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drunkencarp posted:Maybe I'm living in a fool's paradise but I think it's possible to be angry at Bank of America, Lehman Brothers, rich financial sector douchebags, etc, without it being code for antisemitism. Or is this like the thing where (some) Texans complain about "Canadians" on Facebook and "Canadian" is secret code for "black?" It totally is. A lot of conspiracy theories have remained basically the same but with "bankers" swapped with "Jews. It is, of course, possible to hate banks for reasons that aren't anti-semitism, but a far-right dude complaining about the Frankfurt School's baneful influence is probably just a crypto-racist.
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drunkencarp posted:Maybe I'm living in a fool's paradise but I think it's possible to be angry at Bank of America, Lehman Brothers, rich financial sector douchebags, etc, without it being code for antisemitism.
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I mean let's not absolve people who work for the banks of responsibility. Somebody said 'Hey let's let the robot drive the bus.' and their are still people who could flip the off switch on the robot if they so chose. Jamie Dimon and the people at his level are absolutely complicit in the global economic collapses, because they aren't acting to stop them since that would cost them money. If people decide not to get into the profession because it is (rightly) derided that would be to the good. VVV I guess I'm just of the opinion that the people at Bank of America who make the decisions that we're talking about when we say BoA is evil (the ones who sign off on the drug cartel accounts etc.) are evil. I don't actually think BoA itself is capable of malice, that's too much like recognizing it as a person. Ultimately it's the people who work at a place that are (morally) accountable for the actions it takes regardless of the legality. I think that's what the people who rage against bankers are saying, though they may be more or less articulate depending on circumstance. I guess it could be coded anti-Semitism, but it seems more like class war to me. Peztopiary has a new favorite as of 18:23 on Jan 15, 2015 |
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Yeah, absolutely there are responsible parties. I just see those people more as run of the mill greedy, short-sighted pricks than as globe-hugging octopus men
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Peztopiary posted:I think that's what the people who rage against bankers are saying, though they may be more or less articulate depending on circumstance. I guess it could be coded anti-Semitism, but it seems more like class war to me.
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Jan 15, 2015 19:08
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Here's a thought, maybe idiots can apply the same mindset independently to either Jews or bankers?!?? Or even both? Or the Illuminati instead?
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Sham bam bamina! posted:Here's a thought, maybe idiots can apply the same mindset independently to either Jews or bankers?!?? Or even both? Or the Illuminati instead? That sounds like something a banker would say 
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Jan 15, 2015 19:32
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Look let's all agree it's the reptoids.
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Jan 15, 2015 19:50
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neonnoodle posted:Look let's all agree it's the reptoids. Are the reptoids Jews, and if so, how devout?
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Tiberius Thyben posted:Are the reptoids Jews, and if so, how devout? Assuming this lizard in a kippah is also a banker then only moderately devout. I don't think they can grow those sweet sideburn curls you need to be fully orthodox. 
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neonnoodle posted:Look let's all agree it's the reptoids. Wait, aren't they at war with the octopoids?  IslamoNazi posted:Assuming this lizard in a kippah is also a banker then only moderately devout. I don't think they can grow those sweet sideburn curls you need to be fully orthodox. 
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If they don't have external genitalia then they aren't circumcised so not very. Who knows anything about reptoid genitalia? (It's all of you, isn't it.)
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Jan 15, 2015 21:43
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Reptoids can't be Jewish, they aren't kosher.
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NoNotTheMindProbe posted:Reptoids can't be Jewish, they aren't kosher. Human meat isn't kosher, either.
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The draco-reptilian nonsense is simply the cover identity for the subterranean Vril empire, wake up sheeple. Also, it's the Cathedral now, not International Bankers. Get with it.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Human meat isn't kosher, either.
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Sham bam bamina! posted:What does that have to do with the Jews??? By Jove, you're right!
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neonnoodle posted:Yeah, absolutely there are responsible parties. I just see those people more as run of the mill greedy, short-sighted pricks than as globe-hugging octopus men Alan Moore posted:The main thing that I learned about conspiracy theory is that conspiracy theorists actually believe in a conspiracy because that is more comforting. The truth of the world is that it is chaotic. The truth is, that it is not the Jewish banking conspiracy or the grey aliens or the 12 foot reptiloids from another dimension that are in control. The truth is more frightening, nobody is in control. The world is rudderless.
