Some links to Q-related items today
Proud Boys and… Minecraft?
The Proud Boys talked a lot about Minecraft, according to evidence that's come out in the ongoing trial of leaders. But why? As an odd way to try to sort of cover their tracks … https://t.co/1YSVTrHaea
— Mike Wendling (@mwendling) February 11, 2023
Antivaxx guy Stew Peters branches out into earthquake conspiracies
That "HAARP-made" cloud is actually a Lenticular cloud, which was seen in Bursa, Turkey, in mid-January.
Also, love the fact he's put earthquake in quotation marks, as if it was fake or something. pic.twitter.com/CnjnhZQ3zS
— Shayan Sardarizadeh (@Shayan86) February 11, 2023
Meanwhile, in Los Angeles
I’m at a consciousness / conspirituality expo and this anti-vax white guy reggae song is bringing down the house. pic.twitter.com/EEXF9AMFcS
— Brad (@LoveAndSaucers) February 11, 2023
Reminder: The Q phenomenon was just stirring up long-held right wing panics
There are people in this big and beautiful world who would look at this and go,
"A-HA, THIS PERSON DID QANON."
But no: QAnon's narrative is a pastiche of ideas that were WILDLY popular both on 4chan & in the broader conservative conspiracist world.https://t.co/vSZJySssjw pic.twitter.com/C9jcHpH8KU
— The Q Origins Project (@QOrigins) February 11, 2023
Meanwhile, at Twitter
hats off to whichever engineer was like “you’re too popular mister musk, our servers can’t handle it” https://t.co/Sk3XvOzv8Y
— Pliny Thee Elder (@GoogleForBirds) February 12, 2023
Looking for some background on the QAnon movement? We recommend Travis View’s excellent article at New York magazine as a place to start.
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Posted by Tony Ortega on February 12, 2023 at 08:00
