“Speaking for myself, the Flynn Family is done being a f’ing pin cushion for the mob,” Flynn posted on X on April 17.

Oh boo-hoo.

  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    So… a similar, though less serious, thing actually happened to Alex Jones… way back before Q, I think even before he made the Sandy Hook claims that have since ruined him.

    Pretty much, a ‘theory’ started going around that… Alex Jones… was actually Bill Hicks, in a new identity, who had faked his death, and gotten plastic surgery.

    Jones was actually quite flustered, and basically had a few shows where he was like ‘guys, come on, hahaha, but no, be serious’… and then within 15 minutes would be talking with like David Icke about lizard people or something.

    Source: Me, I was deep into the conspiracy nonsense, raised by a bunch of dysfunctional right wing fundie nutters, but I managed to pull the eject handle after… well basically going through a conspiricist deconversion, after i went through a christianity deconversion.

    Hooray critical thinking, apparently an uncommon trait in my family lineage.

    I have no idea if you can still find archives of clips or stories infowars ran on their websitr, but this was a thing that happened.

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    6 days ago

    So I’ve never read all the QAnon “drops” but I know they exist. Wouldn’t it be trivially easy to feed all of them into an LLM, and then have it generate Q-like “drops” that look authentic? Then, post many “drops” all over the conspiracy theory sites under different pseudonyms. Since they are built from the read Q drops, and conspiracy theories are mostly bullshit anyway, wouldn’t they be impossible to discern Q “official” messages from LLM garbage/hallucinations? Wouldn’t this effectively DDoS the conspiracy theories?

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      So, there are like… thousands, tens of thousands of Q drops.

      Many of them were likely written by Ron Watkins and his dad, but the writing styles have changed over time, and it may have been others as well.

      This is known because people did run them through forensic text analysis techniques and algorithms… and significant vocab and writing style differences do make themselves apparent.

      So… yes, you could run them through an LLM and make more posts… but this wouldn’t matter.

      You point out that they’re all bs anyway… but thats the problem: you can’t defeat this with more bullshit. People would just pick the parts of the new bullshit they like, and run with it… as they have done to all the ‘real’ Q posts.

      DDoSing would in this case just amplify the problem. The problem is utterly stupid/paranoid people with no critical thinking skills and very often legit mental disorders… who can spread any nonsense message easily to other stupid/paranoid people with no critical thinking skills and often legit mental disorders.

      This is horrifyingly ironic, but the only thing that could possibly fix this would be the computers from MGS2 that are actually very competent and intelligent AIs that are effectively shadow banning or otherwise quarantining all of this nonsense…

      …but that won’t happen because the people IRL in charge of much more primitive AI would actually do the opposite and want to spread more propoganda and disinfo… and well, the plague is a pandemic at this point, its much harder to unbreak an egg than it is to not drop it.

      Q adherents more or less treat all the Q posts as a massive body of holy scriptures, and then argue about how to interperet them properly… because they are astoundingly vague and full of acronyms and contradictions, and are very often just literally giant lists of leading questions … they’re designed to make paranoid nutters go insane trying to interperet them.

      So, what emerged was a number of… Q Interpreters. Something like various high clergy of an early religious movement… their followers would get into arguments with other sects about how to interperet the texts and what doctrine should be.

      Lately, there basically aren’t any more new Q posts, haven’t been in a while… but all of the conspiro-religious notions and movements have splintered off and further continued in other forms.

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      More likely the conspiracy nuts would just go ahead and believe all of them.

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        Make sure to introduce contradictory posts. That way you’d divide the audience along ideological lines and foment infighting.

        Should I be concerned these steps come so clearly to me?

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          Subterfuge and creative thought are valuable skills. As long as you use them to subvert cruelty, there is nothing to be worried about.

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          Do it, coward, you won’t.

          (please make these morons go away forever I beg of you)

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          They’re willing to disregard the evidence of their own senses if it doesn’t agree with their conspiracies. Mearly believing multiple, contradictory, theories would be as easy as breathing. They’re all true, we just need Q to drop the next info dump that explains how. Trust the plan etc…

          That said, it would be quite entertaining to watch, so go for it, what’s the worst that could happen…

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        Bonus points can be had if you respond to your own pseudonym posts with sock puppet accounts accusing your original posts of being at least partially fake, but citing parts of the LLM garbage as accepted fact. The dismissed “fake” parts would be dismissed, but the rest of the LLM garbage would be accepted into the canon.

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      I also have not read such dumps. I think the LLM was too verbose…

      QAnon Drop - April 29, 2025

      Greetings, Patriots!

      The storm is upon us. The Deep State is scrambling, and the truth is finally coming to light. Hold onto your tinfoil hats because this one is a doozy.

      1. The Vatican Conclave Conspiracy:

      You thought the papal conclave starting on May 7 was just about electing a new pope? Think again! The Vatican is a hotbed of secret societies and hidden agendas. Keep your eyes peeled for any unusual smoke signals—they might be Morse code for the next phase of the globalist takeover.

      2. The Coral Reef Crisis:

      The International Coral Reef Initiative reports that over 84% of the world’s coral reefs are affected by bleaching. But what they aren’t telling you is that this is all part of a plan to create underwater bases for the elite. Why else would they be so interested in coral? It’s not just about the environment, folks.

      3. The Tariff Tit-for-Tat:

      China’s 34% reciprocal tariff on American goods is just a distraction. The real action is happening behind the scenes, where global powers are playing a high-stakes game of economic chess. Expect more “coincidental” trade wars as the cabal tries to maintain control.

      4. The Flower Show Facade:

      The Flower Show in NYC from April 27 to May 11 might seem like a celebration of nature, but it’s actually a cover for clandestine meetings. Those “flowers” are just code names for powerful figures. Ever wondered why they need so many “volunteers”? It’s all about the optics, patriots.

      5. The Stagecoach Festival Fiasco:

      Think the Stagecoach Festival from April 25–27 is just about music? Wrong! It’s a gathering of the elite, disguised as a country music extravaganza. Keep an eye out for any “special guests” who might be pulling the strings from behind the scenes.

      Stay vigilant, patriots. The truth is out there, and it’s up to us to expose it. Trust the plan. The Great Awakening is near.


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    6 days ago

    That’s the thing about playing with the mob, you don’t get to decide when it’s over.

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    Think he’s figured anything out about mob mentality and the damage they do in service to utter bullshit?

    Yeah… me neither.

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    This is the thread where everyone who denounces disinformation decides disinformation/LLMs are different when our side does it.

    Gods help us.