I probably wouldn't have given a shit if the 'Brennan' guy from 8chan hadn't been on Media Roots Radio and a few other chapo-adjacent podcasts. He's a legitimately interesting guy with a lot to say.

Overall the documentary seems to conclude that the 8chan guys were running Q without a lot of direct connection to the white house or even many Republican sources. This seems plausible and could explain why Q didn't seem to have a lot of narrative coherence. Usually GOP media/politicians are almost 100% on-message with the item of the day - Dr. Seuss, antifa, etc.

The documentary also doesn't make the 'tech censorship' against Q or Trump seem so ridiculous. Not sure how I feel about it. It could have been 2 hours shorter..

    • Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      I think the most compelling/accurate theory is "Q" was a few people at different points (including Jim Watkins,) but towards the end Ron Watkins was the one holding onto the tripcode for the Q account. Ron has been walking a tightrope and slipped a few times in his own media sphere since the doc was released, at one point making as lame an excuse as "I couldn't be Q, I wouldn't have ended it like that. Would have been more exciting, you know? Just ending it like that... it isn't like me."

        • Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them]
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          4 years ago

          There haven't been any Q drops since the election.

          People are still pilled, but the "movement" is morphing and fracturing (like everything else in atomized hellworld.)

          It seems to be metastasizing in three distinct directions: New Age/5D/Starseeds, Armageddon Protestants, and CHUD Skeptics/tinfoil hatters.

          I don't think it's lost it's relevancy, so much as things are settling into a new order because the general anxiety is still increasing, it just no longer has a plague locus so-to-speak.

              • GreenTeaRedFlag [any]
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                4 years ago

                I'm not very familiar with new age being crypto fash. I've usually seem it linked with liberals. I guess I'm missing something, where should I learn about this?

                • Tervell [he/him]
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                  4 years ago

                  I don't know about New Age as a whole being crypto fash, but QAnon Anonymous had a great episode with some specific examples of new age people going insane over Q stuff: https://soundcloud.com/qanonanonymous/episode-94-the-new-age-to-qanon-pipeline

            • Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them]
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              4 years ago

              I get the sentiment, I have complicated feelings when it comes to New Age.

              spoiler

              On the one hand I agree with you; and on the other I think New Age Movement was/is necessary for the modernized person to see their idealized-self and break the mold of the culturally-homogenized-self, so that in the future this can be rejected as the holistic-self is recognized. This is very abstract and poorly explained, I haven't ever tried putting this to words before.