It’s the funniest possible sequence of events, and no one wouldve seen it coming

What does that even look like for the culture of the US lol

  • LocalOaf [they/them, ze/hir]@hexbear.net
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    4 months ago

    Off the top of my head, there was a sub-sect that thought he was Steve Bannon as a time traveler(?) advising Donald Trump how to do the Great Awakening right, and one where Barron was secretly the greatest chess player in the world and had been made the youngest grandmaster ever secretly for some reason

    • LanyrdSkynrd [comrade/them, any]@hexbear.net
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      4 months ago

      Qanon has some really creative lore. Like JFK Jr faking his own death and having plastic surgery to avoid being assassinated like his dad, only to come back and help Trump defeat the deep state.

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        It’s genuinely really fascinating sociologically sometimes. I’m pretty sure the JFK Jr shit wasn’t ever actually in any Q drops, but a community of lead addled boomers giving themselves psychosis through unrestricted internet illiteracy basically played the telephone game long enough to construct their own orthodoxy where JFK’s failson that ran George magazine and died in a plane crash becomes a messianic figure that’s gonna reveal himself to President Hamburgler and usher in a new golden age with magic sci-fi med beds or whatever.

        I can’t remember if it was an episode of Death is Just Around the Corner or a stream they did together, but Michael S Judge talked with partiotism at some point about Q-Anon as the latest iteration in a historical cycle of American religious revivalist movements and esoteric mysticism and conspiratorial political fringes, and they got into the symbolism that Q followers have unconsciously tapped into and similar historical parallels that was really fascinating, I’ll see if I can find it