I want a hammer-and-sickle Q graphic.
I will be honestly surprised if it doesn't tie back to SomethingAwful at some point. It's got all their fingerprints. I think they backed off once it was no longer funny, though. It has a life of its own now.
I'm actually interested in the 3rd tier of the Q hierarchy. The first one was a typical 4Chan/SomethingAwful/8Chan poster. They got tired of trying to keep it up, and a someone else stepped in and took over. I'm pretty sure even that person is gone now, and there is a small group - maybe 5-8 people - who are Q now, and coordinate their efforts. THOSE are the ones I want to know about. Because these are the ones that are monetizing it, inviting in the Russians, and really wanting to spin this thing as big as they can make it. And then there will be a Timothy McVeigh, inspired by Q. That's when the FBI and CIA will pull all the threads they are holding, and the entire sweater will unravel. A group of (white, male, 18-30 year old) geeks will sit in the dock and be sentenced to decades each. Anyone with more than 3 brain cells can see this is all bullshit. And when it all comes crashing down, it will be fun to see who the "Truthers" are, who stick with it, and wind the whole court case into their delusion...
Naaah I'm pretty sure it's a full-fledged psyop at this point. The trolls and prankers never get beyond lulz. The lulziness of Qanon dissipated long ago and there have been no further attempts at humor. I mean, NBC can tell you where it started.And then there will be a Timothy McVeigh, inspired by Q.
I think you don't understand Tim McVeigh. The basic narrative of the radical right was accurate: Randy Weaver had been entrapped by federal agents, who then responded with overwhelming force. David Koresh had been entrapped by federal agents, who then responded with overwhelming force. The same team responded to both crises - The same asshole shot first at both sites. The spiritual successor to Tim McVeigh are the Bundys, not QAnon. You could argue that the thriving right-wing militia movement is an outgrowth of the kid gloves they were treated with after the Oklahoma City Bombing, in which a Marines vet, partially radicalized by fiction and further radicalized by current events, committed a terrorist act against the government as reprisal for what he saw as overreach against American citizens. You cannot argue that Tim McVeigh was a lunatic. QAnon requires lunacy. The persistent belief that Hilary Clinton gets infusions of the blood of children and that President Trump is leading a secret crusade against the Deep State requires a credulity that hinders planning. Stephen Paddock? Yeah I could see that. Charles Whitman? These atrocities are within the reach of the QKluxKlan. But Dzokar Tsarniev demonstrated a greater ability to plan and execute than QAnon calls for: remember, they've got a leader doing shit in secret and they hang on his every word. It's a passive cult, not an active one. It argues for accepting fascism and cheering it on, not striking out on your own. Even within Pizzagate there was no "zomg go rescue the children" call to action; Idiot with the assault rifle was literally spoiling the fun by "investigating" the craziness.