I didn't read Taleb's Skin In The Game but I do know the proverb to which it refers. You don't listen to some yokel who tells you that your antique is totally worth $4000 yo if he is not writing "to the order of four thousands dallaz, no sentz" in his checkbook. In that spirit, here is Mark Brahmin: What exactly are Q-followers "giving up" or "quitting" if they stop believing in the theory? After all they are not part of the supposed benevolent Q-conspiracy/revolt. They are doing nothing actively to fulfill it.
The biggest boosters of the Q "drops" - Vox Day, NeonRevolt, Anonymous Conservative to an extent - were not telling their readers what they could do to help The Plan. I mean, sure: "Opp Seck". But if there was some secret chessmove going on, Vox Day would have given commands out to his "evil legion of evil".
Ahh but that assumes that Neon Revolt cared. Him and all those other assholes had no skin in this game. For f's sake Beale doesn't even live in the US.
Plenty of Q followers had skin in this game. They were the ones demanding something more substantive, even several of those "Blackpill-ers" now getting banished. Not that stupid raid on the Capitol, I mean something effective. If you claim an entire leeegion of your best Imperial stormtroopers, you had two months to use them.
Instead what Vox Day really, really wanted was for his commenters to shut up about it all, unless to give [ineffectual] praise. Some would even argue that the latter be worse than the former, as far as getting sh!t done. But not Beale; he's delivering a blacklist of the first to surrender.
What surrender? There was no fight.
It was all attention-seeking to build up the fanbase. And indeed that's how you winnow out the chaff: build up the false hope in the full knowledge that nothing is going to happen. Now you got yourself a cult: a coterie who will believe anything (the place was already demanding moon-landing denial and other clear absurdities). You're holding the little red football.
Well, whatever. If you want terrorists, you can keep your terrorists. Don't expect a lot of sympathy when USG / Kamala goes out to hunt down your terrorists.
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