It's huge among the boomer crowd and the more conspiratorial minded right-wingers. It's not unfair to say that it's almost cult-like, although in a weird decentralized way. It showed up on 4chan in late 2017 and then spread to 8chan where it really took off. 1/?
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It's definitely the result of the internet allowing anonymous and near anonymous posts/prophecies/puzzles to occupy the minds of frustrated and restless individuals who feel disenfranchised by modern politics. A anon once described it as "boomer crack" and I think that's fair 2/?
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In my opinion.. It was nothing but mob mentality violence, people in large groups get excited and act irrationally.. not dissimilar to the Antifa/Leftist protests we saw over the last several months.
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seems fairly straightforward to me if we understand people truly believe that the election was stolen 1. people show up 2. way too many people show up 3. capitol police told to deescalate following previous protests 4. vanguard pushes; rearguard on self-guided tour
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The zeroth step is the hard one, I think. Neither side seems willing to accept that the people on the other side believe what they claim to believe.
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This is a great explainer from one of my favourite podcasts:https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000lf1t …
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People are bored and looking for something to cling on to as an escape from the life they can’t deal with. If people want Real change, they will start from within themselves.
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I’d add ‘disappointed’ and ‘frustrated’ to this. The world is burning (in various ways), and we’re not doing anything about it. Humans need missions.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anomie
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If someone could explain it for europeans in an understandable way, we would be grateful. It looks like it is a perfect storm: Trump thinks his bullying/salesman practice is going to work, lunatics can coordinate together via internet, a widening fracture between MSM and people..
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There's a few elements you're missing, namely Trump explicitly told white supremacist they were "very fine people" and "you're special and I love you" when caused mayhem, death, and destruction, while he was willing to use violence to oppress any left-leaning protest. 1/...
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