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QAnon again - fascinating

Journal by c0lo

A Game Designer’s Analysis Of QAnon - Playing with reality (20min+ read. A bit lengthy, but it worth)

In brief - apophenia. Just a tad more elaborated - induced/guided aphonenia.

What's fascinating is the buttons of human psyche that are pushed to sink people deep into the rabbit holes:
- Follow The Breadcrumbs - don't tell, just select the dots that are to be connected
- The Eureka Effect - the rush of the Aha! moments and the feeling of being rewarded
- Lamestream Media - passivate against the reality that's not supportive to the agenda
- Community - sense of belonging, behavior reinforcement; a population large and motivated enough to adopt an evolutionary strategy in selecting the best CT-es

All the above are exemplified - and these examples is how I got to get WTF Beyoncé has to do with QAnon.

So, if all it's an Alternate Reality Game, there's no harm, right? Not so fast, the US Military Academy ran the The QAnon Conspiracy Theory: A Security Threat in the Making? article in its "Combating Terrorism Center" journal, stating

QAnon represents a public security threat with the potential in the future to become a more impactful domestic terror threat. This is true especially given that conspiracy theories have a track record of propelling terrorist violence elsewhere in the West as well as QAnon’s more recent influence on mainstream political discourse.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 18 2020, @06:39PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 18 2020, @06:39PM (#1078886)

    I'm mostly just a normal person who's certainly been pushed away from any sort of mainstream political viewpoint largely because of the reasons I'm discussing here.

    Ferkin closet racists!

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 18 2020, @09:32PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 18 2020, @09:32PM (#1078965)

    Submitted into evidence as one example of the left alienating moderates and centrists. "If you're not with us, you're against us and you're a RACISSSS!" Parent missed the opportunity to use a few other choice terms such as homophobic, islamophobic, mysoginist, etc.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 19 2020, @06:28AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 19 2020, @06:28AM (#1079104)

      Oh, look! Another fucking racist! Hope you have fun all racisting together! Not really, we are coming to genocide you racist bastards. Americans, all Americans, have no use for you, and if you raise your flag, we will take you out. Copy?