You can't see him, or talk to him, he makes false predictions, yet people believe.

[lindysalsagal]

https://www.bbc.com/news/53498434

What is it?
At its heart, QAnon is a wide-ranging, completely unfounded theory that says that President Trump is waging a secret war against elite Satan-worshipping paedophiles in government, business and the media.

QAnon believers have speculated that this fight will lead to a day of reckoning where prominent people such as former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will be arrested and executed.

That's the basic story, but there are so many offshoots, detours and internal debates that the total list of QAnon claims is enormous - and often contradictory. Adherents draw in news events, historical facts and numerology to develop their own far-fetched conclusions.

Where did it all start?
In October 2017, an anonymous user put a series of posts on the message board 4chan. The user signed off as "Q" and claimed to have a level of US security approval known as "Q clearance".

These messages became known as "Q drops" or "breadcrumbs", often written in cryptic language peppered with slogans, pledges and pro-Trump themes.

So, really, believers have never seen Q, don't know Q's identity, can't contact Q, and are given no substantial evidence for any of Q's claims. Q makes numerous false predictions, yet people continue to believe. Sound familiar?

[ret5hd]

1. Kinda sounds like "god" also.

[Sneederbunk]

3. No atheists in QAnon?

[ret5hd]

4. Irrelevant question.

[blm]

2. Qsheep are Qrazy RepubliQQans.

Add them to the Krazy RepubliKKKans and you have today’s GOP.

[Effete Snob]

5. "Q makes numerous false predictions"

There have been a couple of ok documentaries on the Q phenomenon lately, which are worth a look.

"Q" doesn't make predictions.

The way the Q information ecosystem works is that the "Q" figure makes ambiguous, cryptic oracular statements.

Those statements are then interpreted by a set of social media commentators of varying repute within the ranks of Qidiots. In other words, the predictions aren't made by Q, they are made by self-appointed interpreters of Q.

This arrangement has the advantage that Q is never wrong - only interpretations of things Q has said are wrong. Its the same reason why there are various "Bible believing" churches that don't agree on what the Bible says about anything. At the end of the day, you have a ball of ambiguous inconsistent nonsense, and that corpus of information is but a palette from which others paint pictures.

[lindysalsagal]

6. "a ball of ambiguous inconsistent nonsense" Very well said.

Exactly what I was thinking.

[Claire Oh Nette]

8. A beautiful and deadly accurate observation:

"you have a ball of ambiguous inconsistent nonsense, and that corpus of information is but a palette from which others paint pictures."

damn...

[bluewater]

7. Q works in mysterious ways...

[Wounded Bear]

9. All hail the infallible Qod...