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mia

(8,360 posts)
Mon Mar 18, 2019, 08:18 PM Mar 2019

New Zealand shooter, QAnon fans get their radicalization from the exact same place

According to initial reports, the accused Christchurch shooter had no link to QAnon, the supposed plot by Donald Trump to sweep up the deep state in military tribunals. And the 77-page manifesto that he uploaded to 8chan shortly before allegedly going on his killing spree makes no direct mention of QAnon.

But the anarchic image board, where QAnon drops are made, was also the likely source for the shooter’s radicalization. Its rapid-fire mix of memes, conspiracy theories, incomprehensible internet references, and racism are the same brew that QAnon is made of. So even though there’s no evidence that the shooter is a Q believer, the radical anti-immigrant rhetoric of the shooter matches up perfectly with the fascistic beliefs of QAnon.

For one thing, the manifesto is strikingly similar to the recently published QAnon book in its tone and style, as both are full of long rambling digressions and personal grievances, often backed up by Wikipedia citations.

The manifesto also makes frequent mentions of sex abuse and of using memes to get out its writer’s racist message—both critical components of QAnon. And this wasn’t lost on the most prolific Q “bakers” who decode the messages....


https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/qanon-new-zealand-shooting-8chan/


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New Zealand shooter, QAnon fans get their radicalization from the exact same place (Original Post) mia Mar 2019 OP
Plane crashes and ..... of course.... Podesta pizzagate underpants Mar 2019 #1
There's QAnon billboard on I-75N between Marietta, GA & Dalton, GA. CottonBear Mar 2019 #2

underpants

(182,772 posts)
1. Plane crashes and ..... of course.... Podesta pizzagate
Mon Mar 18, 2019, 08:30 PM
Mar 2019

Q believers claimed the shooter was “too invested” in American politics for being an Australian, that there was some link to the 737 crash in Ethiopia because there are “no coincidences,” that there’s a sinister link to Pizzagate enemy No. 1 John Podesta visiting New Zealand a few days before the attack (he spoke at a conference in a different city), and that it’s a sign of deep state “panic” at what’s to come.

CottonBear

(21,596 posts)
2. There's QAnon billboard on I-75N between Marietta, GA & Dalton, GA.
Mon Mar 18, 2019, 09:08 PM
Mar 2019

There’s also an enormous Confederate flag flying on a really tall flagpole on a hillside along the northbound side and a Brian Kemp billboard on the southbound side along same stretch of the I-75 Interstate.

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