Twelve by Pies posted:

I hadn't heard anything about Dilbertman in a while and I had no idea he went full on alt-right. I was hoping to see more tweets about Q from him, instead I got tweets where he talks about how Antifa is clearly a terrorist group, liberals are pathetic and weak, and a bunch of retweets from Cernovich.

fishmech posted:

Like, reminder: America hasn't had congress declare a war since 1941.

Dr. Arbitrary posted:

I'm sure this has come up before, but is there any reference to adrenochrome prior to Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas? I know I've heard of it as a kooky conspiracy when I was a teenager.

Twelve by Pies posted:

I hadn't heard anything about Dilbertman in a while and I had no idea he went full on alt-right. I was hoping to see more tweets about Q from him, instead I got tweets where he talks about how Antifa is clearly a terrorist group, liberals are pathetic and weak, and a bunch of retweets from Cernovich.

Dr. VooDoo posted:

His views also infected the Dilbert comic where the Boss slowly morphed into the sympathetic character as Dilbert became an unlikeable douche

Twelve by Pies posted:

Read more Chick tracts!

https://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0062/0062_01.asp

Ague Proof posted:

Wasn't the original Pointy-Haired Boss just Trump, essentially?

twistedmentat posted:

I dunno i was always a fan of the one where the dad tells his kid that Muslims worship a "Moon Good!!!???" but then after the dad explains Jesus the Muslim converts.

Ague Proof posted:

Wasn't the original Pointy-Haired Boss just Trump, essentially?

twistedmentat posted:

I dunno i was always a fan of the one where the dad tells his kid that Muslims worship a "Moon Good!!!???" but then after the dad explains Jesus the Muslim converts.

Literally Kermit posted:

Wasn’t it like, right outside Mecca? I remember the dad and his kid more than a little over their heads on that one.

Ague Proof posted:

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Dr. Arbitrary posted:

I don't think it's reasonable to make big assumptions about Russian involvement in QAnon, but some comments in that tweet thread suggest this specific attack is aimed at a group that is tasked with countering Russian disinformation campaigns.

Prester Jane posted:

I don't know how many times this creature has to flap its wings and make quacking noises for y'all. But it seems pretty obvious to me at this point.

Dr. Arbitrary posted:

I think that Q is probably some goofass people, but it's not unbelievable at all that some of the Q priesthood has ulterior motives.

Don Gato posted:

I thought Michael Jackson was the only black guy who could turn white

Owlofcreamcheese posted:

It's the drencrom in milk plus in clockwork orange

fishing with the fam posted:

The internet is functionally magic to me, so pardon the most likely dumb question. But doesn't the government have the technology and resources to easily track down anyone and everyone who posts as "Q" on pretty much any platform or site?

fishing with the fam posted:

The internet is functionally magic to me, so pardon the most likely dumb question. But doesn't the government have the technology and resources to easily track down anyone and everyone who posts as "Q" on pretty much any platform or site?

fishing with the fam posted:

The internet is functionally magic to me, so pardon the most likely dumb question. But doesn't the government have the technology and resources to easily track down anyone and everyone who posts as "Q" on pretty much any platform or site?

Prester Jane posted:

https://mobile.twitter.com/travis_view/status/1026998503417905153

https://mobile.twitter.com/travis_view/status/1026972238820474880

I don't know how many times this creature has to flap its wings and make quacking noises for y'all. But it seems pretty obvious to me at this point.

Kobayashi posted:

Right, some incredibly online tweets mean Russia. Your counter-conspiracy theory is dumb because it doesn’t provide any predictive power.

quote:

An astoundingly small number of people produce the majority of the content. About 200 users account for a quarter of the forum’s comments. These people are clearly conspiracy theorists who believe they are investigators unearthing the truth, and they spend almost all their time on Reddit investigating these theories.

Another 700 users account for the next quarter of comments. The user we followed at the top of this story is among these people. They are active in /r/greatawakening but also spend time on other subreddits.

Nearly everyone else in the subreddit — the 11,000 commenters and 42,000 lurkers — are just along for the ride.

fishmech posted:

You can tell this is evil liberal fake news because it lists JP Morgan's reason for causing the sinking of the Titanic to be killing opposition to the Federal Reserve. In reality, he had it sunk to attempt to hide the existence of an ancient warm-frozen Egyptian princess who can be revived with the right equipment and return to her dominion over the Levant in the right hands.

RoboChrist 9000 posted:

I've not heard that one before. Please tell me it's an actual conspiracy theory.

Carnival of Shrews posted:

Everything you ever wanted to know about adrenochrome (written by a man called Rothschild ).

