But I'll stand by what I've said without debate for now, EXCEPT for the fact that I'm looking for dopamine hits. Because that would imply that I am emotionally invested in seeing the Q movement fall apart.
Like I've said before, I'm not here to prove you guys wrong. I am here to figure out how we can both look at exactly the same thing and come to wildly different conclusions. It seems pretty obvious to me (and probably you) that "proof" can only come from time, either for the Plan to work, or for you to realize there is no Plan.
If I am wrong, then I lose nothing and get smarter as a result. If I am right, I gain nothing and move on to the next thing, I guess. I stand to gain and lose absolutely nothing for my views here.
So, unfortunately, I have to figure out other outlets for my dopamine adventures than Q people.
EDIT: Also, I have absolutely no loyalty to Reddit as a platform. If they're hosting child porn, then they should get hit hard for it. But I've been hanging out with Q people since you guys were still on 8chan, and except for pre-8chan 4chan, no non-dark site comes close to the amount of random, anonymous posting of child porn that 8chan had. There's a reason that I bring that up as a weird place for Q to decide to find an audience.
The point I'm making about 8chan is that is exclusively where Q decided to recruit members for an anti-pedophile organization. On a site which really only existed because 4chan, a site also notorious for child pornography, started coming down on stuff like that and was labeled as too restrictive.
I remember, because I was on 4chan when 8chan was created (r9k, ftw). I started following stuff on 8chan exclusively when Q started to become a thing.
It just boggles the mind how a high level military or intelligence operative would see a website like that and say, "Sure, that seems like a good place to anonymously recruit for my army of digital anti-pedophile soldiers. This is the place where I'll commence a Great Awakening. The place where the pedophiles hang out."
Not 4chan, which was basically the same thing except with less child porn. Not creating their own server which could serve the same free-speech anonymity. Nope, just use a site which did poorly everything 4chan did except the criminal part.
That just is a very weird place for Q to find attractive. There were so, so many better options for him if he had the resources he must have had. Hell, I had better resources, and I was definitely not a high level government official.
Like I said, I'm not defending Reddit's admins. As far as I know, the sub in which I have power has never had a problem with child pornography. I can't do anything about the porn subs, as I am not a moderator on any of them.
But Reddit's problems with failing to stop revenge porn, child porn, and other stuff doesn't in any way counter the problem that Q's entire origin story doesn't make sense. Not why he was on 8chan. Not why he decided that a site full of child predators would be a good place to recruit his believers. None of it. It's never made sense to me.
I mean, if your biggest issue is why Q chose 4chan as the place to drop crumbs, then the outcomes seem to answer the question for you. The message spread like wildfire, and is still culturally relevant today as a result of that choice.
I think you would agree that IF there is a Cabal, then they likely control most mass communications networks.
That significantly cuts down the pool of potential places where Q might be able to safely operate, especially early in the operation. It would assume that once its messages began to proliferate, it would be resisted by those it was trying to expose. (I use "it", because we don't know how many people Q consists of.)
So, that leaves only places that exist in the dark corners of the internet. Places with enough traffic so that it might gain traction, but yet also places which weren't controlled by the opposition and which held freedom of speech and anonymity as being of utmost importance. Finally, you'd want a place where the people are wary of authority and likely to take seriously comments critical of the establishment power structures.
4chan was one of those places, and became even moreso in the leadup to the 2016 election as Trump supporters, memesters, and trolls began being censored off of other social networks and sought refuge there (Q first appeared in 2017). Also, if 4chan was the kind of place where child porn was commonly encountered (I never used it, so I am taking you at your word on that), then it would be the kind of place where people would likely BELIEVE that child trafficking networks exist. Just because a small percentage of people in a forum participate in an unsavory activity doesn't mean that most people in that forum wouldn't oppose that kind of activity. And the results speak for themselves; Q began on just such a forum as you've described, and yet has proliferated and grown into a movement of millions of supporters who vehemently oppose sex trafficking.
So, if your concern is that you wouldn't have predicted it to happen, and yet it happened, that only means you don't understand the complex system well enough to have predicted it, not that it COULDN'T have possibly been predicted.
