hbtheduce said:
BMX Bandit said:
A. The poster mentioned 99% of the world. Your response was that lots of people looking at the thread made Q relevant.
People from last administration will be arrested. That won't mean Q was "right". Hillary was detained 2 years ago per Q
Cool, I thought he was being hyperbolic. Seeing how Q targets American Republican voters, the fact its popular on here is relevant. Is it more important than Tucker Carlson, or Joe Rogan? No. But its narrative is well known among trump supporters.
I'm not claiming Q is right. I'm claiming is propaganda and persuasion and its narrative has had an effect on the discourse of the mainstream right (see Mueller thread).
Sorry, didn't realize people were responding to my post. When I said you're living on a different planet from 99% of people, I didn't mean that 99% of Americans have never heard of Q, I meant that far fewer than 1% of Americans pay active attention to Q, and that <1% does not consist of influencers. For the >99%, the assertion that Q is guiding the zeitgeist is difficult to take seriously.
Yes, a handful of people on the political message board of a college sports forum have been F5ing that thread for months. That doesn't mean it's broadly influential; even here, the people who are most wrapped up in it are not our most influential posters.
Q is doing a pretty standard fortune telling routine. Its easy to get wrapped up in that, it plays to our psychological blind spots (pattern seeking, dopamine hits from the incremental reward of "solving" puzzles, confirmation bias, and the elitist feeling of having access to privileged information). That makes it difficult for them to see that they aren't finding out anything before the rest of us. Because they think that Q is a step ahead of everyone else, they can think that Q is guiding the narrative rather than being carried along with everyone else. This is incorrect, but its very hard for people to step back and see that they AREN'T special once they've seized on an idea like this.