Conclusion: the notion that it's a psychedelic of astonishing potency came from a 1950's crank theory that perhaps people with schizophrenia were producing their own, in-body psychoactive drugs through some sort of metabolic mis-step. The route for this notion making its way into counterculture literature is almost certainly Huxley's 'The Doors of Perception'; the idea that it must be obtained from living human sources is a grisly flourish of Hunter S. Thompson's. Naturally, a few curious people have bought and taken the stuff to see if it gets them high: nope. One user said it gave them a splitting headache, but that may have been coincidence.

It's basically Bananadine, except with Satanic child murder instead of banana skins.

Dr. Arbitrary posted:

Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors

Lote posted:

To recap,

Adrenochrome is oxidized adrenaline aka epinephrine.

Epinephrine is cheap, easily made, and common.

Smoking is a good oxidizer.

If oxidized epinephrine / adrenochrome is such a huge high, why aren’t people smoking it instead of cocaine?

Lote posted:

To recap,

Adrenochrome is oxidized adrenaline aka epinephrine.

Epinephrine is cheap, easily made, and common.

Smoking is a good oxidizer.

If oxidized epinephrine / adrenochrome is such a huge high, why aren’t people smoking it instead of cocaine?

Mr.Unique-Name posted:

No, you see, it's different when it's produced by a human body. Like how natural diamonds are completely different and worth so much more than synthetic ones.

business hammocks posted:

Marketing? Do the satanists sell it as like part of a destination resort vacation, like diving for your own clams or something?

Dr. Arbitrary posted:

Think it's from Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors.

I would love for there to be an older reference though.

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Cursed Mummy on the Titanic
Did a mummy's curse send the Titanic to the bottom of the ocean?
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CLAIM: The Titanic went to a watery grave carrying a cursed mummy in its hold.


FALSE
EXAMPLE: [Collected on the Internet, 1998]


Of all tales of the supernatural, this one is perhaps the best documented, the most disturbing and the most difficult to explain . . .
The Princess of Amen-Ra lived some 1,500 years before Christ. When she died, she was laid in an ornate wooden coffin and buried deep in a vault at Luxor, on the banks of the Nile.

In the late 1890s, 4 rich young Englishmen visiting the excavations at Luxor were invited to buy an exquisitely fashioned mummy case containing the remains of Princess of Amen-Ra.

They drew lots. The man who won paid several thousand pounds and had the coffin taken to his hotel. A few hours later, he was seen walking out towards the desert. He never returned.

The next day, one of the remaining 3 men was shot by an Egyptian servant accidentally. His arm was so severely wounded it had to be amputated.

The third man in the foursome found on his return home that the bank holding his entire savings had failed. The fourth guy suffered a severe illness, lost his job and was reduced to selling matches in the street.

Nevertheless, the coffin reached England (causing other misfortunes along the way), where it was bought by a London businessman.

After 3 of his family members had been injured in a road accident and his house damaged by fire, the businessman donated it to the British Museum.

As the coffin was being unloaded from a truck in the museum courtyard, the truck suddenly went into reverse and trapped a passerby. Then as the casket was being lifted up the stairs by 2 workmen, 1 fell and broke his leg. The other, apparently in perfect health, died unaccountably two days later.

Once the Princess was installed in the Egyptian Room, trouble really started. The Museum’s night watchmen frequently heard frantic hammering and sobbing from the coffin. Other exhibits in the room were also often hurled about at night. One watchman died on duty; making the other watchmen wanting to quit. Cleaners refused to go near the Princess too. When a visitor derisively flicked a dustcloth at the face painted on the coffin, his child died of measles soon afterwards.

Finally, the authorities had the mummy carried down to the basement figuring it could not do any harm down there. Within a wk, one of the helpers was seriously ill, and the supervisor of the move was found dead on his desk.

By now, the papers had heard of it. A journalist photographer took a picture of the mummy case and when he developed it, the painting on the coffin was of a horrifying, human face. The photographer was said to have gone home then, locked his bedroom door and shot himself.

Soon afterwards, the museum sold the mummy to a private collector. After continual misfortune (and deaths), the owner banished it to the attic.

A well known authority on the occult, Madame Helena Blavatsky, visited the premises. Upon entry, she was sized with a shivering fit and searched the house for the source of an evil influence of incredible intensity; She finally came to the attic and found the mummy case.

Can you exorcise this evil spirit? Asked the owner. There is no such thing as exorcism. Evil remains evil forever. Nothing can be done about it. I implore you to get rid of this evil as soon as possible.

But no British museum would take the mummy; the fact that almost 20 people had met with misfortune, disaster or death from handling the casket, in barely 10 years, was now well known.

