Astral Codex Ten

Q

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Q

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Q is a recurring concept in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between May 18, 2021 and September 28, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as “some of them become radicalized - by Q”; “the original Q’s Joseph Smith”. It most often appears alongside George Floyd, Trump, Twitter.

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  • Category: Concepts
  • Mention count: 2
  • Issue count: 2
  • First seen: May 18, 2021
  • Last seen: September 28, 2023

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

Highlights From The Comments On Culture Wars
May 18, 2021 · Original source
They support Trump because he angers people but then people storm the Capitol and the boys back off. But every day some of them become radicalized - by Q, or by Spencer before him, or by redpill before that.
Links For September 2023
September 28, 2023 · Original source
45: Romana Didulo mixes sovereign citizenship, QAnon, and messianism in her claim to be Queen of Canada, by the grace of the US military and extraterrestrials; her followers (30 who literally follow her around, 30,000 on social media)considered dangerous. I think this is an especially interesting case for theorists of religion - the James Strang to the original Q’s Joseph Smith. The cult deficit must have something to do with the channeling of religious feeling into politics, and the difficulty of having political “unobservables” in the sense that God and angels are unobservable. But with sufficient paranoia, everything becomes unobservable. We will have schisms over the true nature of the Senate; crusades will be fought over which amendments are in the Constitution; martyrs will go willingly to their deaths over how many pages are in the Inflation Reduction Act. This will be bad, of course - but sociologically fascinating.
Inline links: Romana Didulo, cult deficit