Qanon has some really creative lore. Like JFK Jr faking his own death and having plastic surgery to avoid being assassinated like his dad, only to come back and help Trump defeat the deep state.

[–] LocalOaf@hexbear.net 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's genuinely really fascinating sociologically sometimes. I'm pretty sure the JFK Jr shit wasn't ever actually in any Q drops, but a community of lead addled boomers giving themselves psychosis through unrestricted internet illiteracy basically played the telephone game long enough to construct their own orthodoxy where JFK's failson that ran George magazine and died in a plane crash becomes a messianic figure that's gonna reveal himself to President Hamburgler and usher in a new golden age with magic sci-fi med beds or whatever.

I can't remember if it was an episode of Death is Just Around the Corner or a stream they did together, but Michael S Judge talked with partiotism at some point about Q-Anon as the latest iteration in a historical cycle of American religious revivalist movements and esoteric mysticism and conspiratorial political fringes, and they got into the symbolism that Q followers have unconsciously tapped into and similar historical parallels that was really fascinating, I'll see if I can find it

[–] Riffraffintheroom@hexbear.net 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The first being when they gathered in western New York for the end of the world and then it didn’t happen and then they splintered into Mormonism and all those other sects, right? What would the others be, the 1960s orientalist takes on Hare Krishna and Buddhism?

[–] LocalOaf@hexbear.net 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Found it! It's been like three years since I listened to it so I don't recall the specifics, but remember it being really interesting. Judge and Christman, two great tastes that taste great together matt-grillin

[–] Riffraffintheroom@hexbear.net 2 points 3 months ago

Thanks!