Hey I can answer this! Non Q-supporter here, I can go point by point if it helps.

Disclaimer: it's really really really really hard to talk about Q without drifting into smarmy "Good gravy, here's how you're wrong" mode, it kinda comes with the territory, so I guess: apologies in advance? I'll try my best to behave; guest in a stranger's house, and all.

If you are a Patriot, what exactly do you have against Q researchers/followers/supporters?

On a person-to-person level, not much; I've known a few hardcore conservatives in my life, different strokes for different folks, I get it. Everybody wants to make their country better.

The problem I have, I guess, is how Q followers want to do that, and why they've arrived at those extreme measures: ultra violent, ultra evangelical, shoot-first-ask-questions-later bloody vengeance, public hangings, televised humiliation, and mass executions on channel 5 with popcorn. Q followers say those measures are deserved, given the evil cabal enemy we're all facing; I think that evil cabal enemy is more invented than real (for reasons I could get into), therefore the measures seem, ya know, just a little rash, like tilting at windmills in the absolute cruelest and bloodiest way possible.

You think we've been duped--that Q is just a CIA psyop designed to pacify us and keep us from doing what we need to do to take our country back.

I personally think Q was/is a right-wing troll on the boards; someone who watches a TON of movies and knows a lot of spy/govt tropes and buzzwords, and bullshits the rest. Q drops have never really impressed me; it's too vague, too wannabe spy thriller, trying to sound in the know with lingo, references, and nonstop cryptic language for the bakers to analyze. "When does a (fish) return to the river? Think water // BO HRC ?? Evergreen. 45 drawn. You have everything you need," that kind of stuff.

Then this troll hit the absolute MFing goldmine and gained not just a following, but an entire voter base, captive in its narrative, awaiting its grand finale. A certain 45th president learns about it, or at least knows of it, and knows it's a voter base that adores him and portrays him as a hero -- so he winks at it, here and there, and the rest is history. Donald's sin is ego/pride -- biggest weakness, easiest exploit.

PS this line...

designed to pacify us and keep us from doing what we need to do to take our country back.

...is exactly what I mean, when I say I think the evil is more invented than real: that, right there, is the carefully-constructed dark cloud of endless crisis that Qanon casts over the world, and makes the normies' noninvolvement seem like such a guilty selfish cowardly sin. The enemies are everywhere and the fate of the world is on the line; why can't these zombies see it?

Have you ever heard that old joke: elderly woman calls her husband on his morning commute, says "Harold, be careful, some guy is driving the wrong way on the freeway!" The husband says "Hell, not just one, damn near all of em!" That's what comes to mind here.

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I've heard good wholesome things about The Middle.

Less time in front of the computer, more time moving around, the better.

7 Anthropogenic climate change will be a non-issue if this volcano blows

Kinda sounds like "We'll catch all the mice by releasing snakes into the city!"

Larry was trafficking ballots but then he was mugged for $10,000 and put a bounty on the dipshit who sent em.

From Snopes, but it checks out:

In fact, he reportedly owns more farmland than any other individual in America. According to 2021 article from the Land Report, a magazine about land ownership, Gates owns approximately 242,000 acres of farmland. While this is certainly a lot of acreage, it represents less than 1% of all the farmland in the United States.

For an SBO? Bro needs an NG tube down his throat sucking out the blockage from behind, sounds like that's what he's getting.

Source: had an SBO once, not fun.

Correct, Elon's deal won't go through for months, he doesn't own anything yet.

I believe that's called the cycle of poverty?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycle_of_poverty

"ONE OF THE ONLY VOICES WHO TRULY CARES ABOUT YOU"

Hate to say it, but that is some real manipulative stuff, careful there. This is dripping with ego.

That's why I combine the two -- every year, I light up a joint and invade Poland.

March 2021?

Ayyy that's Dylan Baker, cool character actor, shows up in tons of stuff.

Yep it's fake

This bit of animation was created on the B3Ta Board (an Internet forum that frequently features photoshopped images) in March 2011.

The characters in this GIF are all featured in the 1928 Disney cartoon short Steamboat Willie, which does not contain a scene set in a cheese factory. It appears that B3ta user Drimble took images from Steamboat Willie and then added his own animations on top of the original frames. For instance, Mickey Mouse’s hip movements are found around the 35-second mark of Steamboat Willie.

Context from that link:

Authorities have arrested 108 people, including alleged child sexual predators and those seeking prostitutes, in a six-day undercover human trafficking operation in Florida. Among those taken into custody were four Disney employees and a retired judge, police said.

I don't know Brian Cates, but he seems to be trying to distance himself from Mike Lindell, which gives me pause.

Cates is also throwing cold water on Jack Maxey and devolution, so it's hard to tell where he stands.

Context:

In 1994, Biden received a death threat in a letter postmarked from Worcester, Mass., that prompted an FBI investigation. "Dear Sen. Biden: You are a traitor …," the letter said, according to the FBI records. It was signed, "John F. Kennedy Jr."

But the case was eventually closed with no suspects identified, according to the records. "The FBI dismissed it as a hoax," said Steven M. Gillon, professor of history at the University of Oklahoma and author of a recent biography about Kennedy, adding that the FBI chose not to pursue the letter "because they did not believe that John wrote it."

Counterpoint:

"A theory is not to be considered complete until you have made it so clear that you can explain it to the first man whom you meet on the street." -Albert Einstein (attributed)

I too only watch shows with the word "survivor" in the title, I find it really limits my options.

I heard a while back that Bruce loves loves loves the actual on-set process of making movies, but hates hates hates the press junkets, media blitz, pomp and circumstance, etc. So he takes all sorts of B roles that don't make a big splash.

Not to be accusatory, but that is one helluva sketchy site.

Her messages very much read like someone on the "hoping" side of things, not the "doing" side of things -- lots of "I hope this" and "Have you heard this".

Can you explain Do You Like Our Owl? That kinda throws me off.

I appreciate the 10 or so banding together to form the apostrophe in BIDEN'S, that's important.

Anyone who says they know what tomorrow will bring is either lying, profiting from it, or both. I use that as a guiding philosophy and take life as it comes, in all its chaos.