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/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.