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 @Ame To be fair, Mike Flynn seems to be less retarded than the average Q boomer. 
 Honestly, the queue people seem to understand (subconsciously at least) what's going on. The woo-woo stuff is for fun, a Schelling Point to rally around. The goal was to be relatively safe, avoid doing stupid shit, and be ready to act when needed, and they did all of that - largely just bad luck that J6 didn't go their way, and that the regime decided to move into full Soviet-style terror immediately thereafter. 

A lot of people try to dunk on the qoomers to sound smart, but I mentally discount the IQ of anyone I see doing that by about 10 points - their words are schizo, but their actions are relatively sound heuristics:

> Remain anon online at all costs

> IRL events should always teaming up with a larger, friendly group that is either too big or too well-liked to persecute

> Don't ever do anything remotely incriminating

> Act up only when a major figure that has a chance of success gives the word

> Messaging should, at minimum, be baseline tolerable to normal people. Don't sound antisocial.

You can compare them to the weird "Traditional Workers Party" glownigs and their various copycat groups, whose heuristics are:

> anonymity is overrated, get yourself 'vetted' (doxed) ASAP

> IRL events should be frequent and led by an obese man in an ill-fitting T-shirt with a highly alienating symbol on it

> Lack anonymity completely, get your members into altercations in hostile jurisdictions that are guaranteed to arrest them.

> Messaging should be as embarassing as possible to both everyone involved and any broader demographic that the FBI feels like targeting at the time. 
 @Ame

> Act up only when a major figure that has a chance of success gives the word

It depends what you mean with "act up", but i disagree people should act (legally act, protest, organize) when they have a major figure behind them, which, more likely than not, will be a controlled opposition like Trump himself.

> "anonymity is overrated, get yourself 'vetted' (doxed) ASAP"

In order to have a mass movement or organization, which is necessary to achieve political goals, it is NECESSARY to have a system of membership. Even if it's limited to an political vanguard that intends to lead a broader group associated/guided by it, it still needs to organize a reliable pool of political actors towards a collective goal. 
 That's all retarded. Claiming that every major figure that the regime demonstrates fear of is "controlled opposition" is a fear tactic used, ironically, primarily by controlled opposition groups.

Basically, if there's group composed of an obese guy 'leader' and a couple dozen inbred-looking losers insisting that the tall blond billionaire that's getting the book thrown at him for winning an election, the Afrikaner billionaire that's openly shittalking the funny nose people to an audience of hundreds of millions, and everyone else remotely effective is secretly controlled by the regime, you may want to avoid the first group.

Said groups claim to be "vanguards", but this is deceptive. They do not serve as the vanguard of anything. The Freikorps, who they pretend to emulate, emerged organically to defend a millions-strong political movement that was facing violent attacks when it rallied. A bunch of fatties and glowies waddling around, going out of their way to alienate every normal, healthy person that looks at them is just controlled opposition.