Poking the Bear

JFC. So much for that idea.

So just a quick side note while I finish this piece, which is … quite something I think.

One of the strategies I deployed as I investigated QAnon+ is “poking the bear” which involves exposing bad actors (bears) with specific truthful information designed to provoke a response. It works really well, because the shape of the response is almost always a big tell about what they’re protecting. Basically, the more viciously they react, the closer you are to what they are hiding.

I knew this would make me a target from the bears I was poking. I was prepared and I did fine.

What I didn’t understand is that when I sat down to poke QAnon bears I unknowingly sat in the lap of an 800-lb. gorilla with bad intentions. 😬