Opinion | The Next QAnon Think Piece Should be Based on One of My Threads https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/04/opinion/qanon-conspiracy-theory-arg.html#click=https://t.co/ZWyNYoBBW6

QAnon is a fucking cult. It is a theopolitical millenarianist death cult that happens to be internet based.

It is parasocial cultic fuckery. It is bacon wrapped Protocols and Blood Libel™ for an older generation, healing crystal woo ass aunties, and Ancient Aliens fans.

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QAnon is a conspiracy theory katamari ball. The anti-semitic conspiracy theories that make up the crux of QAnon's cultic belief system essentially make the movement at large resemble an extremely online Posse Comitatus or whitewashed Aum Shinrikyo.

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Writing QAnon off, dismissing it outright because of its origins and user demos was a mistake 2 years ago and it is a mistake now.

QAnon is not even the first example of an online, parasocial cultic group.

For more info look into NESARA/GESARA or Galactic Federation.

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QAnon's inherently anti-semitic, conspiracy theory centric premise invites comparisons to the way Christian Identity simultaneously thrived in and united militia groups, tax protestor groups, and neo nazi groups in the 80s and 90s until OKC fractured the militia movement.

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If Christian Identity in the radical right is a cultic perspective, then a fitting cultural perspective would be the John Birch Society's impact on postwar American society.

JBS peddled in the same sort of conspiracy theories. George Lincoln Rockwell was famously a fan.

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