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06 Nov 2020, 5:46 pm

2 men arrested near Philadelphia vote center had QAnon paraphernalia, AR-15 in car

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Two armed men were arrested Thursday near the Philadelphia convention center where votes were being tallied, police said.

The men — a 61-year-old and a 42-year-old — traveled to the city from Virginia in a silver Hummer, and they were arrested after the FBI field office in Norfolk, Virginia, received a tip about their plans, Philadelphia Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw said at a news conference Friday.

Police said they found the car parked and unoccupied around 10:20 p.m. Eastern; about seven minutes later, two police officers on bicycles saw the two men in possession of firearms.

Officers saw that one man had a Beretta 9mm pistol holstered on his hip, and the other man appeared to have a concealed Beretta .40 caliber handgun, according to Outlaw. They also had an AR-15 style weapon in their truck, with approximately 160 rounds of ammunition.

Police said the men, who have not been publicly identified and did not have valid Pennsylvania firearms licenses, would be charged with firearms offenses.

The men may also face election law violations, according to officials.


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06 Nov 2020, 5:52 pm

I'm still struggling to come to terms with the fact that QAnon is a real movement and not just satire/parody.



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06 Nov 2020, 7:54 pm

Feyokien wrote:
I'm still struggling to come to terms with the fact that QAnon is a real movement and not just satire/parody.


Or that so many people tolerate them. They won seats in Georgia, North Carolina and Colorado.


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06 Nov 2020, 8:05 pm

QaNON. Is a real thing Are they their own party or a offshoot of democrats or Republicans?


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06 Nov 2020, 9:05 pm

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QaNON. Is a real thing Are they their own party or a offshoot of democrats or Republicans?


Not a political party. It’s a conspiracy theory that alleges that the Democrats and George Soros operated a child sex/child porn club in the basement of a D.C. pizzeria.

They think Biden will legalize pedophilia. “Pedophile” is to QAnon what “Communist” was to Joe McCarthy in the 1950s.


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06 Nov 2020, 9:18 pm

The QAnon movement might be the new "tea Party:" that dogged Obama during his tenure.

For the Trump "true believers" who morphed from tea party to MAGAs (see below)

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It might be the start of a 4 year civil war

They are starting to make their presence more known
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... s-congress
https://www.politico.eu/article/europe- ... -election/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... h-congress



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06 Nov 2020, 9:56 pm

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06 Nov 2020, 10:24 pm

Feyokien wrote:
I'm still struggling to come to terms with the fact that QAnon is a real movement and not just satire/parody.

Honestly my guess is that Qanon was created by trolls looking to see how gullible some Trump supporters are when it comes to baseless conspiracy theories. And then things got way out of hand.
The answer is that some of them are shockingly, homicidally gullible.


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06 Nov 2020, 10:31 pm

roronoa79 wrote:
Feyokien wrote:
I'm still struggling to come to terms with the fact that QAnon is a real movement and not just satire/parody.

Honestly my guess is that Qanon was created by trolls looking to see how gullible some Trump supporters are when it comes to baseless conspiracy theories. And then things got way out of hand.
The answer is that some of them are shockingly, homicidally gullible.


Among those who subscribe to QAnon conspiracy theories include Trump's former chief strategist Steve Bannon (who was instrumental to his election win in 2016) and celebrity republican lawyer Lin Wood who notoriously (but successfully) defended Covington MAGA Nick Sandmann and is currently trying to defend murderer Kyle Rittenhouse who killed BLM protestors.



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07 Nov 2020, 3:19 am

Background on QAnon:

General info:
- What is QAnon? A quick history by William Woodring, The Suffolk Journal (Suffolk University, Boston), October 27, 2020
- QAnon: What is it and where did it come from? by Mike Wendling, BBC, 20 August 2020.
- What is QAnon? The origins of bizarre conspiracy theory spreading online by Andrew Griffin, Independent (UK), Wednesday 07 October 2020: "The story touches on just about every part of public life, and is making its way into the mainstream"

Suspected originators:
- How three conspiracy theorists took 'Q' and sparked Qanon by Brandy Zadrozny and Ben Collins, NBC News, Aug. 14, 2018: "Pushing the theory on to bigger platforms proved to be the key to Qanon’s spread — and the originators’ financial gain."
- The men behind QAnon by Chris Francescani, ABC News, September 22, 2020: "Experts and researchers said the key to 'Q' is hiding in plain sight."

Dangers:
- QAnon's growth mirrors sharp spike in far-right extremist violence in US: Experts by Chris Francescani, ABC News, September 22, 2020: "President Donald Trump's reelection could normalize the extremism, experts fear."
- Trump Said QAnon ‘Fights’ Pedophilia. But The Group Has Made It Harder To Protect Kids by Kaleigh Rogers, FiveThirtyEight, Oct. 15, 2020

Influence:
- QAnon Isn’t Going To Take Over Congress In 2020. But It’s Found A Home In The GOP by Kaleigh Rogers, FiveThirtyEight, Oct. 29, 2020


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