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French child kidnap plot shows global sway of QAnon style
One of the most frustrating things about the vast majority of mainstream media reporting on Q-Anon is the liberal establishment’s general inability to accept the movement for what it is – a fascist conspiracy cult that has gone completely global. More specifically, it’s a globalized fascist conspiracy cult that works by blending all the other reactionary conspiracy theories into one, and then conveniently aligning believers with far right, objectively fascist politicians, parties, and political organizations.
The fact is that while believers in the cult may not always perceive themselves as acting politically, the conductors marshalling the cult are explicitly political in nature. Therefore, it does no good to approach Q-Anon as a grift, because it literally doesn’t matter if the freaks pushing these conspiracies into the mainstream are true believers or not. What matters is that they’re able to draw on a massive, preexisting undercurrent of people motivated by anger, reaction, and bugsh*t conspiracy writings, and then point those people at the enemies of the would-be fascist order. In some ways this makes Q-Anon almost something of a “rent-a-mob” organization, to be summoned and deployed by more organized fascists – both in politics and in the streets.
Of course, linking and empowering these folks has a cost, usually paid in crime, violence, and sometimes human lives, but generally it’s not the rich nazis paying it, so they don’t care. Indeed, one might argue that the blowback produced by the Q-Anon cult in and of itself works towards the fascist goal of destabilizing our faux liberal-democratic order, and creating the demand for a more authoritarian form of government. The chaos is a feature, not a bug.
nina illingworth
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