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Let's go with: No, it doesn't. QAnon requires you to believe absolutely insane stuff, like Anderson Cooper drinking the blood of babies. This theory would requ
by mckirk 6y ago
Let's go with: No, it doesn't.
QAnon requires you to believe absolutely insane stuff, like Anderson Cooper drinking the blood of babies.
This theory would require you to believe that enormously wealthy entities would find a way to use their influence and their knowledge of the inner workings of the stock market they know like the back of their hand to prevent themselves from losing a metric shit ton of money.
I'm not saying it necessarily happened, because it would still be awfully hard to hide your tracks and there'd be hell to pay if you failed, but those two conspiracy theories are definitely on different levels of 'hard to believe'.
- iamacyborg 6y agoI mean the flavour of the conspiracy and the way it’s playing out. There’s always a certain date where apparently Trump will save the day, or the Squeeze will happen, and yet we continue to pass that ever shifting goalpost. Adherents to the conspiracy seem unfazed and just get sucked deeper into it as they see the event not happening as further evidence of the conspiracy.
- mckirk 6y agoAh, I think that's a quite different aspect than the comment you were replying to was referring to, though. There definitely still are people that expect the "rocket to start any minute now", and a lot of those might also believe that they were stopped from making a ton of money by evil forces -- that might be loosely comparable to a cult like QAnon. But that doesn't mean that there aren't some reasonable questions to be asked about the strange occurrences on the stock market last week.
- iamacyborg 6y agoYeah probably, it was just what immediately struck my mind. As far as strange occurrences, I doubt we’ll ever have a satisfactory answer given how much of the market is now run by black boxes.
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