Ugh, the text is SO TINY. :)
But I'll stand by what I've said without debate for now, EXCEPT for the fact that I'm looking for dopamine hits. Because that would imply that I am emotionally invested in seeing the Q movement fall apart.
Like I've said before, I'm not here to prove you guys wrong. I am here to figure out how we can both look at exactly the same thing and come to wildly different conclusions. It seems pretty obvious to me (and probably you) that "proof" can only come from time, either for the Plan to work, or for you to realize there is no Plan.
If I am wrong, then I lose nothing and get smarter as a result. If I am right, I gain nothing and move on to the next thing, I guess. I stand to gain and lose absolutely nothing for my views here.
So, unfortunately, I have to figure out other outlets for my dopamine adventures than Q people.
EDIT: Also, I have absolutely no loyalty to Reddit as a platform. If they're hosting child porn, then they should get hit hard for it. But I've been hanging out with Q people since you guys were still on 8chan, and except for pre-8chan 4chan, no non-dark site comes close to the amount of random, anonymous posting of child porn that 8chan had. There's a reason that I bring that up as a weird place for Q to decide to find an audience.
Eh, no?
The point I'm making about 8chan is that is exclusively where Q decided to recruit members for an anti-pedophile organization. On a site which really only existed because 4chan, a site also notorious for child pornography, started coming down on stuff like that and was labeled as too restrictive.
I remember, because I was on 4chan when 8chan was created (r9k, ftw). I started following stuff on 8chan exclusively when Q started to become a thing.
It just boggles the mind how a high level military or intelligence operative would see a website like that and say, "Sure, that seems like a good place to anonymously recruit for my army of digital anti-pedophile soldiers. This is the place where I'll commence a Great Awakening. The place where the pedophiles hang out."
Not 4chan, which was basically the same thing except with less child porn. Not creating their own server which could serve the same free-speech anonymity. Nope, just use a site which did poorly everything 4chan did except the criminal part.
That just is a very weird place for Q to find attractive. There were so, so many better options for him if he had the resources he must have had. Hell, I had better resources, and I was definitely not a high level government official.
Like I said, I'm not defending Reddit's admins. As far as I know, the sub in which I have power has never had a problem with child pornography. I can't do anything about the porn subs, as I am not a moderator on any of them.
But Reddit's problems with failing to stop revenge porn, child porn, and other stuff doesn't in any way counter the problem that Q's entire origin story doesn't make sense. Not why he was on 8chan. Not why he decided that a site full of child predators would be a good place to recruit his believers. None of it. It's never made sense to me.
I mean, if your biggest issue is why Q chose 4chan as the place to drop crumbs, then the outcomes seem to answer the question for you. The message spread like wildfire, and is still culturally relevant today as a result of that choice.
I think you would agree that IF there is a Cabal, then they likely control most mass communications networks.
That significantly cuts down the pool of potential places where Q might be able to safely operate, especially early in the operation. It would assume that once its messages began to proliferate, it would be resisted by those it was trying to expose. (I use "it", because we don't know how many people Q consists of.)
So, that leaves only places that exist in the dark corners of the internet. Places with enough traffic so that it might gain traction, but yet also places which weren't controlled by the opposition and which held freedom of speech and anonymity as being of utmost importance. Finally, you'd want a place where the people are wary of authority and likely to take seriously comments critical of the establishment power structures.
4chan was one of those places, and became even moreso in the leadup to the 2016 election as Trump supporters, memesters, and trolls began being censored off of other social networks and sought refuge there (Q first appeared in 2017). Also, if 4chan was the kind of place where child porn was commonly encountered (I never used it, so I am taking you at your word on that), then it would be the kind of place where people would likely BELIEVE that child trafficking networks exist. Just because a small percentage of people in a forum participate in an unsavory activity doesn't mean that most people in that forum wouldn't oppose that kind of activity. And the results speak for themselves; Q began on just such a forum as you've described, and yet has proliferated and grown into a movement of millions of supporters who vehemently oppose sex trafficking.
So, if your concern is that you wouldn't have predicted it to happen, and yet it happened, that only means you don't understand the complex system well enough to have predicted it, not that it COULDN'T have possibly been predicted.