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How three conspiracy theorists took 'Q' and sparked Qanon
NBC News ^ | 8/14/2018 | Brandy Zadrozny and Ben Collins

Posted on 08/14/2018 8:38:19 PM PDT by catnipman

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one claim for the origins of qanon ...
1 posted on 08/14/2018 8:38:19 PM PDT by catnipman
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To: catnipman

Blue-pillers refusing to get Red-pilled.


2 posted on 08/14/2018 8:42:05 PM PDT by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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How weird. How many more “we can prove q is a fake (((giggle))) will be posted tonight?


3 posted on 08/14/2018 8:42:42 PM PDT by KittenClaws (What liberals lack in intelligence and/or education, they make up for in furious malevolence)
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I would be embarrassed that leftists think conservatives are a bunch of Alex Jones devotees paying careful and close attention to Q anon. But then I really don’t care what leftists think.


4 posted on 08/14/2018 8:44:33 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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[How many more “we can prove q is a fake (((giggle))) will be posted tonight?]

Q: “I can explain it to you, but I can’t understand it for you.”


5 posted on 08/14/2018 8:45:24 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm ( 32:12))
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The big takeaway:

“While the identity of the original author or authors behind “Q” is still unknown, the history of the conspiracy theory’s spread is well-documented — through YouTube videos, social media posts, Reddit archives, and public records reviewed by NBC News.”

So even NBC News says it has no idea who is “Q.” All this is amounts to a few people running off in a direction with an offshoot.

6 posted on 08/14/2018 8:46:41 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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...just what they want us to think.


7 posted on 08/14/2018 8:48:43 PM PDT by BobL (I drive a pick up truck because it makes me feel like a man)
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I see no claim in the article that anyone can prove who has been posting as Q. The topic appears to be who’s responsible for popularizing Q, not who Q actually is.


8 posted on 08/14/2018 8:51:46 PM PDT by sourcery (Non Aquiesco: "I do not consent" (Latin))
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Not to mention.... you have conflated the words... “leftists” and “think” . They uh, don’t. They emote. Like in this article, the emotion is “these are conspiracy whackos, and it’s a fake creation”. Lotta noise all over the MSM for it to be a fraud. In the old days, when these experts toppled govts. there was a term for the real action people— ratf-——rs. Just think of what it means that Strzok was a CIA asset planted in the FBI in counterintel position. So he could “cover” the domestic crap Brennan and Clapper were doing (and not doing well, thinking of when you had real OSS experienced people like Casey, working for Reagan).

This “article” is yet another attempt to stifle the notion there is an active group of very savvy peeps at work on this, as counter to the administrative state and the MSM. The best ones taking out the media pervos and pedos. Am fine with that “protected” class of “intelligentsia” getting busted and or forced to suicide. They are beyond clinical help, and do us all a favor.


9 posted on 08/14/2018 8:53:47 PM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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They’re sh!ttin’ themselves.


10 posted on 08/14/2018 8:53:57 PM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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Is there really an active group of very active peeps at work? Is this what you think Q is about? Are Q bots really actively at work taking out the media pervs and pedos?

When I look at Q anon, all I see are FR threads with hundreds of replies. Replies from people fooling themselves into believing they are on to some secret code and that this makes any sense or any difference.

Q anon is nothing more than this year‘s pizza gate conspiracy theory.


11 posted on 08/14/2018 9:04:44 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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Because everyone always believes NBC. They would never create fake news.

People should ask themselves why the entire MSM collectively and almost without exception completely ignored Q. Then on one particular day they all came out attacking it all in unison.

It proves total collusion in the MSM media if it proves nothing else. They are controlled.


12 posted on 08/14/2018 9:07:15 PM PDT by Revel
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13 posted on 08/14/2018 9:13:16 PM PDT by a fool in paradise
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QH is HQ spelled sdrawkcab!


14 posted on 08/14/2018 9:14:05 PM PDT by a fool in paradise
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To: All

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Trust Jeff Sessions

Trust the Plan.

Stay out the Bushes.

repeat

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15 posted on 08/14/2018 9:14:16 PM PDT by AnthonySoprano
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To: Responsibility2nd

The point is that most of the “Facts” in these MSM stories are provably false. If you believe Q is real or not- Some of the facts are as wrong as if I said the White House is Purple. Would you call me out on that? If someone had told you in 2016- all the details of the “Insurance Policy” against Trump And how many officials were involved. Then you would have screamed- Conspiracy-Kook nonsense. What is going on in the MSM and the way that they collectively and relentlessly attack Trump is prof of a real conspiracy also. A good rule of thumb is that if the MSM tells you that something is not true. Then it probably is.


16 posted on 08/14/2018 9:20:11 PM PDT by Revel
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To: Revel

The media is the deep state.


17 posted on 08/14/2018 9:24:35 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Revel
It proves total collusion in the MSM media if it proves nothing else.

the media is the deep state

18 posted on 08/14/2018 9:25:58 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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one claim for the origins of qanon ...

Uh, no, that's not what these article authors are claiming. . . they merely found three Q followers who claim to have "popularized" Q and are trying to make money off of that popularity they claim to have engendered.

Read for clarity and comprehension:

Now, the people behind that effort are at the center of a fractious debate among conspiracy enthusiasts, some of whom believe the three people who first popularized the Qanon theory are promoting it in order to make a living. Others suggest that these original followers actually wrote Q’s mysterious posts.

While the identity of the original author or authors behind “Q” is still unknown, the history of the conspiracy theory’s spread is well-documented — through YouTube videos, social media posts, Reddit archives, and public records reviewed by NBC News.

The only ones who are debating that these guys ever wrote Q's drops are the authors of this article and the people THEY'VE tried to persuade. There is no evidence for this theory.

Let me ask you something: Why would one of the supposed Q anon believers who all supposedly think Trump is part of Q if not the mastermind behind Q, would this supposed Q follower be threatening to assassinate Trump? That makes zero sense. Perhaps he is just a deranged crazy person?

There is not one claim in there that is verifiable. . . just a rehashing of the anons speculation from the past several months about who Q might be. It's BOVINE EXCREMENT, through and through.

19 posted on 08/14/2018 9:29:40 PM PDT by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplaphobe bigot!)
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“NBC News has found that the theory can be traced back to three people.”

Fake news. NBC has lost accountability and is a failed organization.

Q is winning the loyalty of patriots, because Q has accountability and supports a successful organization. Traitors fail to understand this enthymeme. Every accountable and successful organization inspires loyalty.
https://www.resignation.info/


20 posted on 08/14/2018 9:31:38 PM PDT by Falconspeed ("Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94))
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