The power of Q seemed to be the horoscope-like, vague "drops" would make thousands of Q researchers come up with theories to explain what was essentially nonsense. When one, inevitably, approximated an eventual world event, they would be elevated to the foreground.
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Thus while predicting nothing, the Q army then created enough random predictions that like a thousand monkeys chained to typewriters, eventually they came up with something that looked like a prediction come true just by chance. For the researcher it was like winning the lottery.
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They got attention and reputation in the community, Q appears to have said something that was predictive, and the system fed back on itself in a recursive loop, with more people trying to win big on interpreting the horoscopes.
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The documentarian accomplished an amazing feat of being in the right time and place to capture them in the act. And again, it's hard to watch because they are just all the worst people in the world. Conspiracy theorists are hard to watch.
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And the great flaw in the documentary is there is no attempt to correct the record in real time, they are allowed to lie and dissemble without any kind of narrative correction, risking the spread of further disinfo. But for understanding what Q is, and it's power...
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It's a real lesson in basically crowdsourcing conspiracy and weaponizing human confirmation bias. It was like doing a John Edward style "Crossing Over" cold read on the whole internet. Really just an amazing feat of grifting and disinformation.
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