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That could explain "Q Anon" - maybe his day job is polishing linoleum floors.

Hamuko 5y ago
Or more plausibly, his day job is trolling imageboards.
mike_d 5y ago
We will never know for sure, but well researched and supported theories about who is behind the Q persona indicate that none of the people involved have ever seen the inside of a secure facility.
- ocschwar 5y ago
  The mere fact that they hint at a Q clearance shows they have no idea how little weight that actually carries.
xxpor 5y ago
I thought I had read that "Q" explicitly said that's where the name comes from
- chihuahua 5y ago
  That's what I read too. "Q" seems to want to imply that he's some super-privileged insider. But apparently a Q clearance is not all it's cracked up to be.
  - avs733 5y ago
    Not just that…it is unrelated to anything Q claims to know about. The DOE isn’t the CIA
bb88 5y ago
Remember that the best lies also have a kernel of truth in them. You don't need to have a Q clearance to say you have one on 4chan, 8chan, 8kun (etc). How would anyone validate your Q clearance? Instead you just post something plausible, but just out of the reach of validation.
Perceval 5y ago
You could tell that Q Anon was fake from the very first post, because they said Q was the "highest clearance," a statement that is doubly incorrect. Q is an access, not a clearance. Confidential, Secret, and Top Secret are the only clearances—people with Q must have a Top Secret clearance. And, Q doesn't provide you access to higher level information about global politics than Top Secret, it provides you access to information about nuclear weapon design. None of the things Q Anon purported to have insight into were at all related to the actual information controlled by the Q access.
- Pokepokalypse 5y ago
  > Confidential, Secret, and Top Secret are the only clearances Not necessarily. Maybe in DoD land, but there's also a different system (uses similar terminology) for the State Department, and Department of Education (and some others) also has a thing called "Public Trust Clearance" and they involve different background checks (which aren't transferable). But the DoD clearance is the one that takes much longer to complete.

Or more plausibly, his day job is trolling imageboards.

We will never know for sure, but well researched and supported theories about who is behind the Q persona indicate that none of the people involved have ever seen the inside of a secure facility.

ocschwar 5y ago
The mere fact that they hint at a Q clearance shows they have no idea how little weight that actually carries.

xxpor 5y ago

I thought I had read that "Q" explicitly said that's where the name comes from

chihuahua 5y ago
That's what I read too. "Q" seems to want to imply that he's some super-privileged insider. But apparently a Q clearance is not all it's cracked up to be.
- avs733 5y ago
  Not just that…it is unrelated to anything Q claims to know about. The DOE isn’t the CIA

bb88 5y ago

Remember that the best lies also have a kernel of truth in them. You don't need to have a Q clearance to say you have one on 4chan, 8chan, 8kun (etc). How would anyone validate your Q clearance? Instead you just post something plausible, but just out of the reach of validation.

Perceval 5y ago

You could tell that Q Anon was fake from the very first post, because they said Q was the "highest clearance," a statement that is doubly incorrect. Q is an access, not a clearance. Confidential, Secret, and Top Secret are the only clearances—people with Q must have a Top Secret clearance. And, Q doesn't provide you access to higher level information about global politics than Top Secret, it provides you access to information about nuclear weapon design. None of the things Q Anon purported to have insight into were at all related to the actual information controlled by the Q access.

Pokepokalypse 5y ago
> Confidential, Secret, and Top Secret are the only clearances Not necessarily. Maybe in DoD land, but there's also a different system (uses similar terminology) for the State Department, and Department of Education (and some others) also has a thing called "Public Trust Clearance" and they involve different background checks (which aren't transferable). But the DoD clearance is the one that takes much longer to complete.