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Thursday March 04, 21
10:24 PM
Well my call for predictions for QAnon and March 4 resulted in remarkably few predictions but here I am undeterred for the follow-up!
No violence so far so that's good. Things could change but it does appear unlikely.
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Forms follow function, and often obliterate it.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by DeathMonkey on Thursday March 04 2021, @10:37PM (8 children)
I think Q is finally done.
Jan 6 showed them to be traitors.
Mar 4 divided them in half. (a lot of Q people were trying to walk back the Mar 4 stuff)
The Trumpers have turned on them by accurately noting how much fun people like I am having with it.
And Q disappeared (or got the 'rona and died)
Put a fork in 'em, they're done.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 04 2021, @11:06PM
Waste of a good fork!
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday March 05 2021, @01:16AM (3 children)
They aren't done, for the same reason religious cults stick around for decades or centuries after their central predictions fail. They're going to be with us permanently, because the core of the Q mindset (almost said "ethos," whoops!) is the same old aggrieved white-boy angst that's been powering the loonie fringe since 1865.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Friday March 05 2021, @03:22AM
Sure there will always be a certain amount of crazy!
It seems like the Q folks may be merging with the existing doomsday evangelists already.
Why QAnon Has Attracted So Many White Evangelicals [fivethirtyeight.com]
And even the Christians are talking about it:
QAnon Conspiracies Sway Faith Groups, Including 1 in 4 White Evangelicals [christianitytoday.com]
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday March 05 2021, @01:52PM (1 child)
How many of those religious cults ever had a impact afterward? Sticking around in dwindling numbers, heavily marginalized (often by choice), is done.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday March 06 2021, @12:26AM
Uh, the Christians and the Muslims...? I'd say that's two pretty damned impactful cults with shelf lives longer than many nations.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday March 05 2021, @04:58PM (2 children)
Isn't Trump supposed to be swept back into power on March 20th?
Also, I hear that Elvis is still actually alive. [time.com] I read it online. So it must be true!
The Electoral College voting is an affirmative action program for low populated states.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 06 2021, @10:28PM (1 child)
The new date is April 1st.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 07 2021, @04:02AM
Oh good, looking forward to the April Fools!
Hey Buzzard, can we have choose your own mod day? I'd mod parent as +1 prescient.
(Score: 1, Touché) by fustakrakich on Thursday March 04 2021, @11:44PM (3 children)
Yeah, he is... And as always, playing second fiddle, this time to the honorable senator from West Virginia.
So, was I right [soylentnews.org]? Did the guy get on TV?
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 4, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Friday March 05 2021, @03:26AM (2 children)
I'm not sure how you're going to make crazies not killing people again a bad thing and also the Democrat's fault and I'm going to need quite a bit more spin to even understand what you're talking about.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Friday March 05 2021, @03:46AM
Hmm, that response would put you in that group of crazies. I can see why you don't understand. You just make up weird shit that was never even implied, much less stated.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 05 2021, @05:09PM
You can't ask a scripted bot to not make stupid mistakes.
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 05 2021, @01:35AM (1 child)
Democrat media creates and spreads Q conspiracy theories, don't come to pass? They still pat themselves on the back.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday March 05 2021, @05:05PM
I'm confused now. Maybe that was your point. Or maybe you are confused.
Isn't it always Trumpers carrying Q signs, wearing Q t-shirts, etc? Isn't it Trumpers saying it will come to pass? But if it doesn't come to pass then it's all the Democrats' fault? Wikipedia says QAnon [wikipedia.org] is a far right wing conspiracy theory.
Why now, do you suddenly not want to own it any more?
The Electoral College voting is an affirmative action program for low populated states.
(Score: 1, Touché) by khallow on Friday March 05 2021, @03:01AM (9 children)
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Friday March 05 2021, @03:37AM (8 children)
Not really, the theory seemed to be that Trump would be reappointed but I didn't see an actual call to action. The ACs were right about that part in the previous discussion.
