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by yhamv 2515 days ago
Well, QAnon is real, no? It's not a spirit writing those posts.
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Yes sure, if we reduce 'real' to just mean it's not created ex nihilo out of the aether sure, but everything is 'real' under that definition... ultimately everything is still attributable to a human decision to kick off a process.

Is QAnon actually a highly placed government official (or someone with access to information about the function and plans at a high level)? From all their big predictions so far (arrests etc) being false I think we can pretty easily conclude no.

To understand what makes something real, we first have to understand what makes something fake.
QAnon purports to be an important person with access to inside information. It is beyond silly that you interpreted my statement to mean that there isn't a physical person typing those posts.

Are you someone who cannot resist coming up with a counter-argument no matter how thin? You might want to ponder how much value that adds to discourse in general.