A politics comment, guilded at 7k, linked at best of, got people daring them to post to conspiracy. Its mostly anti-Q. I guess Q followers are too dumb to even know how to use reddit.

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Sorting by controversial gives me an awful feeling in my stomach.

They demand proof that Gab is a white supremacist hideaway then don’t accept any of the proof. Like I knew already there’s no arguing with people. I just don’t see a way to fix this.

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Extreme violence.

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I just don’t see a way to fix this.

physical removal?

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. I feel so many of them could have rolled into any sort of left theory with proper intervention

That was me. I loved talking about aliens and hallow Earth (I know it’s bullshit, but still fun to talk about). Then 2016 started to roll around and everyone started talking about how Trump was gonna get rid of the elites. Motherfucker, the Yankee literally lives in a golden palace in the sky, he doesn’t give two shits about a backwoods hillbilly like you. Literally IS the elite. Him and the whitewashing of him in that sub is what we’ve been yelling about for years. The propaganda we’ve been making wild accusations about. I had to abandon ship after that.

Then it was a short ride down the Marxist rabbit hole.

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It’s not surprising. There’s research suggesting that believing in one conspiracy theory makes you more susceptible to believing in others.

The structure of conspiracy is that some shadowy cabal is doing [bad thing] and they’re hiding it from the rest of us. The evil people in charge at NASA, the Vatican, and every institute of higher learning ever want to brainwash us into thinking the Earth is round. And big surprise, those evil people in charge are also Jews. Antisemitism fits into almost every Western conspiracy theory.

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I think a big difference between leftist way of thinking and conspiracy theorist way of thinking is the following:

Conspiracy nuts see “the elites” as this grand, mysterious, near all-powerful group of superhumans basically. They clearly view them as inherently superior for them to be able to weave these grand conspiracies together. It ties in with the average right-wingers hierarchal way of thinking, where many of them know that they’ll never be billionaires themselves but they’re still willing to fight for them, because they think they deserve it, they’re just superior people in their mind and and them being at the top is just the natural way of things. That’s why conspiracy nuts believe these outrageous theories, because in their mind the elites are capable of literally everything.

Whereas leftists see the elites as idiots just like the rest of us who exploited others to get to the top, or just popped out the right vagina. We know they’re normal people who couldn’t engineer a coronavirus conspiracy if you gave them a manual for it.

This theory is based on nothing but armchair psychology and it’s pure speculation so take everything with a grain of salt but I’d be curious to know what you guys think of it.

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Well of course they are, it was the Jews who flattened the earth, obviously.

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I think Watkins just saw it was gaining popularity and stole it. I think it started on 4chan then moved to 8chan which Watkins owned.

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Given how 4chan normally works, I suspect the original QAnon was just a community-established running joke that metasticized into a real thing by way of gullible inertia.

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It absolutely goes

  1. Original Q on /pol/
  2. ??? [During this time there was the 8chan move and whatnot]
  3. Watkins

I’m just not sure why the original poster even matters haha. Q’s heyday on /pol/ was the same time as the RoguePotusStaff type accounts on twitter and High Level Insider /pol/ posters which were essentially just people exercising their creative writing skills and somehow actually getting people to believe that Trump watches The Gorilla Channel for eight hours each day.

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Don’t know what I expected the guy to look like

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Younger, honestly. Maybe someone in a wheel chair or a mechanical scooter.

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Oh, he’s not the original creator of the site. You (and I) were thinking about Fredrick Brennan aka “Hotwheels”.

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Didn’t Frederick completely disown the site And his far right ideology a little bit ago?

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