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drunkencarp posted:Maybe I'm living in a fool's paradise but I think it's possible to be angry at Bank of America, Lehman Brothers, rich financial sector douchebags, etc, without it being code for antisemitism. Or is this like the thing where (some) Texans complain about "Canadians" on Facebook and "Canadian" is secret code for "black?" I know it's a thing I've heard in the food service industry, but also I swear Freepers call black people something equally innocuous due to some news story but I can't find reference to it in the Freeper threads somehow. For more relevant content, I overheard an older guy at work talking earnestly with another bro-y 40-something guy about Tunney and Moldbug specifically. They both check infowars at work in between calls. This guy almost got fired for walking out in disgust when the new security guard asked to see his badge because he dresses like a goddamn hobo, even for callcenter work, because MAH RIGHTS. Somehow he didn't get fired? He is very angry about his ex wife "becoming a feminazi" and how the leadership at my center is super liberal and several men & women of color and white women are in the mix as supervisors and leads and such. I think it's a good thing, but their monotone, rambling asses have worked here so long they believe magically without interviewing they should be given a job promotion over "those types." Just saying it's remarkable because I had no loving clue these people existed in the wild & that they weren't all twenty-something tech sector dingbats. Treguna Mekoides has a new favorite as of 08:33 on Jan 25, 2015 |
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On Freep they call black people 'amish' because 'the news never mentions a suspect's race!'
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nucleicmaxid posted:On Freep they call black people 'amish' because 'the news never mentions a suspect's race!' THANK YOU. I couldn't find the source and felt a little loony trying to Google it. I thought about searching OKCupid for Dark Enlightenment buzzwords out of curiosity... but then I'd have to go onto OKCupid and search for DE buzzwords.
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Treguna Mekoides posted:THANK YOU. I couldn't find the source and felt a little loony trying to Google it. I thought about searching OKCupid for Dark Enlightenment buzzwords out of curiosity... but then I'd have to go onto OKCupid and search for DE buzzwords. I actually think that might turn up some 5 quality stuff
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nucleicmaxid posted:On Freep they call black people 'amish' because 'the news never mentions a suspect's race!' It leads to much amusement when Amish people do make the news for crimes.
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Its like the reverse of Sovereign Citizen word magic mumbo jumbo; I can say anything I want but not be racist as long as I don't actually use the big racist words! Bonus that I can call other people racist when they call me racist because I didn't use an actual racist word!
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Personally, I think it's more that we live in a world where we're constantly aware of the achievements of people who are way, way smarter than us, who might be better at the things we do than we could ever hope to be. So, in order to feel good about themselves, conspiracy theorists construct this narrative where *everybody else* is stupid and deluded 'sheeple', and they're the only ones who really see what's going on, allowing them to believe that they're smarter/better without actually doing anything to prove that.
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Treguna Mekoides posted:THANK YOU. I couldn't find the source and felt a little loony trying to Google it. I thought about searching OKCupid for Dark Enlightenment buzzwords out of curiosity... but then I'd have to go onto OKCupid and search for DE buzzwords. DO IT. This could be the start of a great new (actually funny) tumblr.
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Lamprey Cannon posted:Personally, I think it's more that we live in a world where we're constantly aware of the achievements of people who are way, way smarter than us, who might be better at the things we do than we could ever hope to be. So, in order to feel good about themselves, conspiracy theorists construct this narrative where *everybody else* is stupid and deluded 'sheeple', and they're the only ones who really see what's going on, allowing them to believe that they're smarter/better without actually doing anything to prove that. 
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Jack Gladney posted:DO IT. This could be the start of a great new (actually funny) tumblr. I found 4 women who mention feminazi and stopped playing.
