Ooooooh this is gonna be a lot so buckle up, but the short answer is: far right death cult that’s gaining a deeply, deeply concerning amount of traction right now.
TW for absolutely fucking everything.
Long answer is Qanon is a far right death cult that started on 4chan in 2016. It started with one jackass anon who called himself Q and made (completely false) predictions, claiming insider knowledge to help Trump and defame democrats. Followers decided that, due to the pseudonym chosen, he must be someone in the military with Q-level clearance. It’s basically confirmed at this point that Q is (and probably always was) an asshole named Jim Watkins. Jim is the founder of 8kun, which hosts child porn. Hold this in your mind for later.
Qanon centers on the belief that Trump is a) secretly really smart b) secretly a really good guy and c) secretly working behind the scenes to root out the Very Evil Bad Guy Deep State Democrats. At its core, the conspiracy is about worshipping the Asshole, waiting (for now), and interpretation. This allows them to dip into basically every conspiracy theory that has ever existed before. Evil deep state Jewish People? Absolutely. Lizard people (which is just evil deep state Jewish People with a weird new coat)? Yes. Hillary Clinton is the antichrist cause a fly landed on her? Absolutely. Vaccines are a way for uhhhhh Bill Gates to put microchips in your blood? Mhm. 5G caused Coronavirus? Yes. Donald Trump is the archangel Uriel? Jesus, yeah, some of them actually believe that.
Because Q is online, and disparate, and anonymous, and based so heavily on interpretation, people can bring whatever personal brand of crazy they want. It’s dangerous, it sucks you in, and it camouflages itself. Here’s why:
The big, center stage of Qanon the reason you, anon, me, and everyone else on Tumblr has to be just as careful as Aunt Karen, is that Q sucks you in by pretending to care about pedophilia and child trafficking.
Do you remember the Wayfair scandal that got a hundred thousand notes a while back? The one about the cabinets on Wayfair being priced high and having the same names as missing girls? Yeah, that was Qanon conspiracy.
Q gets its talons in good people, people like you and me, by pretending it’s about “saving the children.” It pretends that when it wants to kill individual democrats who oppose Trump, it’s because they’re secretly pedophiles. It positions itself as a moral authority against global elites who are trafficking and abusing innocent children and who can argue with that??
I mean, not me. Hollywood DOES have a pedophilia problem. It just isn’t Chrissy Tiegen, ya know? And I’m sure that there are pedophile democrats but look who they’ve put in the center of their conspiracy theory, a dude who is named in a rape case against a 13yo, a dude who was buds with Jeff Epstein.
Also, I think it’s important to note how wacky their idea of pedophilia is, and how nefarious it gets. Their idea of pedophilia isn’t molestation or anything like that. It’s buying a kid on Wayfair and then raping it in a ritual while you cut its face off and take its blood to harvest a magical chemical called Adrenochrome so you can stay young forever (yes, this is blood libel. Hello again, antisemitism!!) This means that they get desensitized to actual, average, everyday pedophilia. This also means that they sucker you into the rest of their far right death cult. Because if the left is doing this, then you have to be on the right, right?
So what is the right doing?
Well, they’re waiting for something they call the Great Awakening. They’re expecting, soon, televised trials and executions of all of these pedophiles (who are, again, just people who oppose Donald Trump). They are expecting a military takeover of America and the world. They are expecting everyone to be forced to watch this to reprogram their brains and get them used to the new world. They’ve been expecting this for a while (and, not to get too scary, but they’re getting impatient, and they’re getting scared what with the election).
I think Q spreads because it makes the world feel safer and more simple, and that appeals to everyone.
I guess, ultimately anon, Qanon is a right wing death cult that most people think they’re too smart and too good for, but I see Tumblr spread pieces of it ALL the time, and it scares the shit outta me. Good people, smart people get lost to this. Be careful out there, do your research, and always think about who stands to gain power from the things you spread.
(Also if you feel comfortable, it is more than okay to reblog this.)
What we’re seeing right now is a direct result of this. These people lived in an alternate, flattened reality where they were the main characters and nothing could go wrong for them. They firmly believed Trump would be perma-dictator and would save the world by killing non-existent pedos and creating an ethnostate. We are seeing the violence of fantasy land crashing into reality. We are seeing their white supremacist, fascism, and magical thinking turning into a desparate attempt to turn their fantasy into reality. Nobody paid attention to Q anon as it grew. Nobody paid attention to all of its malicious tendrils. I saw Q conspiracy bullshit being spread on Tumblr TODAY. Q scares the shit out of me, and this is why.
After what happened yesterday, they’re going back to unreality and conspiracy. They’re claiming that the deep state and antifa staged the violence and insurrection yesterday. Q people (and others) are claiming that every single anti-American act that took place yesterday was done by antifacists dressed up like fascists to Make Them Look Bad. The point of this is to keep living in this flattened world where they’re the good guys and we’re the bad guys and they’ve got good things coming. They want to keep being able to believe that they’re going to win. Yesterday was supposed to be the Great Awakening, and because they failed, it’s back to conspiracy. Keep your eyes on this. Don’t let them get away with this bullshit.
Oh you just stormed a seat of State power and actually thought it would actually contain the secret that would explain the failings of the atomized and violent society around you, when power is no longer found in such places, but distributed throughout the social fabric and wielded by numerous apparatuses of control and surveillance?
Cringe.
Detail of a wall painting
from the Tomb Chapel of Ramose (TT55). Vizier under both Amenhotep III and Akhenaten. New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, ca. 1550-1292 BC. Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, West Thebes.
This is going to turn into the biggest American political scandal since Watergate
“The defeated president gives a speech to a group of supporters where he tells them he was robbed of the election, denounces his own administration’s members and party as traitors, and tells his supporters to storm the building where the voting is being held,” the NATO intelligence official said.
“The supporters, many dressed in military attire and waving revolutionary-style flags, then storm the building where the federal law-enforcement agencies controlled by the current president do not establish a security cordon, and the protesters quickly overwhelm the last line of police.
“The president then makes a public statement to the supporters attacking the Capitol that he loves them but doesn’t really tell them to stop,” the official said. “Today I am briefing my government that we believe with a reasonable level of certainty that Donald Trump attempted a coup that failed when the system did not buckle.
A judge last month granted a deferred judgment for Michael Ray Stepanek, 45, who told police he drove his Toyota Camry through the crowd in August because the protesters needed “an attitude adjustment.”
People living in Garin, Argentina have been using recycled waste materials to harvest solar energy to heat their water. Garin is a poor neighbourhood, one of many in Argentina, where people sometimes have no electricity or hot water. The system they’re using provides hot water all day long, and is home made from waste drinks bottles, soda cans, and milk cartons.
The solar heaters are part of an initiative by Argentinian non-profit organisation Sumando Energías, who also provide two day workshops to locals who want to learn how to make their own.
“This is a poor neighbourhood and sometimes we have no light or water. These recycled solar panels help us a lot, we have children and it’s useful having […] hot water even though we have no electricity.” – Luis Alberto Quinona, Garin resident
wow funny how white house aides and cabinet members are capable of resigning and speaking against tr*mp now that they’re all going to be unemployed in two weeks anyway and have nothing to lose
so very convenient to suddenly develop “morals” after four years just so you can be absolved in the court of public opinion and while he and his family go back to their gaudy penthouse and suffer no consequences other than MAYBE an exile from politics at the most you get to stroll right back into DC with a clean reputation and denounce him as if you weren’t standing beside him cheering him on the whole way
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