Eventually, a hardheaded American archaeologist (who dismissed the happenings as quirks of circumstance), paid a handsome price for the mummy and arranged for its removal to New York. In Apr 1912, the new owner escorted its treasure aboard a sparkling, new White Star liner about to make its maiden voyage to New York.

On the night of April 14, amid scenes of unprecedented horror, the Princess of Amen-Ra accompanied 1,500 passengers to their deaths at the bottom of the Atlantic. The name of the ship was of course, the H.M.S. TITANIC [sic].

ORIGINS: Sends chills down your spine, doesn’t it? Ah, but it’s only a ghost story — there never was a mummy (cursed or otherwise) on the RMS Titanic.

First of all, the tale is logically inconsistent. One of the few names quoted in this piece is that of Helena Blavatsky, a well-known occultist of the period. We’re told the dreaded Princess of Amen-Ra was purchased in Luxor, Egypt, by four foolish young Englishmen “in the late 1890s,” yet later in the same piece

Mummy

we’re informed of Helena Blavatsky’s dire pronouncements made to the private collector who supposedly had possession of the mummy right before it was shipped on the Titanic. These claims cannot both be true, because Helena Blavatsky died of influenza in 1891, but the Titanic‘s first and only voyage didn’t take place until 1912.

As for the facts of the matter, in 1985, Charles Haas, president of the national Titanic Historical Society, gained access to the ship’s cargo manifest and cargo diagrams. Though the cargo included raw feathers, linen, straw, hatter’s fur, tissue, auto parts, leather, rabbit hair, elastics, hair nets and refrigerating apparatus, not so much as one mummy was listed. Speaking to the legend that a cursed mummy was on board, Haas said, “The cargo manifest throws those myths right out the window.” Other experts have come to the same conclusion: no mummy — least of all one “of the vengeful Princess of Amen-Ra” — was shipped aboard the Titanic. (Of course, the fact that the ship’s manifest listed no gold and no insurance claims were filed for valuable gems hasn’t stopped people from believing that those objects went down with the Titanic as well.) Note that “Amen-Ra” isn’t the name of a place; it’s the name of an Egyptian god, one whose name means “the hidden one”. He was seen as the creator of all things and, with his consort Mut and their son the moon-god Khonshu, was worshipped in the great temples of Luxor and Karnak.

In fact, the mummy to which this story refers (which was actually just the coffin lid, not the mummy, of the Priestess of Amun) never left the British Museum, and it is still there to this day. So how did this fanciful tale begin?

This ghost story was concocted around the turn of the century by two Englishmen named William Stead and Douglas Murray. Stead was a well-known journalist and editor who crusaded on behalf of liberal causes and created a national scandal when he published an article entitled “The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon,” describing how he was able to purchase the services of a thirteen-year-old prostitute for £5. Stead was also a believer in mysticism and spiritualism who consulted mediums, investigated psychic phenomena, and published a related periodical. We don’t know much about Murray — he’s been described as an “Egyptologist” and as the man who shipped the mummy in question to London in the first place, although he was probably neither.

Stead and Murray crafted an elaborate horror story about a mummy that was brought to England and set up in the drawing room of an acquaintance of theirs. The morning after the mummy arrived, they claimed, everything breakable in the room was destroyed. The mummy was moved from room to room within the house, but each move resulted in the same destruction of all the breakable objects at hand.

Wherever the mummy went, it brought sickness, death and destruction to its owner. Sometime after Stead and Murray invented their mummy tale, they were visiting the First Egyptian Room of the British Museum and noticed the coffin lid of the Priestess of Amun. They concocted yet another story that the look of terror and anguish in the face depicted on the coffin lid indicated that the coffin’s original occupant was a tormented soul, and her evil spirit was now loose in the world. Stead and Murray told their fanciful tale to eager newspaper reporters who — then as now — weren’t about to let the truth get in the way of a sensationally good story. The two stories were conflated into one and spread widely, and the Priestess of Amun came to be identified as the mummy whose mortal remains wreaked havoc wherever they were stored.

This ghost story made the leap from London to the Titanic after William Stead went down with the ill-fated ship on 15 April 1912. Stead was traveling to America at President Taft’s request to address a peace conference, and he took delight in relating his “cursed mummy” tale to Titanic passengers. He reportedly defied superstition by starting his narrative at a dinner party on Friday, the 12th of April, and drew it out so that he concluded the tale just after midnight on the 13th. A few days after the Titanic‘s sinking, one of the survivors recounted Stead’s “cursed mummy” tale in an interview with the New York World, and eventually the ghost story Stead and Murray invented, Stead’s presence aboard the Titanic, and reports of Stead’s having related the mummy tale to Titanic passengers became jumbled together, producing a new legend about an actual mummy aboard the Titanic.