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QAnon began with “Q,” a persona claiming to be someone within the government, promising to expose how dark forces are working against Trump and his administration. The “Anon” part comes from Q’s readers, who decipher Q’s “clues” on message boards and build outlandish interpretations. Posters named “Q” have been instigating unfounded theories on social networks including 4Chan, 8Chan, and Reddit.
“[Conspiracy theories] like this fill an important psychological role for many people,” Thomas J. Wood, an assistant professor of Political Science at Ohio State University who has studied how conspiracy theories gain public support, told Yahoo Finance. “It tends to sway those who have chronic anxiety and feel disaffected by politics by providing a symbolic and intuitive story for them.”
Previous research, summarized by the New York Times, has found that people who believe in conspiracy theories “are more likely to be cynical about the world in general and politics in particular. Conspiracy theories also seem to be more compelling to those with low self-worth, especially with regard to their sense of agency in the world at large. Conspiracy theories appear to be a way of reacting to uncertainty and powerlessness.”
Believing in conspiracies, denying all news sources except their own trusted propaganda sources and relishing in Trump's attacks on “the other” are all symptoms of their own fear and loathing.
Even when they’re winning, they know that they will ultimately lose.
QAnon began with “Q,” a persona claiming to be someone within the government, promising to expose how dark forces are working against Trump and his administration. The “Anon” part comes from Q’s readers, who decipher Q’s “clues” on message boards and build outlandish interpretations. Posters named “Q” have been instigating unfounded theories on social networks including 4Chan, 8Chan, and Reddit.
“[Conspiracy theories] like this fill an important psychological role for many people,” Thomas J. Wood, an assistant professor of Political Science at Ohio State University who has studied how conspiracy theories gain public support, told Yahoo Finance. “It tends to sway those who have chronic anxiety and feel disaffected by politics by providing a symbolic and intuitive story for them.”
Previous research, summarized by the New York Times, has found that people who believe in conspiracy theories “are more likely to be cynical about the world in general and politics in particular. Conspiracy theories also seem to be more compelling to those with low self-worth, especially with regard to their sense of agency in the world at large. Conspiracy theories appear to be a way of reacting to uncertainty and powerlessness.”
"Q" is probably some 15 year old computer geek who is having the time of his life, pulling the wool over the eyes of these weak minded people. The thing about the internet is, you never know who is sitting at the other end of the wire.
He has taken these fools in hook, line, and sinker.
Relentless attack on Q lately. Hmmm wonder why. Something big is coming and someone near and dear to libs is about to be exposed.
No people are just getting "woke" about the dangers of Q and QAnon and need to make a choice between the red pill and find out what the world really is or blue pill and go back to sleep and believe what they will (conspiracy theorists.) I didn't know about Q but QAnon has become big due to the signs at more recent Trump rallies.
Qanon is excessively small. And dumb. It has been from the beginning. The Left has no shortage of equal and greater conspiracies that their media ever insists on trying to make mainstream. To test the Left's allegiance to these conspiracies, merely state a counter-fact to any and watch them have a melt-down.
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