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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: 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??