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Re:What Alternate Reality Games Can Teach Us About QAnon by ed25519FUUU on Sunday August 02, 2020 @12:12PM (#24029523)
Qanon is a funny thing to me. The actual things written by the person or people under “Q” are almost completely detached from what I see people share and post on social media.

But as someone who followed the spygate saga, Q seemed to know just enough inside baseball to make it interesting and keep me curious. I thought maybe some foreign intelligence op or something.

To give Qanon credit though, they were taking about Epstein for two years, when Epstein was still considered untouchable. Apparently their cohort isn’t so untouchable anymore.

Re:What Alternate Reality Games Can Teach Us About QAnon by Theory5 on Sunday August 02, 2020 @12:51PM (#24029775)
>But as someone who followed the spygate saga, Q seemed to know just enough inside baseball to make it interesting and keep me curious. I thought maybe some foreign intelligence op or something.

You ever see a psychic or other con-person work? Think more like that.

Re:What Alternate Reality Games Can Teach Us About QAnon by ed25519FUUU on Sunday August 02, 2020 @01:30PM (#24030042)
Based on what I've read, I think I can safely rule out a con-man unless they seem to have intimate understanding and knowledge of the inner workings of the FBI, though a "con" is certainly on the table.

Among the intelligence people I follow (such as Rich Higgins, former NSC staffer), the consensus seems to be that Q is a psyop against POTUS, from either a foreign or domestic intelligence[1]). People can decide for themselves.

I can't point to any concrete "predictions" from Q other than Ted Cruz's campaign was also spied on. The only "prediction" with a date turned out totally false.

https://twitter.com/RichHiggins_DC/status/126075222668070093...

Re:What Alternate Reality Games Can Teach Us About QAnon by acdha on Sunday August 02, 2020 @06:17PM (#24032262)
That guy is currently repeating predictions that teen angst over losing TikTok will lead to a Pol Pot style uprising and comparing the protests in Portland to Nazis. I wouldn’t trust him on anything without a credible source.