I realize this is 11 hours in and 95 posts deep, so you may or may not read this. You have asked a big question and unfortunately, it requires a big answer, though I'll try to be concise. Do excuse the formatting. I've got limited tools to try and make this more readable.

Who is Q?

You know this already. Q is a small group of >10 individuals. Their identities are unknown, and if things go to plan, will never be known. Q+ is widely suspected to be Donald Trump based on his "air Qs" gestures during rallies and an autograph signed Q+ one time. The others are high ranking, likely older people with experience in computers/hacking, communication/marketing, and psychological warfare. They're people who can craft a message to capture hearts and minds and people who can deliver that message effectively.

What is their mission/"the Plan"?

The plan is to use techniques designed for color revolutions to affect a similar political change in our country. The enemy is the "cabal." It is constituted of politicians and bureaucrats from both parties who hold positions of power such that they effectively control every major lever of power in this country from public policy to science, healthcare, economics, land management, etc. These people are united in that they have been corrupted/bought out/controlled by an oligarchy of some 100-400 of the wealthiest families on the planet who use them to execute a controlled demolition of the United States in order to render it submissive to a global communist state that these same people intend to control in the same way (from the shadows). The goal is to replace them with the citizen government our founding fathers envisioned.

How the hell do they plan to do this?

The tactics are those of a color revolution. Use "influence operations" in which secret truths are revealed and/or false, but helpful information is disseminated. For ethical reasons, I think the Q team avoid disinformation (lies) directed at We the People. It would undermine our trust in them anyway. They do, however, utilize lies against the enemy to distract, mislead, or confuse them. The idea is that by revealing to Americans that they have already been conquered and subverted by this cabal, that they will "wake up," and resume our responsibility to govern ourselves.

We tend to focus on the ~5,000 Q posts made on 4chan, but the operation was much wider than that and included leaks to major media outlets, and more "forward-facing" organizations, particularly including social media, new media, alternative media. Twitter won Trump the 2016 election. Blogs, forums, social media memes, and podcasts won him 2020 and will win him 2024 as well. It's a very wide organization with "assets" all over the major media.

Why has Q not posted in [x] time?

Q's done. Q was a Trump era operation. When Trump left, Q was wrapped up and made to disappear for fear of retaliation. Remember who controls all the levers of power. The ghosts who comprised Q vanished into the ether. Those people are still deeply committed, angry as hell, but know they must hide for the rest of their lives. If we ever hear from them, we'll have no idea it is they who are speaking to us. Q is now a history lesson, not an active operation. Post-2020, the new strategy is to utilize those who Q successfully awakened and created as assets to take their own roles in waking people up. Every time you watch Tucker Carlson lay out truth you literally would never hear elsewhere, every time you watch Crowder's "change my mind" or Charlie Kirk and Candace Owens go viral yet again with simple, honest conversation, every time a new meme like GME or Outlaw Trump or dozens of others crops up, this is the continuation of the effort. It's not Q anymore. It's bigger, broader, and you can step up right now yourself to be a part of it in whatever manner suits your talents and commitment. That's all that's being asked of any of us.

The key here is that We the People are the cavalry who are riding to the rescue. It's us. All of us. Any American patriot who wants his country back, who wants to fight for those wonderful ideals we were all taught in school or on our citizenship exams for naturalization.

Do you belong here/want to be here?

Yes, you belong, but only you can answer if you want to be here. For me, I find that much of what gets posted here is bull. Like with all media, I look for the signal amidst the noise, and occasionally hear that here. I define that as some fact or truth which is useful and which I can't find elsewhere. I have extremely demanding standards for evidence because when I discuss politics with people, I'm expected to show the same professionalism and careful thought I do in my line of work. I sometimes find data I can't find elsewhere here, so I keep coming back. I get frustrated with the "low energy/low effort" stuff, chasing Twitter feeds, the paytriots who just link their own content on sketchy clickbait websites, etc. You have to recognize a lot of that in enemy efforts and much of it's AI-generated at this point. No point in arguing against it. Ignore and move on.

It's up to you to find your own reasons to stay or not. As with all things Q, it's up to you to use discernment and make up your own mind as a free human being. I wish you nothing but the best, fren, from a fellow patriot.