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  • DogWater@lemmy.worldtoReddit@lemmy.world•Elon Musk’s Alleged Unverified 4chan Account Leaked: Calls Himself “Antichrist,” Praises Hitler, God Complex, Antisemitic Rants, New World Order agenda
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    1 year ago

    Yeah they were the butt of the joke because they didn’t get it. Like if this leak stuff is real I would love to learn about the actual Q posts on 4chan. It was probably a different person posing as Q every time. Or 1 or 2 people with a long con joke. it was just dumb shit someone was making up online like that episode of South Park where stan becomes the reincarnation of L ron Hubbard.

    But the problem was outsiders saw what they thought was a growing movement. and then it started to unironically take root with social media personalities and influxes of new people looking for something to blame for their problems.

    The real reasons are complex and hard to define.

    Qanon and then maga makes it easy. It’s “them”. Who is them? Doesn’t matter. Deep state, Jews, immigrants, etc. but the point is there is something concrete and simple to point at when people start looking for answers to the problems they have today. This was all brewing when a bunch of other stuff was going on creating a tinder box.

    The reality is something closer to a series of unrelated events slowly becoming entertained within the last 30 years.

    Unregulated Capitalism was crashing head first into a technology explosion in the 2000s which companies with capital learned to exploit quickly. It’s capitalism, so they are incentivised to do that The Iraq and Afghanistan wars after 9/11 gave rise to an entire culture of “patriotism” based on xenophobia and Protecting Americans and American Values ( the name of French fries was changed briefly to dunk on France for not helping us enough in the middle east). Automation has exploded in the information age making labor cheaper than ever, moving jobs overseas, reducing head counts in domestic factories, etc. and then 2008 happened.

    So people with the power listen to people with money (citizens United), and they pushed susceptible working class people into erroding their own freedoms (remember the patriot act) because they were mad at a Boogeyman that doesn’t actually exist for stealing an American dream from them that was never sustainable after the boomer generation. Unregulated Capitalism will always eat itself. Combine that with Trump being blackmailed by Russian oligarchs for years because he has an ego problem and is very good at losing money right when America is trying to recover from 2008 and some hot we get this bullshit today.

    And then when the ruling class realized that the masses are too poor to fight back they just dropped all pretenses.

    All because of some stupid gorilla named harambe