My frustration with the moral panic around Qanon is that I think the conspiracist movement is demand driven, not the result of a uniquely potent and toxic ideology. Qanon is an incoherent hash, but people are hungry for structure and hidden meaning
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I do kind of admire the way Q has bootstrapped itself into reality by provoking a very real elite crackdown against its most preposterous claims. This crackdown then makes the fantasy struggle real. It's like if D&D players conjured up an actual dragon by calling each other pedos
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But can you call QAnon's growth fully "organic" when -- at least in Facebook's case -- it was aided through recommendation algorithms?
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Yeah, excellent point. It's like throwing gasoline on a wildfire. Luckily the whole problem can be solved by removing the common factor—Facebook
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Organic social movements are local.
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I try to imagine what motivates the Q instigators if they are not foreign disinformation operators. They couldn't possibly believe their own bullshit, could they? Are they just cackling at the havoc they cause? Are they independent Trump supporters just trying to help their guy?
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It's like running a greenhouse: you can grow lots of different plants, but at some point you need to yank out the weeds by the roots. You might even have to let them get a bit bigger so you can see what they are.
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