The evolution of this single book really says a lot about QAnon
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As suspected, all references to Q have been removed from the latest edition
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"Thank you to the entire Q Army... thank you the 8-chan Anons who do battle" has been replaced by "Thank you to all the patriots everywhere... thank you to those who do battle"
This is like reading a Creationist textbook edited into an Intelligent Design textbook.
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This is not the first time it's been observed that QAnon is basically a reskinned (some would say secularized) Christian apocalypse cult
However, by stripping Q back out again, it returns to its roots
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But for QAnon, which is a movement already deeply cross-pollinated with evangelical Christians, let's talk about The Storm and The Rapture.
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If you missed it, I dove into the first edition of this incredible book back in 2019, and I absolutely will be diving into this latest edition as well.
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QAnon and the Battle of Armageddon has arrived.
It's a day late, so Amazon and Q are clearly on the same page as far as predictions.
This will take some time, and is sure to be a long, meandering thread, but I have a three starting thoughts for today before I dive in.
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The takeaway so far is that the 1st edition is a believer presenting Q as she truly sees it, the 2nd edition is pandemic rebranding, keeping the violent fantasies in the text but softening them on the cover, and the 3rd is in response to Q telling followers to stop saying QAnon
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Great question! There's been an evolution on that over the three editions as well
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I said it before and I'll say it again: a lot of really strong "cdesign proponentsists" vibes in the third edition
(if you don't know the story of 'Of Pandas and People,' do yourself a favor and check it out)
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Not only did this new edition allow her to remove Q, but she could update her completely fictitious number of indictments
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It turns out when you just delete every mention of QAnon from your QAnon book, sometimes the sentences you're left with don't make much sense
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Genuinely interesting bit here: between the 1st and 3rd edition, Melissa decided that "the grievous sore" is adrenochrome withdrawal
RedpillTheWorld got redpilled herself on that one
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Whoops, I guess find/replace doesn't check images huh
Also it's a little depressing that it isn't absolutely amazing anymore
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This is another surprising editorial choice: replacing QAnon with "Trump Team"
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I can now comfortably confirm that this new edition was created expressly in response to Q commanding their followers to stop saying "QAnon" on Oct 17 2020, as evidenced by this section added for 2nd edition (Oct 2020) and then changed for 3rd edition (Jan 2021).
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I mean I'm sure this comes as a surprise to no one, but it's nice to have a kind of confirmation: changing "remember what Q told us" to "remember #3606" means this is still a text for QAnon believers, not a complete rebranding of Q belief for non-Qanon folks.
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First Edition: March 2019
Second Edition: October 2020
Third Edition: January 2021
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Replying to @dappergander and @hwiers
This is epic. Can you post the release dates of each of the three editions? Thanks.
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