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IslamoNazi posted:I found 4 women who mention feminazi and stopped playing. 22/F/Bergen 
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Lamprey Cannon posted:Personally, I think it's more that we live in a world where we're constantly aware of the achievements of people who are way, way smarter than us, who might be better at the things we do than we could ever hope to be. So, in order to feel good about themselves, conspiracy theorists construct this narrative where *everybody else* is stupid and deluded 'sheeple', and they're the only ones who really see what's going on, allowing them to believe that they're smarter/better without actually doing anything to prove that. The people I've met who actually believe them have minds that tend to work in that schizophrenic kind of way where any little incidental pattern is amplified 100 times, like the pattern-matching parts of their brain are massively over-driven. Suddenly something completely meaningless like "these pictures of presidents are all at weird angles or have weird lighting that kinda-sorta make their eyes look funny if you squint" becomes "all of these presidents have weird eyes" and then "all of these presidents are secretly reptiles." Otherwise they've all been perfectly fine people 
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Wales Grey posted:22/F/Bergen ...is that some kind of porno flick?
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Slime posted:...is that some kind of porno flick? no
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Slime posted:...is that some kind of porno flick? 70's exploitation flick. So almost but not quite porn, almost but not quite torture porn, and just legit enough to see screenings in regular theaters when it was made.
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Actually, a lot of the DE people in this thread are basically just a super-suit or industrial accident away from being a supervillain if you think about it. Probably not a coincidence that most of them love comics. But a dominatrix is probably the closest thing to a real-life supervillain that actually exists.
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Jack Gladney posted:Actually, a lot of the DE people in this thread are basically just a super-suit or industrial accident away from being a supervillain if you think about it. Probably not a coincidence that most of them love comics. A dominatrix? You kidding? They're just women who get paid to whip dudes. Read up on the recent revelations about the UK Cabinet under Margaret Thatcher. They were at least Bond villain-tier.
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I mean in the ridiculous cartoon theatrical sense, as well as in terms of single-minded stupid obsessions. Like, somebody like that would fit in on the old Batman show, and DE people kind of do too insofar as they choose loving ridiculous names and want to do insane, impossible things. But they don't have lairs or costumes, even if some have codenames. The CEO of Cocoa-Cola would not, even if he's currently enacting a plot to monopolize access to potable water in a dozen countries and has hired death squads to crush unions in Guatamala. Real loving evil masterminds from James Bond have of course ruled the world for at least 100 years and enacted evil schemes often predicted in adventure stories or old movies, but they don't flounce around in loving capes and talk in operatic, overblown language. I think Aurini would love to do that, though. We need a more precise vocabulary to document the kind of lunacy the internet enables.
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Jack Gladney posted:I mean in the ridiculous cartoon theatrical sense, as well as in terms of single-minded stupid obsessions. Like, somebody like that would fit in on the old Batman show, and DE people kind of do too insofar as they choose loving ridiculous names and want to do insane, impossible things. But they don't have lairs or costumes, even if some have codenames. The CEO of Cocoa-Cola would not, even if he's currently enacting a plot to monopolize access to potable water in a dozen countries and has hired death squads to crush unions in Guatamala. The Elm Guest House crowd had literal child rape dungeons in white-tie clubs. Occasionally, the rape dungeons had fancy-dress nights. They could get pretty theatrical in their evil. I mean, poo poo, a recently-deceased cabinet minister is accused, on alarmingly plausible grounds, of sitting on a loving throne in a full-length ballgown, out of his mind on cocaine, as a pair of underlings raped a little boy in front of him and beat him to death. We Brits do our abhorrent poo poo old-school.
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Darth Walrus posted:The Elm Guest House crowd had literal child rape dungeons in white-tie clubs. Occasionally, the rape dungeons had fancy-dress nights. They could get pretty theatrical in their evil. I mean, poo poo, a recently-deceased cabinet minister is accused, on alarmingly plausible grounds, of sitting on a loving throne in a full-length ballgown, out of his mind on cocaine, as a pair of underlings raped a little boy in front of him and beat him to death. That's enough internet for me today. Goodnight, SA.
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Darth Walrus posted:sitting on a loving throne in a full-length ballgown, out of his mind on cocaine, as a pair of underlings raped a little boy in front of him and beat him to death.
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