dtolman
1649
I’ve been getting this “helpful” warning from relatives who I think are only q-anon adjacent OAN watchers - so this has bled into the more “mainstream” of Trump fanatics who are mostly engaged via radio / TV / social media.
The Q loons have been a national security issue for years now, and it’s high time they were taken seriously.
Menzo
1652
This is a great writeup.
I particularly like this framing:
Big tech companies — who, while powerful, are weaker than, and have a healthy fear of the government — are now treating QAnon almost like how they treat ISIS. A giant federal apparatus built to fight al Qaeda will shift some capacity to fighting you, especially the white nationalist and anti-government militias in your orbit.
This isn’t innocent people getting deplatformed. It’s people plotting to overturn an American election by force. They should be treated like ISIS is treated.
ShivaX
1653
And it’s not just Big Tech. You’re seeing a lot of media organizations do it as well.
Which they should. People can bitch about Free Speech all they want, but you didn’t see al-Baghdadi on CNN or Fox News. No one cried that his rights were being infringed or the like.
KevinC
1655
Ugh. “Are you a democ-RAT?”. You could hear the suppressed violence in his voice.
I don’t know how far it’s going to go but I don’t see how we get out of this year without incidences of political violence. I know, I’m a real Nostradamus here. Just sayin’.
Timex
1656
lol that guy’s got the same energy as the “I want to shake his hand!” guy.
This can go in any number of threads:
The right-wing Q idiots do really incite violence, the kind of violence we don’t talk about here.
Is it really hard to understand that you might have it in the early stages and feel healthy, but can spread it to others?
Menzo
1659
One example of the MAGA delusion. As if these idiots would have held anything real back because it was “deemed unnecessary to win.”
These things always have to involve sex with children. I think these MAGA people are the real alien lizard people. Maybe sex with lizard young is a thing on the planet they come from.
Menzo
1662
Trump has them right where he wants them! You have to admit it’s a genius plan: lose the election, then lose more than 60 lawsuits objecting to the results, foment an insurrection that leaves five dead, then get impeached. Your enemies have been lulled into a false sense of security so on the day you’re ushered out of the office, it’s Order 66 time and all your enemies are thrown out of helicopters.
The plan is so foolproof the idiot followers can blab about it ahead of time. Genius!
These people, I swear to God.
Thrag
1665
These guys are idiots. I mean he wasn’t tapping in morse code. He was blinking it. I’ve gone frame by frame through that video and he is clearly blinking out “Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn”.
You just don’t have the secret decoder ring for that.
