• zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      3 years ago

      The thing about QAnon is that - like all great propaganda - it hews very closely to the truth.

      There IS a massive pedophile ring at the highest eschalons of power. Our government IS complicit in atrocities and WILL cover up these vulgar abuses of power. The media IS gaslighting us, diverting our attention, and turning us against one another. And we SHOULD be storming our capitol in protest.

      But the folks leading the QAnon movement aren't the deep-state turncoats and perennial civilian victims - the Snowdens and Mannings and BLM activists, and guerrilla journalists - who are witnessing abuses on the front lines. They're just another layer of media gaslighters and political grifters and sexual predators.

      In some sense, QAnon is self-evidentiary. It's a theory of a conspiracy to protect the government from accountability which metastasized into that very conspiracy.