The Wizard of Q
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It's worth examining because it sheds light on how the less obviously false narratives most of the rest of us invest in are spun. Since it's so crazy, the mechanisms are more clear. Since it still works on many people, the mechanisms aren't that different.
I don't know who Q is (other than clearly not who they claim to be) or what their objective is, but it's definitely worth keeping an eye on.
If Q actually were a pro-Trump psyop (not out of the question given how Internet-savvy his campaign was) then Q may actually have some inside information, resulting in some very effective cold reading. This could also be the case if Q is someone else's psyop (Russia, China, Saudi Arabia, Israel, organized crime, etc.) and has a line into its employer's intelligence apparatus.
I realize this may also verge on conspiracy theory, but looking around the world at nations as diverse as Russia, China, and Turkey, and now at the USA I feel we are in the final stages of what amounts to a global elite deviant takeover. The world will soon be a mafia state of sorts ruled over by a superclass of amoral gangsters who use state of the art surveillance technology and psychological warfare techniques to manage the population. It will be a "velvet glove, iron fist" system like Singapore where the need to actually "disappear" people is significantly mitigated by the clever deployment of psyops to head off any substantial resistance before it's an issue.
William Gibson was a prophet. It never ceases to amaze me how perfectly he nailed the zeitgeist of the 21st century. This is the criminal age.
I also can't help but factor in the rapid development of the space industry. History does tend to rhyme. During the last "age of discovery" a major motive for people leaving Europe was to escape an extremely corrupt and decadent oligarchy. Maybe people will flee to Mars to escape the modern version of bawdy oligarchs in powdered wigs and merkins.
Who knows... maybe corruption and social meltdown is some kind of built-in developmental phase in our species that works to drive us outward in another burst of colonization. If I were an alien watching I'd be scared to death and debating the wisdom of just hitting Earth with a kinetic weapon before it's too late.
You realize you sound a lot like this QAnon guy yourself now, right?
The thing I find alarming is that nobody looks good. The whole thing looks like crooks vs crooks, and I don't just mean in the USA.
Like, the "Q" prediction of a "liquidity event"? That's vague enough so as to be applicable to almost anything post-hoc. Dropping "clues", requiring audience participation and effort, claiming you see the truth but can't quite see the truth 100% clearly without the help of your mark? That's cold reading, man.
If I had to put money on a psyop though, it'd be an anti-Trump op, not a pro-Trump op. The Qanon Choose Your Own Adventure™ scam has tarpitted so many Trumpists into days and days of conspiratorial nonsense that their advocacy is ceasing to be effective.
Maybe it's just some basement dweller getting their lulz by taking the fashy "autist" chan crowd for a ride.
Simple explanation: it's not so obviously false.
If you believe in the supernatural, what is basically a supernatural proxy war taking place in the background isn't so unbelievable.
Audience participation doesn't seem too common. Q's genre is the detective story, not the straightforward thriller.
Are there examples of blatant falsehood you can point me too? I am fascinated by this and would love to read any good analysis you’ve found. I’ve found so much written about it to be lacking in specificity and original sources.
Literally posts things that happen VERBATIM days later. "obviously false narrative"? Hardly.
The interesting thing is the people who comb through the text "cloud-spotting" for little bits of text that fit their narrative and reposting those bits announcing that "Q is right!"
If all you read is that second order feed from those people, you can see how someone who's not very informed might start to believe. Its like a twisted horoscope.
The really interesting thing is that as the random text from the Q account moves down through social media accounts, it somehow becomes "news"!
Q doesn’t use Twitter. Q has stated numerous times any communication outside of 8chan is not Q.
Sounds like the vanguard of the master race need to get a real job.
I don't read my horoscope very often either.
- he predicted the President's Twitter going down.
- he predicted the upheavals in Saudi Arabia.
- he predicted the Pope would want to change the Lord's Prayer.
- he predicted a bombing attempt by a Bangladeshi national in NYC.
- he posted original photos taken from AF1 that matched the President's Far East itinerary.
- he used phrases the President would tweet a few minutes later.
- the President once pasted an anon's comment into his Twitter showing he was watching live.
He leaked on 4chan for a month, then moved to 8chan /cbts/ - my board. I ran this board for just over a month and he made 200+ posts on it. From Jan 5 to the present, it's been an imposter who cracked his tripcode password, and it's worthless nonsense: cold reading, vague terminology and the like.
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Since Q was partially outed a couple days ago, Corsi has been on Alex Jonestown twice now (even though they were previously promoting it) saying Q has been taken over and is now disinfo generated by AI.