QAnon Woke Up the Real Deep State

[nsd]

To the QAnon community, and others involved in storming the Capitol:

The Deep State is real, but it’s not what you think. The Deep State you worry about is mostly made up; a fiction, a lie, a product of active imaginations, grifter manipulations, and the internet. I’m telling you this now because storming the Capitol building has drawn the attention of the real Deep State — the national security bureaucracy — and it’s important you understand what that means.

You attacked America. Maybe you think it was justified — as a response to a stolen election, or a cabal of child-trafficking pedophiles, or whatever — but it was still a violent attack on the United States. No matter how you describe it, that’s how the real Deep State is going to treat it.

The impact of that will make everything else feel like a LARP.

ARC Digital Article

[ProfessorGAC]

1. Made A Similar Comment Yesterday

They're finding out that there is a deep state, and what they do is enforce the law!

[getagrip_already]

2. ok, what is a LARP?

Afraid to ask, but curious.

[nsd]

3. Live Action Role Play

"a type of interactive role-playing game in which the participants portray characters through physical action, often in costume and with props"


Basically, people dress up in costumes -- as knights or sorcerers or superheroes or whatever -- and play act scenarios.

[getagrip_already]

6. if they meant cos play, why didn't they say it?

lol......

[JHB]

9. Because they're related but not the same thing

A LARP is an actual game, like D&D, or Clue for that matter, since there are "detective" LARPs.

Cosplay is the costuming thing, sometimes with a skit thrown in if hamming up the characters is part of a contest (costume+play).

[getagrip_already]

10. ahh, now I get it....

I was never into gaming. well, not since I conquered adventure in the 70's. lol.

[JHB]

12. I was, so I can trace it...

LARPs grew out of table-top role-playing games like D&D. I never partook, but remember them mostly as side-events at sci-fi and gaming conventions. In some places they were a college club thing.

"Cosplay" has definitely existed in the US since at least the early 70s and people putting on Spock-ears, but the word itself actually filtered over from Japanese fandoms via the US anime fandom (which has plenty of overlap with the others) in the 90s. The Japanese fandom was big on having skits during their competitions (as opposed to just showing off a costume), and that enthusiasm, and the portmanteau that described the whole package, came over and came to also encompass simple costuming.

[SlogginThroughIt]

15. Because it isn't the same thing?

[getagrip_already]

16. yeah, that was pointesd out, my apologies.. lol n/t

[abqtommy]

4. LARP is Live Action Role Play. I looked it up since I didn't know either.

[rogue emissary]

5. Stands for Live Action Role Play

Came from Dungeon and Dragons players acting out their games. Instead of just sitting at a table and playing their game.

[JohnQFunk]

8. Live-Action Role Playing

[maxsolomon]

7. Unless that Deep State is institutionally Racist

(and it is because it is part of America), then the punishment is mitigated by that Structural Racism, and will not punish White Conservatives as harshly as it punishes the Black and Brown (and Left, for that matter).

Think of the Bundy Clan's treatment versus Michael Reinheohl's summary execution.

[AntiFascist]

11. I first heard of the "Deep State" years ago relating to anti-democratic efforts in Turkey...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_state_in_Turkey

[JHB]

14. That exact phrase might not have been used, but I remember the concept from the 80s...

...being used by lefties in the context of CIA and other intelligence community personnel thwarting reform efforts during the Carter administration in reaction to abuses uncovered by congressional investigations.

[AntiFascist]

17. Also Operation Condor from the 70's...

supporting the assassination of leftists fighting authoritarian governments:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/12/world/americas/argentina-dictatorship-cia-documents.html

[ffr]

13. THEY are the Deep State. Always have been.

The guys being the curtains pulling the strings.

[Renew Deal]

18. That's a good article

I wonder if the loons will read it.

[nsd]

19. The best line:

"You cheered on lawyers who said they’d release the Kraken. But now you’ve poked Leviathan."