However, the claim that nobody was buying into the mar 4 thing was disproven because a bunch of people showed up to watch the Re-Inauguration.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 05 2021, @05:25AM (4 children)
As happens in these sorts of things, now the claim the Qult members in my family are passing around is that it will be during Biden's first address to the joint session of Congress. They are also claiming this one on the fourth was an obvious trap despite themselves pushing the memes about it 6 or so weeks ago.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 05 2021, @09:47AM (3 children)
Is deathmonkey in your family?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 05 2021, @11:10AM (2 children)
No, the ones that talk about Q and related conspiracies all live in red states.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 05 2021, @12:02PM (1 child)
The only person talking about march 4th is deathmonkey, I figured they were the ringleader.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday March 05 2021, @05:00PM
Nobody here is talking about that. March 4th is so yesterday's news.
The Electoral College voting is an affirmative action program for low populated states.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 05 2021, @05:32AM
The people that showed up at the Capitol bought into the lies of the media, and only the lies of the media. There was literally zero action from anybody else about March 4th.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday March 05 2021, @02:02PM (1 child)
How big is a "smallish group" or a "smattering" (the actual term used by the reporter in your second link) again? Hint: it's not a "bunch of people" unless you have really low standards. This story is not improved by weasel-speak.
And I think it's telling that the reporter only reported interviewing a couple of people. Sounds to me like QAnon was outnumbered by the usual protesters that show up in Washington DC and the reporter gave up the fight after he found a couple.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Friday March 05 2021, @05:15PM
My prediction was "very sparse" and "bunch" was just a quick way of saying there was a nonzero amount. If you want to insist on the very sparseness of the crowd I will enjoy the reinforcement about how right I was!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 05 2021, @03:30AM
So far, seemingly, no reports of anything in DC.
Only 1.5 hrs to go until March 5.
(Score: 1) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday March 05 2021, @04:43AM
That's because nobody gives a damn about QAnon. Even if they're absolutely correct in every wacky thing they believe (really damn big IF), they're going about things in the stupidest way possible.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 05 2021, @05:28AM (5 children)
There's been no "Q drop" for months. And none of the "Q drops" in recent times said anything whatsoever about March 4th. The whole March 4th thing was created entirely by the corporate media. And it was used to justify a 2 month extension of mass military deployments in DC. Think about that.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 05 2021, @06:01AM (4 children)
Oh great, now we've got our own aspiring Q of SN.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 05 2021, @06:11AM (3 children)
The only secret knowledge I claim ownership of is the ability to use the dark arts of logic, rationale, and deduction.
The sites where people talk about Q/Trump/etc are not exactly secret invite-only hubs. Go anywhere and *nobody* was ever talking about this March 4th nonsense. Yet the corporate media was claiming some imminent threat was brewing. And of course no threat whatsoever came to pass, yet it was used as a justification for the continued militarization of DC. Motivations? No clue, but it's hard to see them being in any way aligned with the interests of society.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 05 2021, @09:27AM
"The whole March 4th thing was created entirely by the corporate media. And it was used to justify a 2 month extension of mass military deployments in DC. Think about that."
Ok Q, very stable genius stuff you're rolling out. You must be so pissed your insurrection was a weak fart, that your comrades are fat idiots and roided up psychopaths. Too bad, so sad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqwgHml1TQE [youtube.com]
You sound like that dude, "think about it!"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 05 2021, @09:41AM (1 child)
Jesus died around 2000 years ago. People are still, to this very second, asking themselves "what would Jesus do?" and "how can I further is His plan?"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 05 2021, @10:04AM
What proof do you have Jesus died at all, let alone 2000 years ago instead of say 1000 years ago?
It was just a story made up by a guy to stop people from trampling his lettuce patch.
https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0303.htm [newadvent.org]
(Score: 1, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 05 2021, @09:49AM (3 children)
We must fund a strong police force to deal with these right wing extremists.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Friday March 05 2021, @05:19PM
Or, maybe we could use some of those funds to pay for mental healthcare interventions that would make police involvement unnecessary.
Make Police Jobs Easier!
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday March 06 2021, @12:29AM
Who modded you Insightful? Policing as we have it is part of the problem. I say "unbundle the police," let them handle only police work, and divert the excess funding into things like community mental health outreach and substance abuse detox programs so these kinds of people don't end up clashing with the cops in the first place.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 07 2021, @12:19AM
^ the onion has been eaten =)