QAnon Content is 'Evaporating' from the Internet.

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27 May 2021, 9:43 am

Since social media companies cracked down on QAnon content following the January 6 Capitol coup attempt, catchphrases and secret messages related to the conspiracy theory have all but disappeared.

Key facts include, and are not limited to:

• A report published by the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensics Lab on Wednesday concluded that QAnon-related chatter surged at the beginning of the pandemic, peaked in June 2020 during the protests following George Floyd’s death, and spiked again in the lead-up to the January 6 Capitol coup attempt.

• Appearances of QAnon-related content on mainstream social media platforms decreased to a low murmur after social media companies tightened their moderation policies and banned thousands of QAnon accounts and groups after the Capitol coup attempt.

• The prolonged silence from the original Q poster, as well as former President Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss and encouragement from many in the Q online community to use different code language has also had an effect on the decline in QAnon-related chatter.

• Despite increased attention on alternative social media platforms like Parler, Gab, and Telegram, QAnon-related chatter has not come close to reaching the scale it once did on mainstream social media platforms.

• Popular traditional QAnon catch phrases include "WWG1WGA" ("Where we go one we go all"), "The Storm", and the "Great Awakening" -- which have been ditched by continued adherents of the conspiracy to avoid detection.

QAnon cultists are still anxiously waiting for the day when former president Trump will round up and arrest an alleged global network of Hollywood actors, Democrats, and other celebrities they falsely believe are running a child sex trafficking ring.  The adherents developed entrenched communities online, and communicate with each other using code language and catchphrases. The January 6 coup attempt was organized by many of the same right-wing message boards where the conspiracy theory thrived, and several rioters were identified as known QAnon influencers.  After President Joe Biden was legally inaugurated on January 20, and the QAnon community's big day obviously never came, many followers lost faith and the anonymous Q poster went silent.

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27 May 2021, 5:30 pm

Censorship won't stop this beast. They'll use this as an excuse to stifle basically anything that's not corporate approved big media. So long as the decline in the middle class continues, political extremism will grow... right and left.



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27 May 2021, 5:54 pm

These fools will go into hiding now their biggest benefactor is no longer POTUS,

The problem is when things become unstable again they can always rely on at least 74 million twits who put their trust in the same madman in 2020.



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27 May 2021, 6:13 pm

NoClearMind53 wrote:
Censorship won't stop this beast...
... but a heart attack or stroke will ... the former president is in his 70s and has an appetite for junk food.

Once the head is beyond recovery, the body of the beast will fall as well.


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27 May 2021, 7:23 pm

Fnord wrote:
NoClearMind53 wrote:
Censorship won't stop this beast...
... but a heart attack or stroke will ... the former president is in his 70s and has an appetite for junk food.

Once the head is beyond recovery, the body of the beast will fall as well.

Not true. They will keep finding these kinds of people. It doesn't ever end with a single man. The same problem is happening all kinds of places all over the world. Someone smarter would be much more dangerous too.



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28 May 2021, 2:26 am

Fnord wrote:
NoClearMind53 wrote:
Censorship won't stop this beast...
... but a heart attack or stroke will ... the former president is in his 70s and has an appetite for junk food.

Once the head is beyond recovery, the body of the beast will fall as well.


Well, we can always hope.


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28 May 2021, 8:26 am

As of Wednesday (2021-05-26), QAnon adherents have committed 79 ideologically motivated crimes across the United States, researchers from the Domestic Radicalization Project at the University of Maryland found.

Over half of those crimes (40) were committed by QAnon believers who had stormed the Capitol in the coup attempt on January 6.

Other crimes include a man who set fire to a Washington, D.C., pizzeria at the center of the baseless "Pizzagate" conspiracy theory -- an offshoot of QAnon -- in 2019 and another man who fired shots in the pizzeria during a rampage in 2016.

In 2019, a 37-year-old Illinois woman who had posted frequently about the QAnon conspiracy theory online was arrested after she drove to New York City with a collection of knives and threatened to "take out" President Joe Biden.

The researchers found that many of the QAnon believers were radicalized in a very short time period, including 61% in less than a year.

