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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.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday November 18 2020, @07:29PM (11 children)
If you say so.
So, "fiery but mostly peaceful" until the cops get involved. I've heard that story already.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 18 2020, @07:36PM (10 children)
And the evidence backs up that story.
But evidence isn't important unless it supports your point of view, right?
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday November 18 2020, @07:48PM (9 children)
You say the evidence backs up your story. What happened to your court cases? Who was proven guilty and not guilty? What's that you say? You got all your "evidence" from Lamestream Media and BLM "reporters"? Give me a break - heavily edited BLM "reporter" video ain't gonna cut it. I'll trust Andy Ngo to give as unbiased report as possible, which is exactly why Antifa beat the shit out of him. You don't WANT unbiased reports.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 18 2020, @08:02PM (7 children)
You're adorable!
Are you available for parties?
I guess this [quoteinvestigator.com] is all about you, eh?
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday November 18 2020, @09:05PM (6 children)
I asked about those court cases. You know, the place where you go to present evidence in support of a grievance? You have heard of those, haven't you? I'm all for evidence based apportionment of blame. I am all for the pursuit of justice. But, your claims, supported only by partisan reporting, don't meet the standards expected in court.
You and I both may believe what we want, based on whatever evidence we find acceptable. Show me the court cases. Does your evidence sway a jury? Didn't think so.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 3, Informative) by NickM on Wednesday November 18 2020, @10:18PM (4 children)
He's got a valid point imo. At the PPP summit in Montebello (near Quebec) in 2007, it was discovered that the RCMP or the SQ used "agents provocateurs" to incite violence and discredit the protesters. The RCMP commission cleared them¹, as they always do, and the SQ didn't even open an enquiry but the allegations were credible enough :
https://www.thestar.com/news/2007/08/22/police_deny_using_39provocateurs39_at_summit.html [thestar.com]
I might be a cynic but I would be incredibly surprised if other pollitized police corps didn't use analogous tactics and I would be equally surprised if they didn't received equivalent backing from the people in charge of policing them.
1- Ok, one other time, in a similar inquiry, they received a blame for poor notes taking. It was after the Toronto G20 summit if I remember correctly.
I a master of typographic, grammatical and miscellaneous errors !
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday November 18 2020, @10:51PM (3 children)
Fair enough. And, where else have we seen agents provocateurs?
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/06/06/buffalo-officials-duped-by-professional-antifa-provocateur-arrest-and-charge-two-police-officers-righteous-police-team-stand-together-and-walk-out/ [theconservativetreehouse.com]
Antifa has their own, it seems. You might just do a search for "antifa agent provocateur" if you're curious.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 19 2020, @12:10AM (1 child)
Runaway has gone from the GatewayPundit to the ConservativeTreeHouse? What? Russian Times and the Moonie Times no longer good enough? Faux News gone over to the sane side? Oh, dear! Project Veritas, stat!! A bolus of Brietbart! Parle? Or Parlor? Conservapedia? Full on QAnon. Goodbye, Runaway, goodbye.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 19 2020, @12:22AM
You could do your moronic fapping in private.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 19 2020, @04:49AM
Oh boy.
So I searched for "antifa agent provocateur" and only got a bunch of rightwing pundit websites with only wild speculation. You need help, you are apparently incapable of separating fact from fiction. Your lack of evidence goes well with the lack of logic, why would anyone protesting fascism want to instigate police crackdowns? Doesn't make sense.
However, in one of the pundit sites they were trying to claim that police clamping down on protesters would drive votes. That also doesn't make sense to do at an antifa protest, and the lack of police action against trumpers shows that theory is total bunk.
So pack it up buddy, the GOP is lying to you for power, spreading bad medical advice to keep their stocks up, and motivating you and your friends to commit politically motivated terrorism.
Real question, are you sympathetic to rightwing domestic terrorists? Do you think they are the actual freedom fighters going to save you from the ghost of communism??
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 18 2020, @11:08PM
Does that mean "yes"?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 19 2020, @05:59AM
Well, there is this one court case: https://apnews.com/article/kyle-rittenhouse-extradition-kenosha-4a2be2814fe56d961a22b76943a24426 [apnews.com]