Symbolism will be their downfall.
What if this isn't a statement from Q about the implied arrogance of the Cabal, but something more literal? What if it literally means Symbolism is an inferior tool in this war, and that is why they will lose?
Think about 9/11... I'm sure it wasn't about the billions of dollars made in everything from various insurance claims to outright money laundering of tax funding, etc. Sure, they made some bucks, but it's just a drop in their bucket. Maybe it wasn't just about the huge strides foreword they were able to make towards control, oversight, and surveillance with the weaponisation of everything from the FBI and DOJ, the Patriot Act, even the TSA for gosh sakes. That has been much more useful to them in carrying out their will than any amount of money could be. You just can't buy something like that.
But what if all that was just icing on the cake? Every American citizen alive on that day and possibly billions of other people around the world were affected by what happened that day. Every American remembers where they were when they heard. It was on every news station, every radio station, in every newspaper (and who runs all that). It reached everyone alive. It wasn't just a literal world event, it was a massive notch into humanity itself. It was BIG. Big like WWII, big like the printing press, big like the fall of Rome. It changed US, humanity, collectively... Unconsciously.
What if THAT was the point? Symbolism. What if all that news/radio/paper coverage was just about that? Nudging the collective subliminal conscious of humanity in a direction of their choosing? And what if they don't do that because they want to, what if they do it because they HAVE to? What if those are their rules? Their version of mass conversion? We all changed that day. Maybe thats what they were after? Maybe that's why memes are so powerful for us and so maddening to them. It's literally HERESY! It undoes all their work and worship? It corrupts their "followers" (normies). Anyways just a thought.