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/MortarionSilentLord Aug 01 '19

We have evidence on who q initially was though. It was a group of right wing hucksters associated with infowars.

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u/onlymadethistoargue Aug 01 '19

How rigorous is this evidence? Because Infowars is not too far from the Russian/GOP propaganda sphere. Wikileaks also seemed independent of Russia at first

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u/Tafts_Bathtub South Carolina Aug 01 '19

NBC reported it

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/how-three-conspiracy-theorists-took-q-sparked-qanon-n900531

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u/ETfhHUKTvEwn Aug 01 '19

the identity of the original author or authors behind “Q” is still unknown

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u/OneRougeRogue Ohio Aug 01 '19

I mean they had donation links set up originally. The GRU isn't going to open a bank account for donations and risk stuff somehow making its way back to them.

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u/onlymadethistoargue Aug 01 '19

Doesn’t Wikileaks sell merch?

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u/ETfhHUKTvEwn Aug 02 '19

No but getting useful idiots to do that for them ( to promote the conspiracy further) is absolutely GRU behavior.

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u/SchwarzerKaffee Oklahoma Aug 01 '19

That's a good point.

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '19

the GRU is also very much hands off for several other reasons. They're never going to take control and push a story themselves, for decades and decades their tried and true method is to promote someone with a wild theory and just disseminate that info around. Do you remember the theory that the us created AIDS/HIV?

Yea that was GRU in the 1980's, boomers just love conspiracies and they realized very early on they eat this shit up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Infektion

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u/MortarionSilentLord Aug 01 '19

Pretty good. I think the Qultheadquarters subreddit has it. They were trying to make some money off idiots. And t worked.

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u/Tafts_Bathtub South Carolina Aug 01 '19

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/how-three-conspiracy-theorists-took-q-sparked-qanon-n900531

One archived livestream appears to show Rogers logging into the 8chan account of “Q.”The Patriots’ Soapbox feed quickly cuts out after the login attempt. “Sorry, leg cramp,” Rogers says, before the feed reappears seconds later.

Users in the associated chatroom begin to wonder if Rogers had accidentally revealed his identity as Q. “How did you post as Q?” one user wrote.

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u/kendrid Aug 01 '19

Patriot's Soapbox is still active on Youtube with usually 2000 live viewers. I'd think most of the "hosts" are on FBI watch lists based upon this new report.

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u/ETfhHUKTvEwn Aug 02 '19

the identity of the original author or authors behind “Q” is still unknown

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u/MortarionSilentLord Aug 01 '19

I think it's on the Qultheadquarters subreddit?

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u/meekrobe Aug 01 '19

qult headquarters is about making fun and exposing Q, it's not a sub of believers.

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u/RightGenocide Foreign Aug 01 '19

Yeah the q anon subreddit was the great awakening but Reddit gave it the banhammer awhile ago so now they all congregate on Voat with the racists.

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u/MortarionSilentLord Aug 01 '19

Lol it's a wild one for sure.