Shane laughs at this - incredible. BIM calls it "neither right nor left". People are going to straight up ignore all the evidence that this is being pushed by Q-Anon freaks, and push it as neutral content. Incredible. People would rather believe in blood cabals and harvesting children then face reality.
Compared to this nonsense,
Sound of Freedom is relatively grounded in our universe. But that mainstream accessibility makes it valuable as a recruitment tool, much as generic “
Save the Children” campaigns proved gateways to far-right conspiracy theories about a secret cabal of evil elites conducting blood rituals. On the QAnon message board Great Awakening this week, adherents celebrated the movie’s box-office success (it quickly
made back its modest budget of around $14 million and
out-earned the latest
Indiana Jones sequel on July 4, its premiere date, after the franchise blockbuster had been out for several days) while crowing that “
demons,” including movie theater employees
annoyed by the demographic it pulled in, were miserable at their victory.
“Do you see how more powerful we are than the legacy news?”
wrote one board user. “We are the news now!” On a different thread, someone
attempted to prove that
Donald Trump‘s endorsement of the film on Truth Social on Thursday was connected to a random Q post from 2018 (because of the time stamps on each). Some
discussed efforts to get “normies” who are “in need of awakening” to see
Sound of Freedom, including with the assistance of a promotional program that allows customers to
buy tickets for strangers. “Crimes against children will unite us all. Eyes are opening,” read one
optimistic post, while another was more emphatic still: “We are witnessing true divine intervention.”
And for all the "durr, what about the children" crowd, this is a group that deliberately conflates and lies about child abduction to sell their whacko ideas. The biggest threats to children are always in the family. But who wants to talk about that, when you can talk about harvesting child brains for adenechrome. Deeply unserious country.
The author very clearly outlines the dangers of spreading this crap:
"There is visible suffering all around us in America. There are poor and unhoused, and people brutalized or killed by police. There are mass shootings, lack of healthcare, climate disasters. And yet, over and over, the far right turns to these sordid fantasies about godless monsters hurting children. Now, as in the 1980s Satanic panic, they won’t even face the fact that most kids who suffer sexual abuse are harmed not by a shadowy cabal of strangers, but at the hands of a
family member. To know thousands of adults will absorb
Sound of Freedom, this vigilante fever dream, and come away thinking themselves better informed on a hidden civilizational crisis… well, it’s profoundly depressing. Worse still, they’ll want to spread the word."
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Dude, QAnon uses EVERYTHING to further their conspiracies. Better quit drinking water, because I am pretty sure they have a conspiracy about that. That's what they do. They take things and make arguments about how that supports their theories.
