The fundamental difference between Operation Trust and the Q Movement lies in their intent, origin, and operational structure:
- Intent
Operation Trust: A deliberate psychological operation created by the Soviet state to neutralize opposition by instilling a false sense of security. It aimed to pacify anti-Bolshevik groups and ensure they remained inactive.
Q Movement: A decentralized and citizen-driven movement seeking to expose corruption and alleged misconduct by powerful individuals and institutions. Its purpose is to raise awareness and inspire action among its followers.
- Origin
Operation Trust: Designed and implemented by a central authority (Soviet intelligence agencies), it was a tool of state control and deception.
Q Movement: Emerged organically through anonymous online postings attributed to an individual or group known as "Q." It spread due to grassroots engagement and growing skepticism toward traditional power structures.
- Transparency and Decentralization
Operation Trust: Operated secretly, with a centralized directive from the Soviet government. Its followers had no direct control or insight into the operation's purpose, making them unwitting tools of a larger agenda.
Q Movement: Highly decentralized, with individuals worldwide interpreting, analyzing, and acting on the information shared. Its structure is participatory, relying on the active engagement of its community members.
- Call to Action
Operation Trust: Encouraged passivity, persuading anti-Bolshevik groups that they didn’t need to act because someone else was already working to achieve their goals.
Q Movement: While it uses the phrase "Trust the Plan," its community actively engages in spreading its message, researching independently, organizing events, and participating in political and social processes to drive real-world change.
- Real-World Impact
Operation Trust: The operation succeeded in neutralizing opposition groups and securing the power of the Bolshevik regime, but it did so by misleading and rendering its targets ineffective.
Q Movement: Regardless of differing opinions on its claims, the movement has galvanized millions of people worldwide, influencing political discussions, organizing protests, and calling attention to issues such as human trafficking, government accountability, and media transparency.
Key Defense
The Q Movement fundamentally differs from Operation Trust because it is not a top-down psychological operation designed to suppress dissent. Instead, it is a bottom-up movement that empowers individuals to question authority, conduct independent research, and engage in civic and political processes. Unlike Operation Trust, which deceived people into passivity, the Q Movement mobilizes its followers into active participation and awareness, leading to tangible outcomes in various spheres of influence.
You know what other movement Q reminds me of?
The Chinese cultural revolution.
Get all the conservatives to speak up. Once they are identified, killed all of them
We are not out of the woods yet. Those sealed indictments could be for us.
Trump would have to be in on it
Yes. The Cultural Revolution had Liu Shao Qi and Deng Xiao Ping as the leader of the conservatives populists.
Mao arrested Deng and put him in prison for thirty years and starved Liu to death.
Fight fight fight…and buy BitCOIN. So every transaction can be tracked and recorded on a ledger. Pfft! No thanks.
Go ahead and downvote. I’m supporting Trump and the movement but with watchful eyes and a discerning heart. The end was told from the beginning and only a fool would deny the stage is being set.
Claiming Q’s psyop (because that’s what it is) is biblical because Q told you it was does not make it biblical. Oh, he quoted a few scriptures and gave you some cute mottos to repeat. Give me a break.
When the great deceiver approaches you, and the rest of the world with you, do you really think he comes as an enemy? Glowing red with horns and a spiked tail? Is he not the great deceiver? A Wolf in sheep’s clothing he is and unless you remain wise as vipers he’s gonna take you for a walk with his one flute marching band.
All this just to say keep your wits about you. We are at war. Don’t believe shit until you see it because words don’t equate to action. You will know them by their fruit. Hopefully the fruit continues to be sweet. It can sour at anytime though and quickly.
I'm not downvoting this. We have to consider all the possibilities. I don't think that what you describe is happening, but all alternatives should be considered.
With Big Tech, Big Data, and AI, no one is safe from being identified for being exactly who they are.
No one has to speak up at all for them to know who we are. Where does a person's phone go and what does it do each day?
Our phones track our physical location, know which websites and apps we visit and use, they listen in, they record, they track phone calls, text messages, emails, orders, and pretty much everything.
Even if someone uses a VPN or a faraday cage for their devices, when we travel our vehicles are recorded and tracked, our payments are recorded and tracked.
There is no privacy anymore. It's completely gone.
What this means to me is there is no longer an opportunity to sit down, shut up, and not let anyone know what you really think. "They" already know.
To win this battle, we must all speak up and be unafraid. We must no longer cower or wait. If Trump proved anything, it's fighting that matters. It's fighting that wins.
And the single best thing we can do in the next 4 years to ensure Trump's success is to be willing to Fight, Fight, Fight every where we go, all of the time.
u/#teflondon
This.
Dovetailing with this concern, are the dubious claims in the OP that the Q movement is "citizen driven" and "bottom up". It certainly conveys those characteristics, but I don't think anyone is convinced otherwise than that whatever entity Q is, Q is not mere citizenry, and Q is and has been the oracle-hub of the movement. So there is still a third-party trust/oracle problem that must be navigated, this is not completely decentralized.
A psy op intended to placate and effectively domesticate resistance can certainly use the resources and strategic planning to inject all the characteristics of a non-establishment, bottom up movement, without it actually being so.
Personally I will continue to keep my eyes open, follow this narrative with what I try to maintain as healthy skepticism instead of radical skepticism; that includes whether yellow or red flags start popping up that indicate folks are being shepherded towards another Jan 6 style trap.
Maybe but they didnt expect 300 million of is to speak up.