And then Qanon happened.
Qanon is an op.
"Hey, ignore that real-ass pedo ring over there, and have a look at these shiny things over here!"
That shit has CIA written all over it.
In my more conspiratiorial moments I defeinitely wonder. The fact that ti became so huge in the immediate wake of the Epstein affair, and yet in no way incriminates the actual people involved (Except Bill Clinton sometimes) is really odd.
Is it really conspiratorial? You already had a severely brain poisoned population. Just add some more weird shit and it'll write itself.
It is genuinely upsetting that we have an actual pedophile cabal running the US and Qanon people are worried about Tom Hanks
Well that's the point, they're like someone who likes an obscure band: they don't want the "truth" to become popular or be resolved.
They want to perpetually be the freedom fighters, the truth-tellers, the superheroes of their own narrative. When reality reveals itself--it's not as epic as they hoped, and worse, they're not the main character. So they blow it off.
And as someone else noted, Qanon is a straight op--improvised and co-opted, but an op--to pull attention from other sick shit