A vast number of the criminal QAnon believers -- 61% -- have mental health issues, while 43% were radicalized following a traumatic event, such as premature death of a loved one, or physical, emotional, or sexual abuse.

59.  That's the number of criminals listed in the report who are male.  At least 25 of the criminals had previous records, while 16 were unemployed.


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28 May 2021, 8:31 am

A new survey reports white evangelicals, Hispanic Protestants, and members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ("Mormons") are the most likely to believe in the QAnon conspiracy theory, a trend researchers suggest correlates with the kind of media they consume.

The survey, released Thursday (2021-05-27) by the Public Religion Research Institute, focused on the widely discredited QAnon conspiracy theory, which posits Satan-worshipping pedophiles are plotting against former President Donald Trump and a coming "Storm" will soon cast out those evil forces from positions of power.


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29 May 2021, 3:44 pm

Fnord wrote:
A new survey reports white evangelicals, Hispanic Protestants, and members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ("Mormons") are the most likely to believe in the QAnon conspiracy theory, a trend researchers suggest correlates with the kind of media they consume.

The survey, released Thursday (2021-05-27) by the Public Religion Research Institute, focused on the widely discredited QAnon conspiracy theory, which posits Satan-worshipping pedophiles are plotting against former President Donald Trump and a coming "Storm" will soon cast out those evil forces from positions of power.


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Their theories are all projection. They hide their own evil by pointing everywhere else. Typical narcissist gaslighting behavior.



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29 May 2021, 5:15 pm



Well, that's disappointing (but not surprising).


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29 May 2021, 5:38 pm

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Well, that's disappointing (but not surprising).


"patriots" They're making me hate that word more and more...

Also, the Satan worshipping pedophiles are all in the Republican party.



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29 May 2021, 8:35 pm

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They hide their own evil by pointing everywhere else.


Strangely seems to also be the modus operandi of right wing podcasters.
1. Sing the benefits of small government
2, blame everything on progressives and the woke
3. Attack minorities

Now, here's a snap quiz, in which era and which country did 1-3 get a little out of control



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30 May 2021, 12:49 am

cyberdad wrote:
NoClearMind53 wrote:
They hide their own evil by pointing everywhere else.


Strangely seems to also be the modus operandi of right wing podcasters.
1. Sing the benefits of small government
2, blame everything on progressives and the woke
3. Attack minorities

Now, here's a snap quiz, in which era and which country did 1-3 get a little out of control

1.) The "small government" thing is pretty unique to the US. It's pretty bizarre for a country that is effectively running a global empire to push it though.

2.) "woke" culture is a problem to the degree it has been co-opted by corporations and used as a stick that divides working class people.



3.) It seems like a very small minority that will go so far as to attack minorities. There is a weird exaggerated grievance mentality though that is scary and irrational. The obsession that "masculinity" is under attack looks a little fascist to me... especially when they pick a disgusting sociopathic senior-citizen man-child as their model "masculine leader".



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30 May 2021, 3:35 am

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1.) The "small government" thing is pretty unique to the US. It's pretty bizarre for a country that is effectively running a global empire to push it though.


Neo-liberal capitalists all over the western world want small government and lower taxes. Trickle down theory posits that if you allow billionaires to keep their taxes they will create more jobs so reduce the need for welfare and large government. Of course in the real world that doesn't work. The middle class get poorer and rich get richer and the poor stay poor.

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30 May 2021, 10:11 pm

Fnord wrote:
After President Joe Biden was legally inaugurated on January 20, and the QAnon community's big day obviously never came, many followers lost faith and the anonymous Q poster went silent.

Haven't you heard? They're simply going to reinstate him.

They'd better hurry, because at the moment, he has an estimated 99% chance of going to prison.


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30 May 2021, 10:21 pm

SabbraCadabra wrote:
Fnord wrote:
After President Joe Biden was legally inaugurated on January 20, and the QAnon community's big day obviously never came, many followers lost faith and the anonymous Q poster went silent.

Haven't you heard? They're simply going to reinstate him.

They'd better hurry, because at the moment, he has an estimated 99% chance of going to prison.


That's just what the people with the space lasers use the lamestream media to brainwash you to think. If you ignore reality and focus on what the qult is saying you'll finally see reality. 8)


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