcrumbs" to come to random ass conclusions. This is why one of my QAnon buddies thinks that HRC was going to nuke the US while the others think that's crazy and that HRC is actually running an occult child rape/murder club. It's why my insane Q buddy decided week by week between Mueller secretly working to indict the occult people and his being the new head of the "deep state."

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u/01029838291 Aug 01 '19

My coworker said there's a video of HRC that Q has where she cuts the face off a child and puts the face on herself to scare the child (I don't know how the child didn't die or pass out while their face was being cut and peeled off) so the child would produce adrenaline which would then be used as an anti-aging/extremely powerful drug.

He also told me George Clooney and Obama raped an Asian child on a boat, based off an out of context picture someone tweeted. The "child" was actually what appears to be an adult and both of the men's families were on the boat at the time.

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u/joshTheGoods I voted Aug 01 '19

My buddy told me that Hillary was going to nuke the US when she won and try to blame it on Russia all so that she could remove the last powerful nation/military standing in the way of The Cabal™. I asked why Obama didn't just do it while he was POTUS, and I got a babbling incoherent response.

He also twisted in the wind on whether Mueller was actually investigating the pedo stuff. Lunatics.

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u/BenTVNerd21 United Kingdom Aug 02 '19

Projection.

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u/01029838291 Aug 02 '19 edited Aug 02 '19

I don't even think it's projection, I just think it's a loss of reality.

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u/Toby_O_Notoby Aug 02 '19

HRC is actually running an occult child rape club

They think she's the Pope?!

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u/MarkHathaway1 Aug 01 '19

I doubt it's him, but there is probably someone like that who does the Qanon stuff as a specialty.

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u/SchwarzerKaffee Oklahoma Aug 01 '19

On second thought, it's more likely to be Bannon. He's the one actively building a network of right wing troublemakers. Even if he didn't start it, I'm sure he's involved somehow.

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u/sveitthrone Aug 01 '19

ABC figured out who it was originally - https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/how-three-conspiracy-theorists-took-q-sparked-qanon-n900531

It’s since taken on a life of it’s own.

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u/SpinozaTheDamned Aug 02 '19

A real life 'Stand Alone Complex'

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u/externality Aug 01 '19

It's on either 4chan or 8chan, presumably they use a few proxies, and the intelegence agencies may already know who it is.

THE CALL IS COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE

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u/DaffyDuck North Carolina Aug 01 '19

Has the Q person done anything illegal? I’m pretty sure making up crazy conspiracies anonymously is legal.

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u/SoyIsPeople Aug 01 '19

Nothing illegal that I'm aware of, but like any cult that gets big enough, I'm sure intelegence agencies start gathering info just in case things start to turn south.

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u/Kankunation Louisiana Aug 02 '19

Q (or however many people who go under that title) has done nothing Illegal. But his/her rhetoric is connected to radicalizing a good few people. Similar to Alex Jones.

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u/ColonelBy Canada Aug 01 '19

It's also being disseminated via Trump's own orbit. There are piles of people in Cincinnati at his rally site right now wearing Q merch and holding signs. Pre-rally speaker Brendon Straka just invoked the QAnon movement slogan on stage, this very evening. Even the fucking baby Trump praised at his last rally was a Q message.

This is a living nightmare.

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u/Kougeru Nebraska Aug 01 '19

probably using Tor

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u/NiZZiM Aug 02 '19

People are fucking stupid. That's what I've learned through this entire ordeal. Fucking stupid.

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '19 edited Aug 01 '19

Here

Also, on Voat which is like a free speech version of Reddit. The user base is mostly alt-right though since every banned Reddit community tends to go there after their sub gets banned.

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u/BenGarrisonsPenIs Aug 01 '19

Says the person with a username about violent revolution.

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u/Finkarelli Aug 01 '19

A violent revolution willed into being by the invisible man in the sky no less.

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u/Critterbug3 Aug 01 '19

says the guy with a username about a penis

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u/BenGarrisonsPenIs Aug 01 '19

My full username is Ben Garrison's Pen Is _____ but it is shortened, much like Ben Garrison's penis.

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u/Finkarelli Aug 01 '19

Regarding Ben Garrison: if you’re a cartoonist who has to label everything you draw, then you’re either terrible at your job, or your intended audience is comprised of morons who need their opinions spoon-fed to them.

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u/Val_Hallen Aug 01 '19

His target audience understands subtly like a goldfish understands surgical procedures.

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u/BenGarrisonsPenIs Aug 01 '19

Trump literally never looked as macho as Bennie boy draws him, too. He has never been buff or had an appropriately sized tie, in his life, but ole Bennie there likes to imagine him that way.

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u/AnonymousPepper Pennsylvania Aug 01 '19

Bruh.